<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all,<br></div><div>For your information and dissemination.<br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>JB<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Narly Golestani</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:42 PM<br>Subject: PhD Position on the Brain, Language and Multilingualism<br>To: Narly Golestani <<a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</a>><br></div><br><br>




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<p>I would be grateful if you could please circulate the below job advertisement to anyone who may be interested.
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<p>Many thanks in advance and best wishes,</p>
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 which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, we seek to fill a <b>PhD position for a four-year project,</b> starting in September or October 2020.<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US">Our goal is to make
 progress in understanding <b>language giftedness</b> from cognitive, psychological and neural perspectives. To this end, we plan to carry out a set of studies involving acquisition of both <b>behavioral measures of cognitive and language-related abilities
</b>(e.g. auditory/perceptual abilities, phonemic perception and production, inductive learning, working memory etc) and of <b>brain imaging measures</b> (fMRI and sMRI). The project will be supervised by Narly Golestani (University of Geneva) and Raphael Berthele
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<b>brain functional neuroimaging</b> (ideally fMRI), <b>behavioral testing</b> and strong
<b>statistics</b> skills. Command of the <u>French and English languages</u> is essential. Given hiring restrictions due to Covid19, priority will be given to European applicants, at least for now.<br>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US">The NCCR places great
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US">Applicants may send
 a pdf file including a cover letter, a CV, names and contact information of 3 references as well as any other relevant documents to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#337ab7" lang="EN-US">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"> and </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Raphael.berthele@unifr.ch" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#337ab7" lang="EN-US">Raphael.berthele@unifr.ch</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US">.<br>
<b>Deadline for application: July 22^nd 2020</b></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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