Dear colleagues,
I am forwarding the following information about open job opportunities
in Giessen and Marburg on behalf of Karl Gegenfurtner. The P.I.s on
projects that involve fMRI are marked by an X in the list.
Best wishes,
Bianca
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The German Research Council (DFG) has established a Collaborative
Research Center (SFB/TRR 135) at the universities of Giessen and
Marburg. The scientific goal is to investigate the cardinal mechanisms
that underlie perception: prediction, valuation and categorization.
Scientists within the research center come from different disciplines
ranging from experimental psychology and human movement science to
neurophysics and psycholinguistics. We use a vast range of methods
including psychophysics, neuroimaging and single unit electrophysiology.
The positions are available starting on April 1, 2014 or soon
thereafter, and can potentially be held until the end of 2017.
If you are interested in a PhD studentship or a PostDoc position, you
should contact one of the principal investigators of the grant directly:
Jutta Billino (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Aging)
X Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (Marburg, Experimental Linguistics, Embodiment)
Doris Braun (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Eye movements)
X Frank Bremmer (Marburg, Neurophysics, Oculomotor Physiology, Self Motion)
Knut Drewing (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Active Touch)
X Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer (Marburg, Neurophysics, Ocuolomotor salience)
X Katja Fiehler (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Hand and Eye Movements)
X Karl Gegenfurtner (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Color Vision, Eye
Movements)
X Mathias Hegele (Giessen, Human Movement Science, Animacy)
Bianca Jovanovic (Giessen, Developmental Psychology, Infant Motor
Experience)
Christina Kauschke (Marburg, Clinical and Developmental Linguistics,
Emotion Words)
X Tilo Kircher (Marburg, Psychiatry, Inter-modal Perception)
Harald Lachnit (Marburg, Experimental Psychology, Associative Learning)
Anna Schubö (Marburg, Cognitive Psychophysiology, Attention, Visual
Selection)
Alexander Schütz (Giessen, Experimental Psychology, Eye Movements and Value)
Gudrun Schwarzer (Giessen, Developmental Psychology, Child Face Perception)
X Benjamin Straube (Marburg, Psychiatry, Perception of One's Own Actions)
X Bianca Wittmann (Giessen, Biological Psychology, Motivational salience)
A list of all projects, including links to the P.I.'s web pages can be
found at
http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/sfb
Applicants should have a strong academic training, including a Master's
degree in a relevant discipline.
Please send a CV and a brief cover letter explaining why you are
interested in applying for a position either directly to one of the
P.I.s listed above, or to the grant coordinator Karl Gegenfurtner
(gegenfurtner(a)uni-giessen.de).
Applications should be received by February 14, 2014, but we will
consider late applications until all the positions are filled.
Karl Gegenfurtner
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Prof. Karl Gegenfurtner, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie
Justus-Liebig-Universität, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10, 35394 Giessen
phone: +49 641 9926100 mailto:gegenfurtner@uni-giessen.de
fax: +49 641 9926119 http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/karl
Dear Users
This afternoon (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be talks on
1) "Update on Participant Consent at YNiC" given by Mark Hymers
2) "Feedback from the MEG UK meeting" given by Gary Green.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
As some of you may already know, Garreth Prendergast is leaving YNiC at
the end of this month to become a post-doc at the University of Manchester.
Please put *Wednesday 29th January 4-5 pm* in your diaries if you would
like to be part of the organised farewell to Garreth.
Garreth will be giving his "farewell seminar" on 29th January from 4-5
pm in YNiC. After the seminar we will be taking Garreth out for drinks
and dinner to thank him for all his contributions to the department.
Please let me know if you would like to join us for dinner.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
This Thursday (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be 1) a talk on
"Update on Participant Consent at YNiC" given by Mark Hymers and 2) a
talk on "Feedback from the MEG UK meeting" given by Gary Green.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
We are pleased to announce two PhD studentships in medical imaging:
Experimental neuroimaging with Focal MEG
Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4 years if full-time studies
Extent: 100 %
Location: Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg
First day of employment: As agreed
Reference number: UR 2014/16
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl…
This project targets stress-induced heart disease (SIHD) with an
experimental neuroimaging technique: Focal MEG. The PhD student will be
involved in the planning and execution of medical research studies that
explore the neurophysiological signaling pathways responsible for the
spectrum of responses to arousal we have observed in the general
population.
These arousal responses are rapid—occuring in less than a heartbeat—and
strongly correlated with long-term trends in blood pressure and heart
disease. State-of-the-art MEG—like the recently installed NatMEG system
to which the student will have access—adds the time-dimension to
neuroimaging, allowing one to see where, when, and how long brain
activity occurs. Our experimental Focal MEG system improves the
sensitivity of MEG; this project will help develop and validate this
beyond state-of-the-art neurimaging system. Participants in the studies
will be recruited from ongo ing studies that are presently led by the
supervisory team at the SUH Department of Clinical Neurophysiology. By
combining next-gen neuroimaging with groups of subjects that have been
well characterized in ongoing studies, we hope to identify a biomarker
for SIHD.
The PhD student will thus have access to a unique research
infrastructure (NatMEG, Focal MEG, as well as standard fMRI, EEG, ECG,
etc.) and be supervised by leading clinical and experimental
researchers. Not only will the finished PhD be well educated, but he/she
will have a solid foundation for a career in testing clinical issues in
experimental environments. When this project is completed, we hope to
have identified clinically relevant and non-invasive markers that lead
to a better understanding of the underlying physiological mechanisms for
SIHD.
/This PhD position is funded via doctoral grant during the first year
and doctoral studentship during the last three years, and leads to a
doctoral degree./
Automatic lesion detection in brain images
Type of employment: Fixed-term employment, 4 years if full-time studies
Extent: 100 %
Location: Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg
First day of employment: As agreed
Reference number: UR 2014/17
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-appl…
A well-established and validated approach to anatomical image
segmentation is to use image registration to propagate anatomical labels
from multiple atlases to a target (patient) image. We have developed
MAPER, a tool that implements this approach for the segmentation of
structural magnetic resonance images of the brain. MAPER is currently
the most accurate and robust method for segmenting the whole of the
human brain into its constituent structures. We have shown its
usefulness in particular for measuring markers of neurodegeneration, for
example in Alzheimer's disease.
The drawback of atlas-based segmentation methods is that some injuries
or disease processes lead to the appearance of focal brain lesions
(edema, bleeding, tumours, etc.). These are not normally represented in
the atlases, and are therefore frequently mislabelled. Addressing this
problem will potentially lead to novel applications of automatic image
analysis: decision support in the management of stroke, quantitative
monitoring of recovery after head injury or brain surgery, objective
evaluation of the changes caused by brain tumours and brain cancer
treatment, measurement of disease progression in multiple sclerosis,
seizure focus identification in epilepsy, and many others. The goal of
this project is to develop the capability of automatically detecting and
measuring lesions and to validate it on real-world imaging data that we
will access through collaborations with clinical experts in the relevant
diseases.
/This PhD position is funded via doctoral grant during the first year
and doctoral studentship during the last three years, and leads to a
doctoral degree.
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Rolf A Heckemann, MD PhD
Professor of Medical Imaging and Image Analysis
MedTech West <http://www.medtechwest.se> at Sahlgrenska University Hospital
University of Gothenburg
Sweden
Dear Users
This afternoon (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project
proposal presentation given by Charlotte Murphy. The title of
Charlotte's talk is "Flexible Retrieval and Representation of Amodal
Concepts".
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Hi,
For all of this term, YNiC open plan will be very busy on Thursdays,
especially between 11-1 and 2-4. This is because of MSc Cognitive
Neuroscience teaching. Non-MSc students can use open plan but will need
to be aware that teaching is taking place and please use the machines at
the back of the room. MSc students will be given priority on computers.
Please make sure that you do not leave yourself logged into machines in
open plan as we will forcibly log out users as necessary at the start of
the teaching session.
Apologies for the late sending of this email.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers, York Neuroimaging Centre
Please note that my email address is: mark.hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Responses to messages sent to other addresses may be delayed
Dear YNiC users,
All YNiC users are invited to attend the next meeting of the YNiC
Science Committee, next Monday at 2pm in B204. The committee exists to
facilitate scientific work at YNiC by bringing YNiC staff and users
together to discuss support issues. Users who would like to raise a
particular issue for consideration at this meeting should contact the
Chair (Beth Jefferies <beth.jefferies(a)york.ac.uk>) or Secretary (Michael
Simpson <michael.simpson(a)ynic.york.ac.uk>) *in advance*, so that the
issue can be added to the agenda.
With best wishes
Beth and Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users
This Thursday (4.15 pm in YNiC open plan) there will be a project
proposal presentation given by Charlotte Murphy. The title of
Charlotte's talk is "Flexible Retrieval and Representation of Amodal
Concepts".
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be served afterwards.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
The Eating Disorder Section of the Department of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden University of
Technology, Germany (Prof. Stefan Ehrlich) invites applications for a
postdoc position (full time) in neuroimaging of eating disorders with a
focus on computational neuroscience and in close collaboration with the
Collaborative Research Centre 940 "Volition and Cognitive Control:
Mechanisms, Modulators, and Dysfunctions" http://www.sfb940.de/. Our
international and multidisciplinary group conducts basic research in
neuroscience at the inter-face to clinical applications. We focus on
cognitive control, reward system and the processing of positive and
negative emotions in patients with anorexia nervosa. Some of our
projects are part of the aforementioned Collaborative Research Centre
(CRC, Steering Committee: Profs. T. Goschke, C. Kirschbaum, M. Smolka,
A. Strobel, H.-U. Wittchen).
Postdoctoral Research Position (f/m)
in Neuroimaging of Eating Disorders
To further strengthen our lab, we are seeking for a postdoc with some
experience in Computational Neuroscience, e.g. model-based analysis of
behavioral and MRI data, decoding or machine learning. Responsibilities
will also include the coordination of our ongoing clinical research
study and the acquisition, preprocessing and analysis of a range of
behavioral and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data. Together with a
doctoral student new functional MRI paradigms need to be programmed and
implemented. Imaging sessions will take place on the Neuroimaging
Center's 3T Siemens TIM-Trio scanner. We routinely collect high-quality
structural, diffusion, and functional MRI data. A variety of additional
information is also being collected, including neuropsychological and
psychiatric scales, physiological (SCR, eye tracking) and
endocrinological markers. Summarizing results and writing research
articles will be another central aspect of the work.
The successful applicant will work in a team of young investigators and
also start to supervise doctoral students, interns and medical students
working in the project. Thanks to the CRC the applicant will have ample
opportunity to work with peers and senior scientists in similar project
in the Medical School and the Psychology Department. In addition, the
position offers the possibility for further scientific qualification
(i.e. Habilitation).
Requirements:
. Doctoral degree (Ph.D.) in any scientific field of study with a strong
quantitative background, e.g. mathematics, informatics, statistics,
computational neuroscience, biomedical or electrical engineering (with
additional qualifications or experience in computational neuroscience a
PhD, MD or comparable degree in a relevant field such as psychology,
biology, biomedicine, medicine, biophysics or physics may also be
sufficient).
. Expertise in computational modeling of behavioral and/or imaging data
(e.g., Bayesian inference methods and statistics, hidden Markov
modeling, machine learning, reinforcement and temporal difference
learning or connectivity analyses)
. Experience in computer programming (Linux/Unix shell scripting, Python
and/or MATLAB)
. Some exposure to cognitive and emotional neurosciences
. Participation in research activities within the past years
. Publications in peer-reviewed journals
. Strong organizational skills
. Command of some basic German
The successful applicant will join a multidisciplinary team of
researchers and clinicians, will receive further training and train
doctoral students (informally).
The Salary will be consistent with levels in accordance with the German
Research Foundation (100% TV-L: E 13). Compensation includes health
insurance and vacation time.
The position is available for a start date as soon as January 20th 2014
(to be confirmed). Review of applications will begin immediately and
will continue until the position is filled. The position is guaranteed
for two to three years with the possibility of renewal after positive
evaluation. The funding has been granted for 5 years.
To apply you can use our online portal
(http://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/bildung-und-karriere/stellenangebote/wiss…
).
The application should include a cover letter detailing professional
objectives and interests, CV (with grades and language skills), and the
names and email addresses of two references. The application can be
written in German or English. The position is open to qualified
international applicants.
Please refer to our homepage:
http://www.kjp-dresden.de/en/content/eating-disorders
, http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_mathematik_und_na…,
http://www.kjp-dresden.de/en/content/schizophrenia
and http://www.kjp-dresden.de/de/basic-page/publikationsliste-prof-dr-s-ehrlich
for more detailed information.
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Dipl.-Inf. Daniel Geisler
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Bereich Angewandte Entwicklungsneurowissenschaften
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie
Fon +49 (0)351 458-7071
Fax +49 (0)351 458-7206
Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus
an der Technischen Universität Dresden
Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts des Freistaates Sachsen
Fetscherstraße 74 (Haus 25, Raum 233A),
01307 Dresden http://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de
Vorstand: Prof. Dr. med. D. M. Albrecht (Sprecher), Wilfried E. B. Winzer
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Prof. Dr. med. Peter C. Scriba
USt.-IDNr.: DE 140 135 217, St.-Nr.: 201 145 00020
