Current Vacancies at MACCS
Associate Professor or Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
The Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (MACCS) is a research centre funded by the Australian Research Council since January 1 2000 for the purposes of carrying out research and PhD supervision in cognitive science with a special emphasis on three broad domains of cognition (Psycholinguistics, Visual Cognition, and Cognitive Neuropsychiatry) and a developing interest in another (Action). The centre currently has 31 full-time research staff, 37 doctoral students and 3 full-time administrative support staff. Lab facilities include MEG, ERP, eye-movement recording, action recording and a high-performance computer cluster for computational modelling.
The centre has a very active seminar program and visitor program and is international in character (about half of our doctoral students have come to us from overseas). A full description of MACCS and its activities is at http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/
This position has been awarded to MACCS as part of Macquarie Universities Concentrations of Research Excellence (CORE) program, described at
http://www.research.mq.edu.au/excellenceWe are seeking to appoint someone with an outstanding record of publication, of successful PhD supervision, and of procuring external grants.
Appointments made under Macquarie's CORE program have
- generous negotiable relocation funding
- generous negotiable research startup funding
- a rapid and flexible appointment procedure
- reduced teaching loads for an initial period of the appointment
- an allocation of PhD scholarships under the MQRES scheme, which includes fee remission for nonAustralasian PhD students: see http://www.research.mq.edu.au/students/scholarships/pages/MQRES
Macquarie University also has a unique and extensive set of internal grant schemes. Previous CORE appointees have been very successful in obtaining funding from these internal schemes, which are described at http://www.research.mq.edu.au/researchers/funding/internal
To apply for this position please visit http://www.jobs.mq.edu.au/ and apply for position Ref. 21367 Cognitive Science