Two Postdoctoral (2 years) and two Doctoral Fellowships (3 years) are available at a consortium between the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine - CHUV, Gerontology Center, UniGe and LREN, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, CHUV in Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland, supported by a generous grant from the Leenaards Foundation. The positions will be suitable for highly talented and motivated candidates with interests in interdisciplinary research on the impact of social adversity on brain health.

THE POSITIONS

The goal of our project is to understand the impact of social adversity on brain health through the entire lifespan. To this end, we have collected data from ≈ 1500 healthy participants from 40 to 90 years old, consisting of socio-economic data, neuropsychological examinations, brain magnetic-resonance imaging and a range of other variables of assumed importance for brain health, such as cardio-vascular risk factors, inflammatory biomarkers etc. The participants are followed longitudinally, up to 15 years with a second MRI, 5 years after first acquisition in due course of the current project.
The candidates will participate in data processing, statistical analyses and publish results based on this cohort. This is a unique opportunity to produce high impact research for a skilled researcher at the begin of her/his career. The candidates will collaborate closely with other senior and junior researchers working on the same cohort to identify and test specific hypotheses.

The Postdoctoral positions require the following qualifications:
1.	Computational scientist (supervised by BD at LREN-DNC, CHUV) – should be a holder of a PhD awarded in the areas of imaging neuroscience, computational science, statistics or similar. The candidate should be a power-user of Matlab, statistical analysis packages, shell scripting and have experience with UNIX platforms. This position will open from September 2018.
2.	Biostatistician (supervised by SS at the IUMSP/CHUV) – should be a holder of a PhD awarded in the areas of mathematics, statistics, computational science, or similar. This position will open from September 2019.

The Doctoral positions require the following qualifications:
1.	Psychologist / Neuroscientist (supervised by MK at UniGE) – should be a holder of an MSc awarded in the in the areas of psychology or cognitive neuroscience. The candidate should have good understanding of experimental psychology and cognitive aging, ideally but not necessarily with some background in neuroimaging. This position will open from September 2018.
2.	Neuroscientist (supervised by BD at LREN-DNC, CHUV) – should be a holder of a MsC awarded in the areas of imaging neuroscience, computational science, statistics or similar. Knowledge in Matlab and basic univariate/multi-variate statistics are desired. This position will open from September 2018.

The main purpose of the fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in higher academic positions within their disciplines.
Please send a letter of motivation, CV and at least 3 references from previous/current supervisors until June 1st 2018.

For more information, please contact: 
Silvia Stringhini - [log in to unmask]; www.iumsp.ch/en/stringhini-silvia
Matthias Kliegel - [log in to unmask]; www.unige.ch/fapse/aging/fr/members/kliegel
Bogdan Draganski - [log in to unmask]; www.unil.ch/lren