[BIC-announce] Fwd: Postdoctoral Position in Leipzig: Human Brain Plasticity with focus on DTI, Resting State, & Cortical Thickness Analyses

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

On behalf of Boris Bernhardt, see below.

Have great weekend everyone,

Sylvain.

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Vacancy

The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany,
Department of Social Neuroscience led by Prof. Tania Singer invites applications for a

Postdoctoral Position in Human Brain Plasticity with focus on
Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Resting State, and Cortical Thickness Analyses (Ref # 2015-2).

The position is part of an interdisciplinary department for social neuroscience investigating the foundations of human social behavior, and more specifically the neural, developmental, hormonal mechanisms underlying social cognition, social decision making, and social emotions such as compassion and empathy and their plasticity.

The successful candidate will be primarily involved in the analyses of DTI, resting state, and structural MRI brain data obtained during a large-scale one-year longitudinal mental training study, the ReSource Project (www.resource-project.org<http://www.resource-project.org/>). The ReSource Project investigates the effects of attentional, affective, and cognitive mental training on different functional and structural brain networks, stress- and health-related markers, subjective well-being as well as social and cognitive functioning and behavior. In this multi-method and interdisciplinary study, more than 90 measures have been assessed in more than 300 participants over four measurement time points.

Job description and requirements:

-Research interest in longitudinal structural and functional brain changes after mental training with a focus on DTI, cortical thickness, and resting state analyses
-Interest in contemplative secular training programs such as the ReSource Project (www.resource-project.org<http://www.resource-project.org/>)
-Interest in interdisciplinary collaboration with other researchers working in the context of the ReSource Project in the social neuroscience department on measures including functional fMRI tasks on pain, empathy, Theory of Mind, emotion regulation and attention, behavioral paradigms from psychology (including social cognition, game theory, cognitive functioning etc.) and bio-psychology (including TSST, diurnal cortisol profiles, immune markers, etc.).

The successful candidate has finished their PhD and may already have held a postdoctoral position, and they show evidence of high scholarly promise in the form of publications and other academic achievements. He/she has expertise in structural brain analyses (preferentially cortical thickness analyses), graph-theoretical network modeling, resting state analyses, DTI, MATLAB, FSL, and other relevant methodological tools.

For further details, see http://www.cbs.mpg.de/depts/singer/vacant or contact Prof. Dr Tania Singer (singer at cbs.mpg.de<mailto:singer at cbs.mpg.de>).

Applications (full CV, motivation letter, list of publications, contact information of 3 referees) should be sent as a single PDF file to Tania Singer (singer at cbs.mpg.de<mailto:singer at cbs.mpg.de>) and Sandra Zurborg (zurborg at cbs.mpg.de<mailto:zurborg at cbs.mpg.de>).

The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunity employer and explicitly encourages women and handicapped individuals to apply.

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