You have:

• a PhD degree preferably in systems neuroscience or related field, with a specialization in optical neuroscience techniques;
• significant experimental experience in the field of the neuroscience of perception and sensory cortical processing, animal behavior, neural data analytics and/or computational neuroscience, as testified by outstanding publications;
• strong quantitative and programming skills and demonstrable affinity with theoretical neuroscience and neural theories of perception and consciousness;
• experience with academic teaching in the subject field;
• fluency and excellent communication in English, both written and spoken;

You should be able to teach in the Dutch language after several years of employment. In due course, you are expected to sculpt a vision for your future research.

Within the Faculty of Science, newly appointed Assistant Professors follow a didactic training trajectory, which should lead up to completion of a certificate qualifying yourself for academic teaching (basiskwalificatie onderwijs, BKO) within two years.

SILS expects its staff to acquire sufficient fluency in the Dutch language within three years of the appointment.

We offer a temporary contract for 38 hours a week, preferably starting on 1May 2021, for the duration of 24 months. A permanent contract subsequently follows if we assess your performance positively.

The salary, depending on relevant work experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be between €3,746 to € 5,127 (scale 11) gross per month, based on a fulltime contract (38 hours a week). This is exclusive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

Are you curious about our extensive package of secondary employment benefits like our excellent opportunities for study and development? Take a look at Working at the Faculty of Science.  

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

Faculty of Science - Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 7,000, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) is an institute that belongs to the Faculty of Science of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Its approximately 230 scientists and staff members work in 16 research groups that perform excellent research, centred on four themes:

1. Green Life Sciences
2. Cell & Systems Biology
3. Neurosciences
4. Microbiology

Do you have questions about this vacancy? Or do you want to know more about our organisation? Please contact:

• Prof. Cyriel Pennartz
  or
• Dr Umberto Olcese
  T: +31 (0)20 525 7618