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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-transform: uppercase; widows: 1; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">4-YEAR POSTDOC POSITION IN COGNITIVE AND/OR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE (NEUROMODULATION, AGING, AND COGNITION)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience of TU Dresden's Psychology Dept. and the university's Neuroimaging Center seek to fill the following position within a Collaborative
Research Center (“Sonderforschungsbereich” SFB 940) that is founded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </strong></span></p>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;"> TU Dresden, Germany</strong></p>
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<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px;">Postdoctoral Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or Computational Neuroscience</strong></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">The position could start on <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sept. 1st, 2016</strong> and entails <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">100%</strong> of the fulltime weekly hours and is fixed-term for <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">4
years</strong>. The period of employment is governed by §2Fixed Term Research Contract Act (Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz – WissZeitVG). Payment is according to the nationally agreed scale <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">E-13 TV-L</strong>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">The to-be-filled position in this announcement will be associated with <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">SFB940-Project B3 </strong> on <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Aging
and Neuromodulation of Complementary Control Processes</em></strong>. The project will conduct pharmaco-fMRI studies in younger and older adults to investigate how aging may moderate dopamine modulation of complementary control processes in tasks subserved
by the frontal-hippocampal-striatal circuitries (e.g., perceptual, spatial, and dynamic decision tasks).</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">In its 2nd funding period the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Collaborative Research Center “Volition and Cognitive Control” (SFB 940)</strong> comprises of 14 projects with a budget of over 10 Mill. € (<a href="http://www.sfb940.de/de/home.html">http://www.sfb940.de/de/home.html</a>).
The center combines expertise from experimental psychology, biological psychology, cognitive-affective neuroscience, lifespan developmental neuroscience, clinical psychology and psychiatry to investigate cognitive and neural mechanisms of volitional control,
the development and aging of these mechanisms, and volitional dysfunctions in selected mental disorders. The Collaborative Research Center and the TU Dresden (which is one of the 11 Universities of Excellence selected by the German Research Foundation and
the German Council of Science and Humanities) provide an outstanding scientific infrastructure and ideal environment for interdisciplinary cooperation. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Tasks: </strong>The successful applicant will work together with the principle investigators of the project in supervising Ph.D. students and will oversee the executions of neuroimaging
experiments, conduct model-based imaging data analyses, as well as prepare manuscripts and conference presentations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Requirements: </strong>A doctorate degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Medicine or related disciplines. Strong backgrounds in conducting and analyzing
structural and functional imaging data. We particularly seek applicants who also have experiences in computational modeling and/or advanced imaging data analyses. Applications from women are welcome. The same applies to people with disabilities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;">Complete applications (including a CV, a short research statement, names and emails of 2 to 3 referees, and 2 to 3 representative articles) should be sent preferably as one PDF-document via email with “Application-Postdoc-SFB-B3”
in the subject header to <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Prof. Shu-Chen Li, Ph.D. (<a href="mailto:Shu-Chen.Li@tu-dresden.de">Shu-Chen.Li@tu-dresden.de</a>) and Prof. Dr. med. Michael Smolka (<a href="mailto:Michael.Smolka@tu-dresden.de">Michael.Smolka@tu-dresden.de</a>)</strong>.
Please note that we are currently not able to receive electronically signed and encrypted data. Initial deadline of application is <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">July 20th, 2016 </strong>(stamped arrival date of TU Dresden central E-mail service
applies); however, the search process will continue until the position is filled.</span></p>
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