Postdoctoral Positions in Computational Neuroscience & AI

Mission

The A.

Mathis Group for Computational Neuroscience and AI (CNAI), led by Professor Alexander Mathis, is seeking two postdoctoral fellows to join our team working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience.

Our research is built around three intertwined questions: how to measure and understand behavior with AI, how brains and embodied agents learn to control the body, and how the brain builds a sense of its body through proprioception.

We develop widely-used open-source tools (e.g., DeepLabCut), train biomechanically realistic embodied agents (e.g., MuscleMimic, Kinesis, Arnold), and build AI-based models of sensorimotor processing.

We are recruiting two postdocs:

Main duties and responsibilities

For both positions:

Position 1: Computer Vision & AI for Behavior Analysis

Position 2: Embodied AI

Profile

Common requirements:

Position 1 — additional desirable expertise:

computer vision, video understanding, action recognition, multimodal/vision-language models, pose estimation, or large-scale self-supervised learning. Familiarity with neuroscience, or ethology is a plus.

Position 2 — additional desirable expertise:

reinforcement learning, imitation learning, optimal control, dynamical systems, or related ML areas; experience with physics simulators (MuJoCo). Familiarity with motor neuroscience and biomechanics is a plus.

We offer

Informations

How to apply

Applications should be submitted exclusively through the EPFL website. Postdoctoral applications should consist of:

For any questions, please reach out by email to alexander.mathis@epfl.ch with the subject line "Postdoc Application 2026 – [Position 1 / Position 2 / Both]". Applications will be processed as they arrive until the positions are filled.

Additional information about our research can be found at https://cnai.epfl.ch.

EPFL is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.