I am looking for an enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher to join us at GIGA–ULiège and work on CON²PHYS and related projects.

What is CON²PHYS?

Neuroscience often assumes that researchers using the same scientific terms and studying the same data are describing the same phenomena. CON²PHYS – CONceptual CONsistency in electroPHYSiology – asks how often that assumption is actually true. Spoiler alert: it is not true!

In the project, independent teams analyze the same electrophysiology dataset and answer the same multiple-choice questions using methods they consider appropriate. We modeled our study on this landmark fMRI paper from the Schonber group. Our pilot studies revealed striking differences in how experienced researchers define, detect, and interpret even basic phenomena such as hippocampal ripples, spike-train interactions, and functional connectivity.

CON²PHYS is now closing in on being a final project, and this is where your help would be needed. The project sits at the intersection of systems neuroscience, metascience, open science, and large-scale scientific collaboration. It is run as an “affiliate” project to the International Brain Laboratory.

Learn more about CON²PHYS

Read about the pilot results in The Transmitter

Who are we looking for?

The most important qualities are enthusiasm, intellectual curiosity, independence, and a genuine interest in the questions behind the project.

The position may be particularly appealing to someone interested in one or more of the following:

• systems or computational neuroscience;
• analysis of electrophysiological data;
• reproducibility, metascience, or open science;
• collaborative and community-driven research.

Experience with electrophysiology or quantitative data analysis would be useful, but candidates with adjacent backgrounds who are excited by the project are also welcome.

The environment

The position will be based in the Chini Lab at the GIGA Institute, University of Liège.

The position is supported by a Crédit sectoriel de Recherche – FSR 2026 from the University of Liège.

Interested?

Please email Mattia Chini at mchini@uliege.be with:

• your CV;
• a brief message explaining why the project interests you and why you would like to join the lab.

Formal cover letters are not necessary at this initial stage. A clear and genuine expression of interest is more useful than a highly polished LLM-generated application package.