Connectionists: Two PhD positions on prefrontal activity and reward learning

[Dominik Endres]

At the Department of Psychology, Philipps-University of Marburg, 
 the research group on Differential Psychology and Personality of Prof. Dr. Müller is 
currently accepting applications for two 

Research Assistants (PhD student) 

subject to final acceptance of the grant proposal by the DFG. 
The positions are offered for a period of 4 years, if no former times of qualification must 
be considered. The starting date is as soon as possible. The positions are part-time (75 % 
of regular working hours) with salary and benefits commensurate with a public service 
position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13).

The positions are a part of the project A07 “The role of dopamine, reward learning and 
prefrontal activity in expectation-induced mood enhancement” within the proposed 
Collaborative Research Center “The impact of expectation on health outcome”. The project 
investigates effects of reward learning, dopamine and personality traits on placebo effects 
in the context of depressive symptoms. Key research methodologies are: 

pharmacological manipulations, EEG-recordings, and computational modeling. 


One position will focus on placebo effects an depressive symptoms, the other position on 
computational modeling. Duties include scientfic work in the project, in particular 
planning, execution and evaluation of psychopharmacological EEG-studies under the 
supervision of Prof. Dr. Erik Müller and Prof. Dr. Dominik Endres (research group on 
Theoretical Cognitive Science).


Feel free to contact mailto: erik.mueller at staff.uni.marburg.de for more information. 

The full job advert can be found here:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/universitaet/administration/verwaltung/dezernat2/
personalabteilung/bewerber/stellen/wissenschaftliche-stellen/fb04-0022-wmz-220520-
engl.pdf[1] 

Please send your application mentioning the registration number fb04-0022-wmz-2020 
including a letter of motivation, recent C.V. with list of publications, two potential referees 
and list of skills and
experiences as a single PDF to the Faculty of Psychology, Herrn Prof. Dr. Erik Müller, 
erik.mueller at uni-marburg.de, deadline 22nd May 2020.


-- 
Prof. Dr. Dominik Endres
AE Theoretische Neurowissenschaft
Allgemeine und Biologische Psychologie
FB Psychologie, Gutenbergstr 18, 35032 Marburg, Germany 
Tel. +49-(0)6421-28-23818

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[1] https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/universitaet/administration/verwaltung/dezernat2/
personalabteilung/bewerber/stellen/wissenschaftliche-stellen/fb04-0022-wmz-220520-
engl.pdf
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