The Dynamic Embodied Brain Laboratory (DEB Lab) at the International Center for Primate Brain Research (ICPBR) at ION/CEBSIT, Shanghai, seeks to hire a Postdoctoral Fellow with experience in multivariate data analysis including electrophysiological data analysis (spike and LFP), with an interest to analyze unique concurrent electrophysiology and fMRI (ePhys/fMRI) data (e.g., Nature 2012; Nature 2021), and with the possibility to also contribute to the acquisition of novel experimental data. 

The DEB Lab examine the structural and functional organization of neural pathways engendering subjective awareness of feelings in humans. This examination is made in non-human primates (NHP) with specific aims relating to (1) how internal bodily states (interoception) are represented in the brain, (2) how interoception embodies emotion and shapes cognitive processes, and (3) how interoception contributes to functional network dynamics in a context that may serve access consciousness processes (Frontiers 2019). The DEB Lab combines cutting-edge methods including high-resolution tract tracing, electrophysiology, fMRI, optogenetics, and single cell Patch-Seq, with a particular interest for the von Economo neuron (Neuron 2012). Over the years, the DEB Lab has acquired unique ePhys/fMRI data that contribute to our understanding of the fundamental body-brain-mind interactions. 

To get more information, please directly contact Qian Liang (qian.liang@icpbr.ac.cn) or Henry Evrard (henry.evrard@icpbr.ac.cn), c.c. hr@ion.ac.cn.