PostDoc Computational and Experimental Approaches to Visual Physiology. Ref: IOB 170

The Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) seeks a highly motivated PostDoc. IOB is a research institute combining basic and clinical research. Its mission is to drive innovations in understanding vision and its diseases and develop new therapies for vision loss. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your abilities challenged, and your knowledge expanded.

We are recruiting a PostDoc in the Quantitative Visual Physiology group at IOB. The Quantitative Visual Physiology group at IOB sits at a rare intersection: access to human, primate, and rodent retinal tissue combined with the quantitative tools to make sense of it, and close collaboration with clinicians at the Augenspital Basel. If you want to ask fundamental questions about how the visual system encodes information and how that knowledge can be used to help patients, this is the place to do it.

In this role, you will develop and lead projects related to the physiology of vision using experimental approaches including electrophysiology, data analysis, and computational approaches. Possible methods include ex vivo electrophysiology of human, primate, pig, and mouse retina, in vivo recordings in mice, electroretinograms on mice and humans, and psychophysics using virtual reality headsets. The position combines experimental approaches with the necessary data analysis and computational interpretation of the results including population decoding, computational modeling of retinal circuits, and biophysical modelling. One possible research direction is to study the biophysics of the signal generation of the electroretinogram and how approaches using multielectrode recordings and novel light stimulus designs could improve the signal-to-noise ratio.