PhD in cognitive neuroscience (Research Assistant)

Our profile:
RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe's leading educational and research institutions, with core competencies in the natural and engineering sciences.
HumTec is an interdisciplinary "project house" at RWTH Aachen University funded as part of the excellence initiative by the federal government and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. HumTec aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences.
The HumTec program “Brain, Concept, Writing” investigates the genesis of complex literary concepts in an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of literature, neuroscience and computer science.

Your profile:
Candidates for this position should hold a degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine or closely related disciplines. Experience in the realm of cognitive neuroscience, functional imaging methods and statistics would be of advantage. German language skills are required.

Your duties and responsibilities:
The candidate will examine the neurofunctional production and comprehension processes of literary texts in the human brain, in close cooperation with researchers of the Central Service Facility “Functional Imaging” at the University Hospital Aachen (www.izkf.rwth-aachen.de).

Our offer:
The candidate will be employed as a regular employee.
Salary will be TVL-13 (100%) till 31.12.2010, and TVL-13 (50%) for the remaining time.
The option of undertaking a PhD is provided.
The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is limited to a period of 2 years with the option of elongation.

RWTH Aachen University has been rewarded with the "Total-E-Quality-Award" for its efforts with respect to gender equality. Applications from female candidates are explicitly welcome. In cases of equal qualification, aptitude and expertise of the applicants, female candidates will be given preferential treatment for those salary groups and careers in which females are underrepresented, unless there are preponderant reasons to give preference to another applicant. Please refer to § 8 Article 6 of the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (Landesgleichstellungsgesetz NRW).
RWTH Aachen University has been rewarded with the title “disability-friendly” (“Prädikat behindertenfreundlich”) for its efforts with respect to training and employment of severely disabled people. Applications from severely disabled people with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. This applies as well to people with equal opportunities in accordance with § 2 SGB IX (Social Code).

Your contact person:
For further information, please contact
Dr. Ralph Schnitker
Tel.: +49 (0) 241 80 88890
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You can also obtain further information from our website: http://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de

Please send your application by 01.10.2009 (preferably via e-mail) to:
Dr. Ralph Schnitker
Universitätsklinikum Aachen Neuroradiologie
Pauwelsstrasse 30
D-52074 Aachen
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Dr. Ralph Schnitker 
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Central Service Facility "Functional Imaging" at the ICCR-Biomat 
Pauwelsstr. 30
52074 Aachen
Germany 
email: [log in to unmask]
home: http://www.izkf.rwth-aachen.de 
Phone: +49-241-80-88890
FAX: +49-241-80-82605 

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