Postdoc Position: Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Technology at the Donders Institute

1. Introduction

Join the RE:HOME project as a junior postdoctoral researcher and help develop smart, personalised home‑rehabilitation technology for children with neurological conditions. Work with leading international partners to create real impact in healthcare.

2. Job description

As a junior postdoctoral researcher you will participate in a consortium project called ’Smart technologies for personalised home care for neurological paediatric patients (RE:HOME)’. This project, involving partners from France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands, is funded by Interreg North-West Europe (NWE), a European Territorial Cooperation programme contributing to a better quality of life and well-being of all NWE citizens. The aim of the RE:HOME project is to build and test a rehabilitation platform that enables home rehabilitation in a safe and controlled way through personalised feedback and monitoring of health data, rehabilitation progress and quality of life. For more information, see here.

Within this project, you will be involved in developing algorithms for monitoring and assessing perception and motor behaviour in the hospital and home setting, with an emphasis on sensorimotor integration within the perception-action cycle. Patient studies will be performed to explain human functioning, understand disorders and test new technologies.

You will collaborate closely with colleagues from the Donders Institute and the Sint Maartenskliniek, a rehabilitation hospital in Nijmegen and a partner within the consortium. Your responsibilities may also include some management, mentoring (PhD, MSc and BSc), and teaching-related tasks.

3. Profile

• You have a PhD in a relevant field (e.g. sensorimotor neuroscience, human movement sciences, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience).
• You have a demonstrable interest and experience in probabilistic and/or other modelling approaches to sensorimotor control.
• You have good social, communication and organisational skills.
• You are a team player.
• Experience with behavioural and patient studies would be useful, and experience supervising students at various levels would be advantageous. 

4. We are

The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class interfaculty research centre that houses more than 700 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: 1. Language and communication, 2. Perception, action and decision-making, 3. Development and lifelong plasticity, 4. Natural computing and neurotechnology. Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of neuroscience research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute has been assessed by an international evaluation committee as ‘excellent’ and recognised as a ‘very stimulating environment for top researchers, as well as for young talent’. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multidisciplinary and supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute.

This postdoctoral research position will be embedded in the sensorimotor research group of Prof. Pieter Medendorp. The group’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms of perceptual processing, motor control and sensorimotor integration, building on theory, methods, and findings of psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and related disciplines.

5. We offer

• We will give you a temporary employment contract of 22 months.
• Your salary within salary scale 11 depends on your previous education and number of years of (relevant) work experience. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.
• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus. 
• You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20. 

6. Practical information and applying

You can apply only via the button below. Address your letter of application to Pieter Medendorp. In the application form, you will find which documents you need to include with your application. We look forward to receiving your application.

The first interviews will take place on Thursday 16 April. Any second interview will take place on Wednesday 22 April. You will preferably start your employment on 1 September 2026.  

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