[CogSci] Postdoc opportunity: infant exploration

[Dean D'Souza]

Dear colleagues,
My lab at Cardiff University is looking to hire the first of 2-3 full-time postdocs.
Advert and application details here<https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP802/research-associate>.
We’re asking: how do exploration and learning self-organise in the first years of life?
The project combines naturalistic and experimental infant research with rich multimodal methods, including head-mounted cameras, head-mounted and remote eye tracking, inertial sensors, fNIRS, and computational modelling.
This would be a great fit for someone excited by big theoretical questions, rich developmental data, and the opportunity to help shape a new, process-based science of early development. Depending on your expertise and interests, you might:

  *   characterise developmental changes in exploratory behaviour
  *   model exploratory dynamics using machine learning, information theory, or dynamical systems approaches
  *   examine how neural coordination supports curiosity, uncertainty reduction, and prediction

The post is full-time and fixed term until 14 April 2028.
Informal enquiries are very welcome: DSouzaD2 at cardiff.ac.uk<mailto:DSouzaD2 at cardiff.ac.uk>
Please note that the application deadline is currently listed as Friday 29 May. This is a provisional deadline because HR are changing software systems on that date. I expect that we will be able to extend the deadline once the new system is in place.
Best wishes,
Dean


Dr Dean D'Souza



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School of Psychology

College of Biomedical and Life Sciences

Cardiff University



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