Postdoctoral position in Design and validate instrumental measures of motor performance in healthy and clinical populations
Italy
*Commitment \& contract**: Postdoctoral position for 12 months (renewable for another 12 months) from December 1st, 2026*
*Location:* *Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Ferrara \- Italy*
*Step into a world of endless possibilities, together let’s leave something for the future!*
At IIT, we are committed to advancing human\-centered Science and Technology to address the most urgent societal challenges of our era. We foster excellence in both fundamental and applied research, spanning fields such as neuroscience and cognition, humanoid technologies and robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and material sciences, offering a truly interdisciplinary scientific experience. Our approach integrates cutting\-edge tools and technology, empowering researchers to push the limits of knowledge and innovation. With us, your curiosity will know no bounds.
We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities and fostering diversity in all its forms, creating an inclusive environment. We value the unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives of our people. By embracing diversity, we believe science can achieve its fullest potential.
THE ROLE
You will be working in a multicultural and multi\-disciplinary group, where neuroscientists and engineers experts collaborate, each with their own expertise, to carry out common research.
The *Multiscale Brain Communication* Research unit is coordinated by *Prof. Luciano Fadiga*, who has extensive experience in neuroscience.
The research focuses on *exploring the neural control of movements in health and disease*. This includes the study of how to best design rehabilitation protocols for stroke patients and to use motor control knowledge to stratify patients and allow personalized treatments.
Within the team, your main responsibilities will be:
- Design and validate instrumental measures of motor performance in healthy and clinical populations.
- Design and test hardware\-software solutions to integrate and then analyze multimodal dataset.
- A PhD in *neuroscience*, including *biomedical* *engineering*, and similar disciplines
- Documented experience on the *complex multimodal data acquisition and analyses*
- A strong publication record
- The ability to properly report, organize and publish research data
- Documented experience in coaching junior scientists
- Good command in spoken and written English
- Experience on *motion capture, human invasive and non\-invasive neurophysiological recordings*
- Knowledge of *basic programming languages* *(e.g., Python, C\+\+)*
- Good communication skills
- Strong problem solving attitude
- High motivation to learn
- Spirit of innovation and creativity
- Good in time and priority management
- Ability to work in a challenging and international environment
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a highly interdisciplinary environment
- A yearly gross salary of 30\.000,00 euro
- Private health care coverage depending on your role and contract
- Candidates from abroad or Italian citizens who have carried scientific research activity permanently abroad and meet specific requirements, may be entitled to a deduction from taxable income of up to 90% from 6 to 13 years.
*Application’s deadline: October 6th, 2026*
*To discover more about life at IIT, visit the dedicated section here:**https://www.iit.it/en/work\-at\-iit*
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