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The Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Germany invites applications for a PhD position in a third party funded project on "neural networks of emotion-cognition interaction in subclinical schizotypy". Applicants should have a master's degree in psychology, neuroscience or related fields and a strong interest and relevant experience in relevant research areas and methods.

The applicant is expected to conduct and analyse a fMRI-study under supervision of Dr. Katharina Pauly and Prof. Dr. Ute Habel. Applicants must have a good working(?) knowledge of spoken and written English. Knowledge of German is advantageous. Comensuration is according to German federal regulations (TV-L 13 ½). The appointment is limited to 2 years.

The Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine houses a training program for doctoral students in a network comprising the neuroscience research at RWTH Aachen University, the Research Center Jülich in Germany (JARA-Brain, www.jara.org/jara-brain) and the University of Pennsylvania (USA).

The RWTH aims to increase the number of women in areas in which they are underrepresented, thus women are strongly encouraged to apply. Persons with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. For further information please see: www.rwth-aachen.de/equality or www.rwth-aachen.de/disabilities

Please send applications including CV, cover letter and a 1-page letter of motivation to uhabel@ukaachen.de mailto:uhabel@ukaachen.de. Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Dr. U. Habel (uhabel@ukaachen.de mailto:uhabel@ukaachen.de)

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Dr.rer.medic. Nils Kohn, Dipl.-Psych.

Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine

RWTH Aachen University Pauwelsstraße 30 D 52074 Aachen Phone: +49241-8035499