"Senior Lecturer and Professor Competitive Examinations"

Euraxess research field: Behavioural sciences; Cognitive science; Psychology

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Expected skills:

Applicants must show a strong interest in teaching as well as a high-level scientific record in accordance with UGA’s ambitions and standard. They must identify with UGA’s values, that is, being open to the world, emphasising ethics and scientific integrity, showing an interest in teamwork and being committed to the community. They should also have a sense of responsibility, in particular with regard to environmental and social issues.

Context and educational objectives:

Educational expectations

The successful candidate will join the MIASHS department of UFR SHS and teach cognitive science courses at all levels: the Bachelor’s degree in MIASHS and the Computer Science and Cognition programme of the Master’s degree in MIASHS.

Solid experience in teaching cognitive science courses is expected, particularly in relation to movement control, memory processes, spatial representation, perceptual mechanisms (vision, hearing, haptics), and metacognition.

Teaching will be approached through several methods used in cognitive science, such as behavioural studies, modeling, and neuroscience and neuropsychology studies. The successful candidate must also have proven experience in the practice and teaching of experimental methodology.

The successful candidate will strengthen the conception and management of innovative training programmes in collaboration with professional partners and in coordination with other departments of UFR SHS as well as other components of the institution.

The successful candidate will also assume significant management responsibilities at various levels: Bachelor’s, Master’s, MIASHS department, and UFR SHS.

Research project and scientific impact:

Scientific profile

The successful will be affiliated either to GIPSA-lab or LPNC. Both research laboratories require the presentation of a scientific integration project. It is expected that these research activities strengthen the collaboration between the two laboratories. The order of the laboratories is alphabetical and does not reflect priority.

GIPSA-lab – Scientific Profile:

GIPSA-lab is a joint research laboratory of CNRS and Université Grenoble Alpes. It is affiliated with CNRS's Institut des Sciences Informatiques (Institute for Computer Science) and Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales (Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences), and is primarily attached to the MSTIC and SHS clusters and secondarily to the CBS and PAGE research clusters of UGA. The laboratory conducts both theoretical and applied research in automatic control, signal and image processing, speech and language, cognition, robotics, and machine learning. As a multidisciplinary lab at the interface between the physical world, the digital world and the human, our research addresses measurements from physical, physiological, and cognitive systems. We focus on designing methodologies and algorithms for extracting, processing, and modeling information for a wide range of tasks, from perception to digital communications.

The successful candidate will develop research on the cognitive processes involved in movement control and (multi-)sensory perception, e.g., visual, auditory, or kinesthetic. Knowledge on learning, memory, and spatial perception processes is welcome, so as to broaden the lab's themes and expertise. The work will be based on experimental approaches: behavioural measurements (motion capture, eye tracking, audio or video recordings, etc.) and/or neurophysiological techniques (EEG, EMG, fMRI, MEG, TMS, tDCS, etc.) in humans, including both neurotypical and brain-injured individuals, adults and children. Experience in signal processing, multimodal data analysis, and/or mathematical and computational modeling will be considered an advantage. The successful candidate will join one of the laboratory’s research axes related to cognition (vision, movement, language), while making an original scientific contribution fostering interdisciplinary synergies within the unit.

LPNC – Scientific Profile:

The Psychology and NeuroCognition Laboratory (LPNC) is a joint research unit affiliated with CNRS (section 26 CNRS INSB and a secondary affiliation CNRS INSHS section 34) and two universities (UGA and USMB). LPNC is affiliated with two Pôles de Recherche: Humanities and Social Sciences (SHS) and Chemistry, Biology, and Health (CBS), which is justified by the interdisciplinary nature of our activities: psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive and computational neuroscience. The LPNC is structured into five thematic research teams (Body and Space, Development and Learning, Language, Consciousness, Memory & MetaCognition, Vision and Emotion), as well as a Baby Lab.

In accordance with the teaching profile, the successful candidate will conduct innovative research focused on one or more of the cognitive psychology or neuropsychology themes open to the laboratory's five affiliated teams (the project will mention the proposed affiliated team). Furthermore, particular attention will be paid to the successful candidate’s ability to find national and international funding as well as the ability to publish in good international journals in the discipline (Section 16: Psychology). An interdisciplinary approach to cognitive psychology in connection with cognitive modelling and/or cognitive neuroscience will be welcome, both at the level of interdisciplinary research at LPNC and at the level of teaching in MIASHS.

Information for candidates:

• Université Grenoble Alpes recruits on the basis of skills and makes use of all talents. It encourages applicants with disabilities to apply for teaching and research positions.
• Senior lecturers and professors are required to reside at the place where they perform their duties (Art. 5 of Decree No. 84-431 of June 6, 1984).
• HRS4R certified and committed to an OTM-R (Open, Transparent, and Merit-based Recruitment) approach, the University of Grenoble Alpes recruits on the merits of candidates and in accordance with a transparent procedure.