Senior Computational Neuroscientist - Neural Simulations HPC

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lsuHarahan (LA)

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The Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at LSU seeks a senior staff scientist with a PhD in Physics, Engineering, or related field and a minimum of three years postdoctoral experience in a biologically related area. The successful candidate will collaborate with Dr. Carmen Canavier on computationally intensive projects and help develop cross-department collaborations. Responsibilities include leading large-scale neural simulations, using Neuron/Netpyne, Python, Linux, and HPC/SLURM, and

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