Fwd: Applications invited for PhD Programme

We are inviting applications for 9 fully funded PhD studentships in the following interdisciplinary areas: biology, cognitive neurology, cognitive science, and psychology. Faculty and research projects: Florian Hutzler: i) Reverse inference in functional connectivity studies ii) Connectivity during natural reading in ecologically valid settings (fixation-related BOLD) Eva Jonas: i) Experiencing threat: Social-cognitive, neural, affective, and motivational perspectives ii) Managing threat: Social-cognitive, neural, affective, and motivational perspectives Wolfgang Klimesch: i)Temporal attention, alpha phase and slow oscillations ii) Memory capacity and the inhibition of distracting information Martin Kronbichler: i) Examining brain connectivity abnormalities in mental disorders ii) Brain connectvity and individual differences in cognitive abilities Josef Perner: i) Brain imaging counterfactual thinking and emotions ii) Tracking brain processes underlying identity statements and theory of mind Belinda Pletzer: i) Sex hormone influences on brain connectivity and higher cognitive functions ii) Sex hormone influences on inter-hemispheric connectivity and global-local processing Manuel Schabus: i) Consolidation of motor skills during sleep ii) Sleep and residual cognitive processing in disorders of consciousness Eugen Trinka: i) Emotion recognition and social cognition in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy ii) Memory in lesional drug resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy Frank Wilhelm: i) Neural processes underlying intrusive memory formation in PTSD ii) Dieting, thought control, and fronto-limbic connectivity: New hope for obesity? The program will admit students for the upcoming semester (1st March 2015) or winter semester (1st October 2015) and offers numerous benefits to its students: salary for a period of 3 to 4 years (including health and social insurance), equipped work space, cover of research consumables, specific technological training courses (e.g. fMRI, EEG), presentation, writing and teaching skill training, full funding of congress participation, workshops and international courses, including stays in foreign partner laboratories. Candidates must hold a master’s degree or equivalent with a relevant specialization in one of the above listed academic areas of the programme at the time of entry. Prior application is possible. The language of the graduate programme (teaching) is English; hence English proficiency is indispensable. The programme strives for equal representation of female PhD students so women are especially encouraged to apply. Deadline for applications: 6th January 2015 For detailed information about application, selection, admission procedure, and about the scientific pro-gram and faculty visit: http://www.uni-salzburg.at/phdim/application