We are offering a 3-year postdoctoral research fellow post in association with an ESRC grant investigating skilled reading in Arabic. The project involves a computational component, a megastudy, and a set of eye-tracking experiments. The fellow will be based in Prof Kathy Rastle's lab at Royal Holloway, University of London, but will be engaging frequently with co-investigators Prof Denis Drieghe (Southampton) and Dr Sami Boudelaa (UAE). Join us!
Application deadline: 7 November 2025
The successful candidate will join the Educational Neurosciences and Developmental Disorders (ENDD) research group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) and conduct a PhD within the READEXP project, characterizing the reading exposome, by identifying exposure measures that affect reading performance after accounting for potential genetic confounds.
The successful candidate will join the Brain Rhythms and Cognition group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) and conduct a PhD within the PRO-LISTEN project, investigating the neural and computational mechanisms supporting speech comprehension in challenging listening conditions.
Job description: Designing and conducting experimental research in cognitive neuroscience; Deploying and refining existing computational models of perceptual learning; Writing research papers in collaboration with the PI, aiming to publish at top-tier journals; Dissemination of results at international scientific conferences; Assisting in the supervision of Master students.