[Eeglablist] Position available: Post-doctoral researcher in cognitive neuroscience

[Rogier Mars]

Applications are invited for an excellent postdoctoral researcher for a project researching the brain mechanisms driving adaptive top-down control. The project is based on a collaboration of the Performance Monitoring group of the Donders Centre for Cognition (Markus Ullsperger), Intention and Action group of the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (Ivan Toni) and the University of Oxford (Rogier Mars), and will be conducted at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

The goal of the is to elucidate the role of human prefrontal brain regions in adaptive post-error top-down modulations of attentional and motor functions by combining transcranial magnetic stimulation with electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. 

You should have a doctoral degree in a relevant field and a consistently strong academic record, including publications in international journals, and demonstrate excellent data analysis skills. Experience with TMS, EEG/MEG and/or functional or diffusion-weighted MRI is considered an advantage. 

The Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC) is one of three research centers of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (www.ru.nl/donders). The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour offers cognitive neuroscientists a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with opportunities for developing expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. The institute is equipped with three MRI scanners (7T, 3T, 1.5T), a 275-channel MEG system, an EEG-TMS laboratory, several (MR-compatible) EEG systems, and high-performance computational facilities. The project is embedded within the research theme “Perception, Action and Control”, http://www.ru.nl/donders/research/theme-2-perception/.

Conditions of employment are as follows. Employment: 0,8 - 1,0 fte; Salary scale: 11; duration of the contract: 6 months, extendable to 3 years. Maximum salary per month, based on a fulltime employment: € 4,374 gross/month. The minimum salary for the postdoctoral position is €3,195. The initial salary depends on relevant work experience. You will be ranked in the Dutch university job-ranking system (UFO) as a Researcher, level 3. The appointment as a postdoctoral researcher is initially for 6 months and will be extended by another 2.5 years after positive evaluation.

Starting date: as soon as possible. 

Additional Information can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger. E-mail: m.ullsperger at donders.ru.nl; Telephone: +31 24 3612545, +31 24 3610884 

Please apply for the position (mention the vacancy number 24.22.11) before 1 November, 2011, by sending your application –preferably by email– to: 

Radboud University Nijmegen      
Faculty of Social Sciences
Human Resource Department 
P.O. Box 9104 
6500 HE NIJMEGEN
The Netherlands
E-mail: vacancies at socsci.ru.nl