Successful applicants will work in an interdisciplinary research project at the Faculty of Psychology studying the neurobiological foundations of human primary and social reward processing
(http://www.wwtf.at/programmes/ci/#c4571h ).
The project is generously funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Funds (WWTF) and will be supervised by Dr. Giorgia Silani (http://www.silanilab.com/projects.html ) and Dr. Christoph Eisenegger (http://www.nbu-vienna.com/ ).
The project takes an interdisciplinary approach and will involve combinations of neuroimaging techniques, behavioural paradigms assessing primary and social reward, with a strong focus on psychopharmacology.
We offer a state-of-the-art research infrastructure involving direct access to several labs and a research only 3 Tesla MRI Center, including combined EEG/TMS and EEG/fMRI systems, tDCS. The position will be embedded in a thriving research environment offering various opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborations, such as a research platform for Cognitive Science (http://cogsci.univie.ac.at), a research platform for multimodal and translational neuroimaging (http://forschungscluster.meduniwien.ac.at/mmi-cns.html) and a center for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (http://scan.psy.univie.ac.at).
The candidate should hold an excellent PhD in a relevant field, or expect to be awarded a PhD soon, and have a publication record in international journals. Excellent German and English language skills are required. An autonomous work-style and genuine curiosity is both required and supported. The candidate will work in a highly interdisciplinary research environment and is expected to be willing to share skills with others.
Expertise in psychopharmacology and neuroimaging is preferred.
The University of Vienna is the oldest university in the German-speaking world. The Faculty of Psychology is located at the center of the beautiful Danube city, which is currently ranked highest in living quality worldwide.
Applications will be considered until April 22th. The position is available immediately.
Applications should be sent electronically and include a CV (incl. full publication list), a cover letter explaining why you are suited for and interested in this particular position, and 2 letters of references (sent separately and directly by the referees).
Please send these materials to Martina Gasser ([log in to unmask] ) with “Application Silani Project” in the e-mail header. For informal enquiries please contact Giorgia Silani ([log in to unmask]).
The salary scheme is based on the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff:
Article 48f B1 lit. b (Postdoc)
http://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/personalwesen/Kollektivvertrag/KollV_2013_06.pdf
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