| Apply before: | 27 February 2015 |
| Institute: | University of Groningen |
| Job specification: | We offer a full-time tenured or tenure track professorship in a n intellectually challenging environment. This position provides the opportunity to lead an independent research group in a highly inter- and multidisciplinary department. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research and strives for international excellence. |
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Author Archives: Ceylan Söylemez
Lecturer The School of Psychology at the University of Waikato
| Apply before: | 9 February 2015 |
| Institute: | University of Waikato |
| Job specification: | We are seeking to appoint two full time lecturers to contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching in Psychology. The area of research specialisation is open but candidates who can contribute to teaching and research in one or more of the following is desired: Animal Behaviour, Clinical Psychology, Human Experimental Psychology, Forensic Psychology or Psychological Methods and Measurement. |
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PhD position Bottom-up initiative on the energy market
| Apply before: | 2 February 2015 |
| Institute: | University of Groningen |
| Job specification: | The University of Groningen offers a junior researcher position on the ‘The power of the neighbourhood: The success and spread of bottom-up initiative on the energy market’. The project is funded by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and aims to study which individual and social factors explain, predict and influence the success and spread of local initiative on the energy market. |
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PhD fysiologie en gedrag tijdens de vroege adolescentie
| Apply before: | 16 januari 2015 |
| Institute: | Universiteit Leiden |
| Job specification: | De afdeling Algemene- en Gezinspedagogiek is op zoek naar een promovendus binnen het onderzoeksproject ‘Samen Uniek’. Dit project wordt gefinancierd door een zwaartekracht subsidie van NWO toegekend aan Prof. dr. Rien van IJzendoorn, Prof. dr. Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Prof. dr. Eveline Crone en Prof. dr. Rutger Engels. Het gaat om een longitudinaal onderzoek naar de invloed van neurobiologische en omgevingsfactoren op de ontwikkeling sociale competentie en gedragsregulatie bij tweelingen tussen de 7 en 13 jaar oud. De focus van dit PhD-project zal liggen op het verzamelen van gedragsdata en het verwerken en analyseren van biologisch materiaal, zoals speeksel en wangslijmvlies. |
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PhD Position in the Dutch Research Consortium ‘Language in Interaction’
| Apply before: | 1 february 2015 |
| Institute: | Radboud University |
| Job specification: | A vague term like ‘big’ can be easily used and processed when there is a clear gap between bigger and smaller objects. We will test the hypothesis that a gap in distribution is the default criterion used in the processing of vague words in classificatory tasks, but that other criteria might also come into play. We will also test whether a similar default exists for the processing of quantity expressions such as ‘most’ (use the approximate number system if there is a gap, and precise counting otherwise). The ultimate goal is a unified theory of the processing of vague expressions. |
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PhD student ‘mindfulness research in ADHD’
| Apply before: | 1 february 2015 |
| Institute: | Radboud University Medical Center |
| Job specification: | Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are common neurodevelopmental disorders affecting both children and adults. Despite their societal importance, progress in understanding disease biology has been slow and treatment options are limited. The pan-European training network MiND combines advanced (epi-)genetics, epidemiological, and neuroscience approaches with bioinformatics and will develop novel cell and animal models of increasing complexity to understand the biology of cognition. Our mechanistic work is embedded in a framework exploring disease definitions for ADHD and ASD across the lifespan and will contribute substantially to improved disease management. |
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Postdoc position in Cognitive Neuroscience: Arousal, neural gain and cognitive function
| Apply before: | – |
| Institute: | Universiteit Leiden |
| Job specification: | Arousal has a wide variety of effects on human attention and performance, as documented in a rich empirical literature that was developed mainly before the 1980s. The computational and neural mechanisms underlying these effects, however, are still poorly understood. The goal of the present project is to revisit this literature and try to understand the relationships between arousal and cognition by applying recent computational models and insights about the role of neuromodulator systems in cognitive function (e.g., models of the noradrenergic modulation of neural gain). |
| External references: | Website |
Research Fellow in Health Psychology/Behavioural Medicine
| Apply before: | 7 januari 2015 |
| Institute: | College of Life Sciences & Medicine |
| Job specification: | The Aberdeen Health Psychology Group is looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious Research Fellow to lead an exciting project titled ‘Making smoking cessation interventions more useful to policy and practice: Identifying the effective behavioural components of smoking cessation support provided to intervention and control groups by applying innovative methods for evidence syntheses’. |
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Postdoc position in Cognitive Neuroscience
| Apply before: | – |
| Institute: | Universiteit Leiden |
| Job specification: | Research project “Arousal, neural gain and cognitive function”Arousal has a wide variety of effects on human attention and performance, as documented in a rich empirical literature that was developed mainly before the 1980s. The computational and neural mechanisms underlying these effects, however, are still poorly understood. The goal of the present project is to revisit this literature and try to understand the relationships between arousal and cognition by applying recent computational models and insights about the role of neuromodulator systems in cognitive function (e.g., models of the noradrenergic modulation of neural gain). |
| External references: | Website |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroscience
| Apply before: | 31 December 2014 |
| Institute: | Universitätsmedizin Göttingen |
| Job specification: | Successful candidates will join efforts to understand mechanisms of neuronal control of breathing, focusing on the role of inhibitory neurons and astrocytes. Our established experimental approaches include two-photon-microscopy and neurophysiology, pharmacology immunohistochemistry as well as optogenetics.
A doctoral degree (PhD or equivalent) in neuroscience or neurophysiology is required at the time of appointment. Successful candidates are expected to participate in experimental design, data collection, analysis and interpretation, preparation of oral and written scientific reports. Exceptional resources will be available at the University of Göttingen including a rich collaborative environment. The group is part of the Cluster of Excellence/DFG Research Center Nanoscale Microscopy and Molecular Physiology of the Brain (CNMPB). |
| External references: | Website |