Western Sydney University is a modern, forward-thinking, research-led university, located at the heart of Australia’s fastest-growing and economically significant region, Western Sydney. Boasting 11 campuses – many in Western Sydney CBD locations – and more than 200,000 alumni, 49,500 students and 3,500 staff, the University has 14 Schools with an array of well-designed programs and degrees carefully structured to meet the demands of future industry.

The University is ranked in the top two per cent of universities worldwide, and as a research leader, over 85 per cent of the University’s assessed research is rated at ‘World Standard’ or above.
 
The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development is an interdisciplinary research institute of Western Sydney. The vision for the Institute is to optimise human interaction and wellbeing across the lifespan. To strive to solve the problems that matter most through the themes: sensing and perceiving, interacting with each other, and technologies for humans. Researchers in MARCS come from many disciplines including cognitive science, developmental psychology, language science, music science, cognitive neuroscience, and biomedical, electrical, electronic and software engineering. Further information is available from our website - http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/marcs

An exciting role is available for an energetic, creative and outcome-focused individual to use their knowledge of EEG data acquisition and analysis techniques for measuring event-related potentials and the phase and power of oscillatory activity in the time-frequency domain, preferably in conjunction with source estimation methods.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be responsible for a research stream that addresses psychological and neurophysiological bases of auditory-motor interactions and sensorimotor synchronisation, as in musical group performance and spoken conversation.

For further information about the position please refer to the attached Position Description.

This position is a Part-Time (0.8 FTE), Fixed-Term position for 3 years.

Initially the position will be located on the Bankstown Campus and move to Westmead early 2022.

Remuneration Package: Academic Level A $78,970 to $95,408 pro rata rates (comprising Salary of $66,730 to $80,621 pro rata rates, plus 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading). 

Position Enquiries: Peter Keller, via email p.keller@westernsydney.edu.au or telephone (02) 9772 6722.

Closing Date: 8:30pm, Sunday 2 May 2021.

To be eligible for this position you must provide evidence of your full-time Working Rights and be residing in Australia at time of application.