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August 27, 2025

**Job Description**
Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the Bendor Lab at the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London, led by Prof. Daniel Bendor. The lab investigates how memories are prioritized for long-term storage via hippocampal replay and the hippocampus’s role in cognition, including memory consolidation and predictive coding. This role involves using state-of-the-art experimental approaches such as behavioural experiments with chronic Neuropixel recordings and optogenetic tools in rodents to study cortico-hippocampal interactions. The successful candidate will also perform data analysis using MATLAB or Python and various lab procedures.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Relevant laboratory experience
• Experience working with rodent behaviour (essential)
• Home Office personal License (desirable)
• Techniques such as electrophysiology (desirable)
• Immunohistochemistry (desirable)
• Microscopy (desirable)
• Experience in data analysis in MATLAB/Python (desirable)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Neuroscience
• Molecular Biology
• Physiology
• Medicine
• Related field
BSc or equivalent qualification

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• Relevant laboratory experience
Other:
• Experience working with rodent behaviour is essential

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Experience
Experience Required: • Relevant laboratory experience Other: • Experience working with rodent behaviour is essential
Work Level
Masters
Employment Type
Full-time, Research Job, Temporary
Salary
Benefits: 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 6 closure days), Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme, Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE), Cycle to work scheme, Season ticket loan, Immigration loan, Relocation scheme for certain posts, On-Site nursery, On-site gym, Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay, Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service, Discounted medical insurance
Details
Full-time / Temporary Duration: 12 months Remote Work: No Campus-based
School / Department / Center / Lab
• Bendor Lab • Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience
Supervisor(s)
Prof. Daniel Bendor
Supervisor Email
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University College London (UCL)
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