The Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF solicits applications for post-doctoral fellowships, with the goal of bringing theoretical approaches to bear on neuroscience. Applicants should have a strong background and education in mathematics, theoretical or experimental physics, engineering, or computer science and commitment to a future research career in neuroscience. Prior biological or neuroscience training is not required. The Sloan-Swartz Center offers opportunities to combine theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding the operation of the intact brain. Young scientists with strong theoretical backgrounds will receive scientific training in experimental approaches to understanding the operation of the intact brain. They will learn to integrate their theoretical abilities with these experimental approaches to form a mature research program in integrative neuroscience. The research undertaken by the trainees may be theoretical, experimental, or a combination. Some idea of the range of possible projects may be obtained from this sample of projects of particular current interest to the Sloan-Swartz resident faculty.
            
TO APPLY, please send a curriculum vitae, a statement of previous research and research goals, up to three relevant publications, and have three letters of recommendation sent to us at sloan-info@phy.ucsf.edu. For those with little or no background in neuroscience, it may seem difficult to discuss your research goals, so here are some suggestions. We understand that you may know little or nothing about the field you are proposing to enter, but it is important for you to express your reasons for wanting to enter this field, as well as to give some sense of the sorts of problems you imagine might interest you. It would also be helpful to discuss any efforts you may have made to broaden your education in this direction. Also, neuroscience is a field in which even theoretical work is typically closely tied to experimental data and its analysis, so it may be helpful for you to discuss any experience you have dealing with experimental data (though again, such experience is not a requirement for admission.