Postdoc in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience TU Dresden, Department of Psychology

The Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience and the Neuroimaging Center at TU Dresden seek to fill the following position: 
4-year Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive and/or Computational Neuroscience.

The position could start on Sept 1, 2016 (or earlier) and entails 100% of the full time weekly hours and is fixed-term for 4 years. The period of employment is governed by §2 Fixed Term Research Contract Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG). Payment is according to the nationally agreed scale E-13 TV-L. 

The to-be-filled position in this announcement will be associated with SFB940 (http://www.sfb940.de/de/home.html) Project B3 on Aging and Neuromodulation of Complementary Control Processes. The project will conduct pharmaco-fMRI studies in younger and older adults to investigate how aging may moderate dopamine modulation of complementary control processes in tasks subserved by the frontal-hippocampal-striatal circuitries (e.g., perceptual, spatial, and dynamic decision tasks).

Requirements: A doctorate degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Medicine or related disciplines. Strong backgrounds in conducting and analyzing structural and functional imaging data. We particularly seek applicants who also have experiences in computational modeling and/or advanced imaging data analyses. Applications from women are welcome. The same applies to people with disabilities. Complete applications (including a CV, a short research statement, names and emails of 2 to 3 referees, and 2 to 3 representative articles) should be sent preferably as one PDF-document via email with “Application-Postdoc-SFB-B3” in the subject header to Prof. Shu-Chen Li, Ph.D. (Shu-Chen.Li@tu-dresden.de) and Prof. Dr. med. Michael Smolka (Michael.Smolka@tu-dresden.de). Initial deadline of application is July 20th, but the search process will continue until the position is filled.

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