Postdoc Opportunities in Neuroscience in Italy

This research contract is hosted by the Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome. The project sits within the self-funded research program “Robot, comportamento e cervello” , focused on the study of psychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions, with the advertised position specifically embedded in a program on cognitive functioning and individual differences. The selected researcher will work on computational neuropsychology , with a str...

The Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome is recruiting for a research contract within the self-financed project “The Predictive Brain in Action – PredBrain” . The work is centered on the study of embodied decision-making and foraging in human participants, combining experimental design, online data collection, and computational analysis. The successful candidate will contribute to the full research pipeline: designing and running beh...

This research contract is hosted by the Institute of Biophysics (IBF), National Research Council of Italy , at its Palermo secondary site. The selected researcher will join a project on the realistic modelling of physiological and pathological brain conditions, working within a multidisciplinary environment that connects biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The position focuses on multiscale, biophysically detailed, data-driven modelling of single neurons and neuronal networks , with par...

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Biofisica (sede secondaria di Palermo) is offering two research contracts within the self-funded project “Modellazione realistica delle condizioni fisiologiche e patologiche del cervello” . The work is based in Palermo and is part of a broader neuroscience research effort supported by the Italian Neuroscience Research Infrastructure. The selected researcher will work on real-scale models of the human and mouse hippocampus , focusing on their constr...

Postdoctoral Researcher in AI for Social Cognition The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) and the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS) at the University of Genoa are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the AIGO unit in Genoa, Italy. The project focuses on human-aligned cognitive systems and computational models of visual attention, social understanding, cross-modal learning and incremental learning. Research applications include social ro...

Postdoctoral position available within the ERC project COST-X at the University of Turin , Italy. The project focuses on the incentives that motivate people to communicate cooperatively, both offline and online . The successful candidate will join a research team working on this topic in an English-speaking environment. Research areas / keywords: cooperative communication, incentives, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, economics, and related fields. Eligibility: applicants s...

Upcoming postdoctoral and predoctoral opportunities are being prepared by the Colombi and Leonzino labs in a collaborative project based at IGM-CNR in Pavia and IN-CNR at Humanitas Research Hospital in Rozzano, Italy . The research focuses on organelle communication , especially membrane contact sites between organelles, and how these processes control organelle dynamics and function. The project also investigates how disruption of these mechanisms contributes to neurodegenerative disease , incl...

Michael Lombardo’s LAND lab at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) is advertising a postdoctoral position in neurodevelopmental disorders , with a focus on autism stratification across multiple levels. The role is based in Rovereto (TN) at CNCS@UniTn - Trento and is described as a collaboration contract . This opportunity is especially relevant for researchers with interests in neuroscience , psychology , medical science , and autism research. The post highlights the goal of finding ways t...