[BIC-announce] Fwd: PhD Position on the Brain, Language and Multilingualism

[JB Poline]

Dear all,
For your information and dissemination.
Cheers
JB

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From: Narly Golestani <Narly.Golestani at unige.ch>
Date: Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 4:42 PM
Subject: PhD Position on the Brain, Language and Multilingualism
To: Narly Golestani <Narly.Golestani at unige.ch>


Dear Colleagues,


I would be grateful if you could please circulate the below job
advertisement to anyone who may be interested.


Many thanks in advance and best wishes,

Narly.


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With the launch of a new ‘NCCR Evolving Language’ (
http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/nfs/Faktenblatt_NCCR_evolvinglanguage_en.pdf),
which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of
disciplines across Switzerland, we seek to fill a *PhD position for a
four-year project,* starting in September or October 2020.

Our goal is to make progress in understanding *language giftedness* from
cognitive, psychological and neural perspectives. To this end, we plan to
carry out a set of studies involving acquisition of both *behavioral
measures of cognitive and language-related abilities *(e.g. auditory/perceptual
abilities, phonemic perception and production, inductive learning, working
memory etc) and of *brain imaging measures* (fMRI and sMRI). The project
will be supervised by Narly Golestani (University of Geneva) and Raphael
Berthele (University of Fribourg), and will be done in collaboration with a
postdoctoral fellow. Data will be collected with Francophone (mono- and
multilingual) subjects.

Applicants should hold have a background in *cognitive neuroscience or
psychology*, with solid experience in *brain functional neuroimaging*
(ideally fMRI), *behavioral testing* and strong *statistics* skills.
Command of the *French and English languages* is essential. Given hiring
restrictions due to Covid19, priority will be given to European applicants,
at least for now.

The NCCR places great emphasis on gender diversity and we particularly
encourage women to apply.

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 Narly.Golestani at unige.ch and Raphael.berthele at unifr.ch.
*Deadline for application: July 22nd 2020*


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*Brain and Language Lab*


*Prof. Narly GOLESTANI *

Department of Psychology

Campus Biotech

*9 Chemin des Mines, *

*1202 Genève*

*+41 22 379 53 52*

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