Konstantinos Tsetsos

New paper on information sampling in multialternative choice, part of the ERC @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant "INFOSAMPLE".

One of projects emerging from the first semi-gigantic MEG dataset we collected as the "Irrationality" Lab in Hamburg, around COVID lockdowns.

Exciting PhD and postdoc opportunities on the cognitive neuroscience of language at Uni Geneva!!!

With special thanks to Christoph Korn and @sgluth.bsky.social for serving on the committee and ensuring everything ran so smoothly.

A seismic wave of applause marked the end of Maryam’s PhD journey, the end of the beginning. Congratulations Dr @maryamtohidi.bsky.social !!!

Maryam’s brother, who went the extra mile (in fact, miles) so that he could attend the defence online, crowned this moment with a few gentle and proud words, heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time.

At the end, surrounded by her friends, Maryam rose to reflect on the difficult days she and her family back in Iran had been through in the last few weeks.

Maryam breezed through her presentation with ease and answered some difficult questions with confidence (even used the whiteboard to sketch some answers!).

Last Thursday was a day that will be hard to forget.

Despite the characteristically cold Hanseatic morning, the lecture theatre at the UKE was buzzing with people who came to watch Maryam Tohidi, my very first PhD student, defending her work.

Bonus: Research visits to the University of Oxford, where 50% of Sean's Cognition, Anatomy & Neural Networks lab is based.
🔗 Full details & how to apply: lnkd.in/ekrSTE9g
We strongly encourage applications from candidates from low socioeconomic and under-represented backgrounds.

Training &Environment
• Experimental design, acquisition, and analysis of human OPM-MEG experiments
• Neuroanatomy and physiology - Analysing prefrontal gradients across species
• Computational modelling of behaviour and neural circuits
• Neuro-AI modelling integrating species-specific neuroanatomy

This project develops a mechanistic cross-species account by studying how stimulus structure interacts with prefrontal cortical architecture, combining human OPM-MEG, anatomy-informed neuro-AI models, and comparative analyses.

Mice often integrate evidence optimally, while humans show recency biases. Are mice really better decision-makers—or do experiments engage different brain systems across species?

Project: Cross-species mechanisms of evidence accumulation along prefrontal cortical gradients.

Jointly supervised (50/50) by Dr Seán Froudist-Walsh and Prof. Konstantinos Tsetsos.

🎓Fully-funded PhD studentship in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience!!!

Join @seanfw.bsky.social and myself at @tcddublin.bsky.social for a PhD at the intersection of cutting-edge cognitive neuroscience (OPM-MEG) and neuro-AI.
🗓 Deadline: 5 Feb 2026

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Research Fellow in Decision Neuroscience (x2 Posts) at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Apply for the Research Fellow in Decision Neuroscience (x2 Posts) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

Whether you are a PhD candidate finishing up, a recent grad, or a seasoned postdoc, if you have strong expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience, we want to see your application!

#CognitiveNeuroscience #PostdocJobs #MEG #EEG #ERC #TrinityCollegeDublin

🗓 Deadline: January 30th 🔗

🇮🇪☘️ Beyond the lab, you will be based in the heart of Dublin, one of the most beautiful, multicultural, and welcoming cities in the world. Ireland offers a remarkably stable and liberal academic environment and a forward-thinking society, making it a fantastic place to live and thrive.

🚀 Research independence and leadership opportunity: You will lead the neuroimaging side of our lab and help forge its integration with our nearly 20 years (🧙‍♂️) of world-class expertise in the cognitive science of decision-making.

🌱 Collaborative mentorship in computational modelling & theory building in the realm of cognitive and decision sciences.

You will have access to:
🔬 Cutting-edge OPM-MEG with concurrent EEG & eye-tracking.
🧠 Adjacent state-of-the-art labs, including two fMRI scanners.
🤝 A warm, collegial, international and top-tier research environment.

This is a unique opportunity to work in one of Europe's premier hubs for brain research, situated within one of the world's most historic and elite universities 🏛, a proud member of the LERU network .

We are building a world-class team at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN) to push the boundaries of decision neuroscience using OPM-MEG.

⏳ Just over 2 weeks left to apply! ⏳

We are looking for talented Cognitive Neuroscientists to join our team at Trinity College Dublin for postdoc positions funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPV296/r...

www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...

Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients How do large-scale brain networks interact to enable cognition? Correlated oscillations, a mechanism for inter-areal interactions, can be expressed as phase coherence or amplitude co-fluctuations. Whi...

New Preprint alert 🚨
“Inter-areal coupling for cognition through coincident oscillatory transients” together with
@ycaoneuro.bsky.social
@ktsetsos.bsky.social
@donnerlab.bsky.social &
Andreas Engel
#MEG #neuroscience #bioRxiv

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧠 We’re hiring!
Join the Irrationality Lab @ Trinity College Dublin for ERC-funded postdoc positions in Decision Neuroscience.

Work with OPM-MEG + computational modeling to uncover how the brain shapes, maintains and revises preferences.

Apply & info: www.ktsetsoslab.net/_files/ugd/0...
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Decision Making This book offers reports on new findings relating to mechanisms of decisions, modeling of decision making and impaired decision making upon diseases.

🚀Our new chapter is out, “Perspectives on the Mechanistic Underpinnings of Choice Biases,” written with @ktsetsos.bsky.social and published in Decision Making: Mechanisms and Applications (edited by Carsten Murawski, Ulrich Ettinger, and Bert Heinrichs): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence Mounting evidence indicates that decisions emerge from a competition between populations of neurons encoding the different choice options. Theoretical models propose that the outcome of this competiti...

🚨New preprint on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social:
“Competing Neural Decision Variables in Human Frontal Cortex Shape Decision Confidence”
by Alessandro Toso, @ayeletarazi.bsky.social, @jrochav.bsky.social, @ktsetsos.bsky.social & Tobias H. Donner
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This programme will benefit from Trinity's outstanding neuroimaging facilities, including a cutting-edge OPM-MEG system—one of the first in Europe.

PhD and postdoc recruitment will begin soon (details to follow). If you are interested, or know someone who might be, please get in touch!

I have appreciated my time at the University of Bristol, where I met excellent colleagues and students.

With support from a European Research Council ( @erc.europa.eu) Consolidator Grant, I will launch a new research programme on the computational and neural mechanisms of preference variability.