Dear Mailinglist,
I would like to announce the opening of 2 postdoctoral positions in the Department of Social Neuroscience at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
See below and attached for further details.
Best wishes,
Tania Singer
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Vacancy
The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany,
Department of Social Neuroscience led by Prof. Tania Singer
invites applications for a
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Postdoctoral Position in Developmental Psychology and Neuroscience (Ref # 2015-1).
The position is part of an interdisciplinary social neuroscience department investigating the foundations of human social behavior, and more specifically the neural, developmental, hormonal mechanism underlying social cognition, social decision making, and social emotions such as compassion and empathy and their plasticity.
The successful candidate will be primarily involved in the conductance and analyses of behavioral and MRI data with children and adolescents regarding the question of plasticity of the social brain and behavior.
More specifically, the position will focus on performing intervention programs in schools and in the lab to investigate trainability of social emotions and social cognition as well as social decision making and cooperation in children and adolescents. The research will be inspired by contemplative approaches and the ongoing ReSource Project performed in adults at the Department of Social Neuroscience (www.resource-project.org) and use a multi-method approach including a variation of behavioral-, hormonal, MRI, and autonomic measures.
Job description and requirements
-Research interest and experience in the human development of socio-affective and socio-cognitive skills, social decision making and cooperation, plasticity as well as cognitive control and emotion regulation.
-Perform intervention research in the lab and in classroom environments in Berlin and Leipzig.
-Usage and analyses of a wide range of methods such as structural and functional MRI, behavioral testing as well as hormonal analyses (e.g., cortisol).
-Interest for contemplative approaches around secular training programs focusing on mindfulness, compassion, attention, and perspective taking on self and others (see the ReSource Project).
-Interdisciplinary collaboration within the group in the social neuroscience department with experts in social- and affective neurosciences (including DTI, resting state, cortical thickness and functional fMRI), behavioral psychology (including social cognition, game theory, cognitive functioning etc.) and bio-psychology (including TSST, diurnal cortisol profiles)
The successful candidate has finished their PhD and may already have held a postdoctoral position, and they show evidence of high scholarly promise in the form of publications and other academic achievements. He/she has expertise in developmental psychology and has experience MRI, behavioral psychology, and possibly also with game-theoretical paradigms.
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Postdoctoral Position in Human Brain Plasticity with focus on
Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Resting State, and Cortical Thickness Analyses (Ref # 2015-2).
The position is part of an interdisciplinary department for social neuroscience investigating the foundations of human social behavior, and more specifically the neural, developmental, hormonal mechanisms underlying social cognition, social decision making, and social emotions such as compassion and empathy and their plasticity.
The successful candidate will be primarily involved in the analyses of DTI, resting state, and structural MRI brain data obtained during a large-scale one-year longitudinal mental training study, the ReSource Project (www.resource-project.org). The ReSource Project investigates the effects of attentional, affective, and cognitive mental training on different functional and structural brain networks, stress- and health-related markers, subjective well-being as well as social and cognitive functioning and behavior. In this multi-method and interdisciplinary study, more than 90 measures have been assessed in more than 300 participants over four measurement time points.
Job description and requirements:
-Research interest in longitudinal structural and functional brain changes after mental training with a focus on DTI, cortical thickness, and resting state analyses
-Interest in contemplative secular training programs such as the ReSource Project (www.resource-project.org)
-Interest in interdisciplinary collaboration with other researchers working in the context of the ReSource Project in the social neuroscience department on measures including functional fMRI tasks on pain, empathy, Theory of Mind, emotion regulation and attention, behavioral paradigms from psychology (including social cognition, game theory, cognitive functioning etc.) and bio-psychology (including TSST, diurnal cortisol profiles, immune markers, etc.).
The successful candidate has finished their PhD and may already have held a postdoctoral position, and they show evidence of high scholarly promise in the form of publications and other academic achievements. He/she has expertise in structural brain analyses (preferentially cortical thickness analyses), graph-theoretical network modeling, resting state analyses, DTI, MATLAB, FSL, and other relevant methodological tools.
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For further details, see http://www.cbs.mpg.de/depts/singer/vacant or contact Prof. Dr Tania Singer ([log in to unmask]).
Applications (full CV, motivation letter, list of publications, contact information of 3 referees) should be sent as a single PDF file to Tania Singer ([log in to unmask]) and Sandra Zurborg ([log in to unmask]).
The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages women and handicapped individuals to apply.
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Prof. Dr. Tania Singer
Director
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Department of Social Neuroscience
Stephanstr. 1a
04103 Leipzig, Germany
Tel. +49 341 9940 149
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/singer
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