Researcher position (PhD student / Post-Doc level):
The Centre for Early Psychosis Studies (Head: Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris)
at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Department of Psychiatry
and Psychotherapy (Chair: Prof. Dr. Peter Falkai), under the EUFP-7
project PRONIA (
http://www.pronia.eu), seeks an outstanding individual
for the development of multivariate biomarkers of major psychiatric
diseases, including schizophrenic and affective psychoses, borderline
personality and anxiety disorders. The project's aim is to construct
reliable diagnostic and predictive methods that integrate neuroimaging,
neurocognitive, genetic, metabolomic and clinical biomarkers using
state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. The salary is according
the German TV-L E13 and depends on academic level of the applicant. The
position is initially limited to one year, with the possibility to
further extend it for another two years.
Application Criteria:
The candidate should be experienced in MATLAB programming and should be
familiar with current neuroimaging processing techniques (e.g. VBM,
cortex reconstruction) and software packages (SPM, FSL, Freesurfer).
These skills are needed to further develop and extend in-house
machine-learning techniques, including unsupervised and semi-supervised
clustering techniques vector-machines and ensemble learning methods. An
important focus of the work will be the analysis of genetic data
acquired within PsyCourse (
http://www.psycourse.de/) using the
aforementioned techniques.
The successful candidate will work in the coordinating centre of a
multi-centre EU Project's with a young, dynamic and multidisciplinary
team. The main roles associated with this position are not restricted to
scientific output, they include software production and project
coordination as well. Henceforth the candidate should have a flexible
and structured profile complemented by a good strategic thinking ability.
Long-standing cooperations exist with the Structural Brain Mapping Group
at the University of Jena (Prof. Christian Gaser) and the Section for
Biomedical Image Analysis (Prof. Christos Davatzikos).
Please send your application including a CV and a letter of
recommendation to Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Department of Psychiatry
and Psychotherapy, Nußbaumstr. 7, 80336 Munich, Germany or by email to
nikolaos.koutsouleris(a)med.uni-muenchen.de. For further information
concerning this position and our research group, please do not hesitate
to contact Dr. Nikolaos Koutsouleris and Carlos Cabral
(carlos.cabral(a)med.uni-muenchen.de).
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled. The start date is as soon as possible.