The Department of Psychology at TU Dresden and Charité Medical School in Berlin seek to fill the following position within the Collaborative Research Center 940 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG):
Research Fellow / Postdoc Position
in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Intentions
(Subject to personal qualification employees are remunerated according to salary group E 13 TV-L)
The position is expected to start as soon as possible and will be fixed-term until 30.06.2020.
The SFB 940 research center: In its 2nd funding period the Collaborative Research Center “Volition and Cognitive Control” (SFB 940) comprises 14 projects with a budget of over 10 Mill. € (http://www.sfb940.de/de/home.html). The center combines expertise from experimental psychology, biological psychology, cognitive-affective neuroscience, lifespan developmental neuroscience, clinical psychology and psychiatry to investigate cognitive and neural mechanisms of volitional control, the development and aging of these mechanisms, and volitional dysfunctions in selected mental disorders. The Collaborative Research Center and the TU Dresden (which is one of the 11 Universities of Excellence selected by the German Re-search Foundation and the German Council of Science and Humanities) provide an outstanding scientific infrastructure and ideal environment for interdisciplinary cooperation.
Position: The to-be-filled position in this announcement will be in SFB940-Project A1 on Neurobehavioral mechanisms of shielding and shifting of intentions. The project will combine behavioral studies, fMRI and multivariate decoding to study the shielding of intentions against conflicting demands. It is a collaboration project between Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes (Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and the Chair of General Psychology at TU Dresden (Prof. Thomas Goschke, Dr. Moritz Walser). Working place will be Dresden with frequent visits to Berlin.
Tasks: The successful applicant will work together with the principal investigators of the project in conducting neuroimaging experiments and model-based imaging data analyses, as well as in preparing manuscripts, presenting at conferences and in supervising master students.
Requirements: A university and doctorate degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Medicine or related disciplines. Strong backgrounds in conducting and analyzing functional imaging data. We particularly seek applicants who also have experience in computational modeling and/or advanced imaging data analyses.
The period of employment is governed by § 2 Fixed Term Research Contract Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG). The positon will give you an excellent chance for further academic qualification (e.g. habilitation thesis). Applications from women are particularly welcome. The same applies to people with disabilities.
Questions concerning the position should be addressed to Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes ([log in to unmask]).
Complete application documents (including a CV, a short research statement, names and emails of 2 or more referees, and 2 or more representative articles) should be sent preferably as one PDF-document via email with “Application-Postdoc-SFB-A1” in the subject header to [log in to unmask] with [log in to unmask] as cc.
The initial deadline of application is the 14th July, 2016 (stamped arrival date of the university central mail service applies), however later applications can be considered.
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