Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science; F​/M

Overview

The Paris Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau is an internationally renowned institute dedicated to advancing understanding of the brain and improving brain health across the whole spectrum of neurological and psychiatric disorders. It is home to 29 research teams bringing together over 1000 personnel, including 150 tenured researchers, 200 technical staff and 300 students and post‑docs. The Institute is highly multidisciplinary with expertise including basic neuroscience, clinical neurology, population neuroscience, mathematics and computer science.

It has 12 cutting‑edge core facilities for data generation across various scales and modalities (genomics, proteomics, imaging, behaviour…). The Institute is located on the campus of the Pitié‑Salpêtrière hospital, in downtown Paris, the largest hospital in Europe for brain disorders and many hospital clinicians are also investigators of the Institute.

As part of its scientific strategy development plan, Paris Brain Institute has recently launched an ambitious centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data science, currently gathering about 100 people with the objective of scaling up to 150. The aim of the Centre is to make the Paris Brain Institute an international hub in AI and data science for neuroscience, resulting in disruptive methodological advances and in major breakthroughs in understanding, preventing, and treating brain disorders.

The Paris Brain Institute AI Centre is housed in a modern building, a 5‑minute walk from the main building.

The Paris Brain Institute seeks to recruit Junior Group Leaders in the fields of AI, data science and computational sciences to address key challenges in brain health and neuroscience. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI and data science for omics data
• AI for drug discovery and repositioning
• Computational modelling and AI for cognitive science
• Data science approaches for epidemiology
• Integration of multimodal data
• “Neuro
  
  AI” research at the interface of AI and neuroscience
• Validation and benchmarking of AI systems

• The Junior Group Leader is a principal investigator recruited for five years. They will be offered a competitive salary.
• The Junior Group Leader will be awarded an attractive start‑up package for kick‑starting their group, allowing for the recruitment of personnel, travel expenses and the purchase of computers.
• In addition, the Junior Group Leader is encouraged to apply for external funding to further develop their group and demonstrate their ability to secure competitive funding. To that purpose, they will be supported by the Paris Brain Institute grants office.
• Junior Group Leaders will be offered mentoring support, including advice on grant opportunities, integration within the Institute, and career development, including potential paths toward permanent positions.

Paris Brain Institute is supported by a private not‑for‑profit foundation working in synergy with French public bodies, and affiliated with Sorbonne Université, CNRS and Inserm. It also has two joint research teams with Inria, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Paris Brain Institute is associated with clinical neuroscience departments (neurology, psychiatry, rehabilitation, etc.) of the Pitié‑Salpêtrière hospital (AP‑HP), as well as with a large network of public and industrial partners.

Paris Brain Institute is dedicated to fundamental, translational and clinical research in neuroscience, and fosters improved quality of care and education. Moreover, a clinical investigation centre and a start‑up incubator are hosted in‑house. The Paris Brain Institute is located alongside 13 National Reference Centres for rare neurological diseases at the Pitié‑Salpêtrière. Paris Brain Institute is part of an international network of partnerships promoting research, mobility and knowledge exchange around the world.

It is a founding member of the CURE‑ND European alliance bringing together leading institutions from France, Germany (DZNE), the UK (UK‑DRI) and Belgium (Mission Lucidity).

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