We
are currently looking to hire PhD students and postdocs to work in our
group. If you could please forward this message below to anyone you
think might be interested that would be great.
The aim of this project is to gain a deeper understanding
of the concept of collective cognition in social insects. We approach this
question by studying cooperative transport by groups of ants, a setting which
allows us to compare the navigational problem solving capabilities of groups of
different sizes down to single ants. High level tracking, data analysis, and theoretical considerations
are employed to draw out the connections between these organizational scales.
The
project will be performed in the Feinerman Social
Insect Behavior group which is part of the Department of Physics of
Complex
Systems in the Weizmann INstitute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. The lab
is composed of people with shared interests and highly variable
backgrounds: physics, neuroscience, biology, math, and chemistry.
If you are interested in joining our team, it would be
beneficial to have expertise in one or more of the following.
Behavioral observation
Animal cognition
Coding and Image Analysis
Analytical capabilities such as statistical mechanics,
algorithmics, and information theory.
If interested, please send an email of
interest (as a single pdf file including a letter of motivation, a short
summary of research interests, a CV, and contacts of two potential referees) to
ofer.feinerman@weizmann.ac.il