We are pleased to announce the following career opportunity at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Research Center Jülich, Germany in cooperation with the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.

The Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM) and the Institute of Systems Neuroscience at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf jointly explores the structure and function of the brain in healthy subjects and in patients with neurological and psychiatric diseases. Our institute has a long-standing expertise in mapping brain networks and their inter-individual variability by integrating structure, function, connectivity and behavior. In addition, as a core partner of the Human Brain Project (HBP), we are currently building pipelines for high-throughput neuroimaging analyses and multi-modal brain mapping, enabling population-based descriptions of neurobiology and brain-behavior associations.

As part of these endeavors, we are currently offering several postdoc positions in neuroimaging to be filled as soon as possible.

Working at the interface between methods development, high-performance computing as well as basic and clinical neuroscience, this project focus on multi-modal brain mapping. The key idea of this work is to integrate in-vivo brain parcellation approaches with characterizations of inter-individual variability and brain-behavior analysis as well as clinical implications. Hereby we will leverage the available large neuroimaging datasets and high-performance computing capabilities into dynamic multi-modal population-based atlases of structure, function, connectivity and behavior.

Together with an interdisciplinary team you will be involved in all research and organization aspects, ranging from data management and methods development to neuroscientific and clinical application. You will also assist in supervising junior researchers (MD, MSc, PhD students ).

Development of a personal focus area (e.g., methods development, cognitive or affective neuroscience application, clinical translation, genetic imaging) within the field of MRI based brain mapping is strongly encouraged. 

Your profile:

• PhD in Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, Engineering or related areas
• Experience using neuroimaging packages such as SPM, FSL, NiPy etc.
• Programming expertise in Python and/or Matlab
• In-depth knowledge of spoken and written English, previous publication record
• High motivation to work in an interdisciplinary environment

Our offer:

• Work on innovative methods and applications in one of the most dynamic fields of imaging neuroscience, including unique opportunities to pioneer the integration of high-throughput computing, brain atlasing and investigations into brain-behavior relationships
• An interdisciplinary, international research environment
• World-class technical facilities, cutting-edge software technologies and fascinating neuroscientific datasets to work with
• A wide spectrum of individual training opportunities

• At least 3 year full-time position with options for long-term employment
• Salary conforming to salary grade E13 of the Collective Agreement for the German Civil Service (TVöD) according to experience
• Work can be performed either at the University of Düsseldorf or at the Research Center Jülich in a flexible manner

The position is available immediately and search will continue until a candidate has been selected. For further information, informal inquiries or applications, please contact Professor Simon Eickhoff ([log in to unmask]).