Postdoctoral Researcher in Multimodal Human Sensing and Advanced Behavioral Data Analysis — EPFL
- Location
- Lausanne
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 82 days ago
Role overview
Mission
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project on human motivation, stress physiology, immersive behavioral testing, and multimodal data analysis
The Laboratory of Behavioral Genetics at EPFL, led by Prof.
- Mission
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project on human motivation, stress physiology, immersive behavioral testing, and multimodal data analysis
- Main responsibilities
- The postdoctoral researcher will lead the technical and quantitative core of the project. will include:
Main responsibilities
- Main responsibilities
- The postdoctoral researcher will lead the technical and quantitative core of the project. will include:
- Developing, implementing, optimizing and troubleshooting immersive behavioral tasks in close interaction with the PI and lab members.
- Integrating behavioral task events with physiological acquisition systems, movement tracking, positioning data and experimental logs.
- Establishing robust acquisition, synchronization, calibration and quality-control procedures across multimodal data streams.
- Troubleshooting software, hardware, sensors, timing, synchronization, data acquisition and experimental workflow issues.
- Extracting and analyzing multimodal behavioral features from head, hand, body and positional tracking data.
- Processing and analyzing physiological signals, including ECG / HRV, electrodermal activity, respiration and autonomic stress indices. Develo
Additional details
- In line with standard EPFL procedures, the contract is issued on a one-year basis and renewable annually , subject to satisfactory progress and institutional regulations. Project background
- The postdoctoral researcher will lead the technical and quantitative core of the project. Responsibilities will include:
- Processing and analyzing physiological signals, including ECG / HRV, electrodermal activity, respiration and autonomic stress indices.
Notes and original content
- In line with standard EPFL procedures, the contract is issued on a one-year basis and renewable annually , subject to satisfactory progress and institutional regulations.
- Project background
- The postdoctoral researcher will lead the technical and quantitative core of the project.
- Responsibilities will include:
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