Medtronic Chair in Neuroengineering

Within the framework of an EPFL initiative to promote groundbreaking translational research in neuroprosthetics, neuroengineering, and neuroscience, EPFL’s School of Life Sciences and School of Engineering invite applications for a faculty position at the level of tenure-track assistant professor, although more senior candidates will also be considered. The Medtronic Chair will join the striving community of EPFL’s new Geneva campus, which consists of the newly founded Wyss Center (http://epfl.ch/) and Center for Neuroprosthetics (http://cnp.epfl.ch/) in addition to being home to Europe’s largest neuroscience initiative, the Human Brain project (https://humanbrainproject.eu/). EPFL seeks outstanding individuals - neuroscientists, neuroengineers, or clinician-scientists - using state-of-the-art neuroengineering approaches to investigate neurological or psychiatric diseases with strong, laboratory-based or clinical research programs. Areas of interest include, but not limited to, neuromodulation, deep brain stimulation, cortical recording and stimulation, closed-loop control, optogenetics to understand diseases, neural interfaces, electrode design and modeling. The main clinical research fields include epilepsy, stroke, neurodegenerative disease, and psychiatric disease.