The Department of Experimental Psychology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen is looking to fill the position of a Post-Doc Research Assistant. Regular working hours will be (currently 39.8 hours per week) with a limited contract of 2 years. This position should be filled by 01.10.2014. Salary: Pay grade 13 TV-L. The lab studies the behavioral and neural mechanisms of processing of unconscious visual stimuli and masked priming and uses psychophysical (RT, Eye-Movements), physiological (EEG, fMRI, tDCS), and phenomenological approaches to better understand these mechanisms. *Your Duties* * The successful candidate will have the opportunity to perform basic research and will be intimately involved in all aspects of data collection, analyses, and the publication of results. * Administrative duties including supervising student coworkers, maintaining protocols, subject recruitment and scheduling, and record keeping related to active studies will also be required. * The project focusses on physiological approaches to visual masking. *Your profile* * You hold a highly qualified PhD in Psychology. * Excellent programming experience (e.g., Matlab, Presentation) and statistical software like R. * Publications on psychophysiological studies of visual processes (EEG, fMRI). * Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills. Must have a demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team. * Proficiency in English. * Knowledge of and interest in the visual system, visual cognition, neuroanatomy, and statistics. The University of Göttingen is an equal opportunities employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply as they are underrepresented in this field. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favoured. Please send your application with the usual documents (also in electronic form) by within three weeks after publication of this advertisement to Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institute for Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, Gossler-Str. 14, 37073 Göttingen, e-mail: uwe.mattler(a)psych.uni-goettingen.de. If you have any questions, please contact Uwe Mattler (e-mail:uwe.mattler@psych.uni-goettingen.de <mailto:%20uwe.mattler@psych.uni-goettingen.de>). We request that you send us copies of your application documents, as no returns will be made. We will destroy the documents after a holding period of five months. Application documents will only be returned to you if you provide a self-addressed adequately stamped envelope -- Dr. Thorsten Albrecht, Dipl.-Psych. Georg-Elias-Müller Institute for Psychology - Experimental Psychology - University Göttingen Goßlerstr. 14 37073 Göttingen Phone ++49 551 3933615 Email:Thorsten.Albrecht@biologie.uni-goettingen.de