Connectionists: New PostDoc position in "Explainable Machine / Deep Learning in Translational Psychiatry" at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

[Kerstin Ritter]

Dear all,

John-Dylan Haynes and I offer a new PostDoc position in the field of "Explainable Machine Learning / Deep Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging and Translational Psychiatry" at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (see advertisement below) - please feel free to forward the advertisement to people who may be interested!

Thanks a lot!

Best wishes,
Kerstin Ritter

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Explainable Machine Learning / Deep Learning in Clinical Neuroimaging and Translational Psychiatry

PostDoc position (starting date: July 1st 2022, up to 4 years; 100 %) at Charité - Universitätsmedizin (Berlin, Germany)

At Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, we are looking for a motivated and highly qualified PostDoc for methods development at the intersection of explainable machine learning / deep learning and clinical neuroimaging / translational psychiatry. The position will be located in the research groups of Ass. Prof. Kerstin Ritter and Prof. John-Dylan Haynes at Charité Berlin. The main task will be to predict response to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy in retrospective data and a prospective cohort of patients with internalizing disorders including depression and anxiety from a complex, multimodal data set comprising tabular data as well as imaging data (e.g., clinical data, smartphone data, EEG, structural and functional MRI data). An additional task will be to contribute to the organization and maintenance of the prospective cohort. This study will be one of several projects in the newly established Research Unit 5187 "Precision Psychotherapy" (headed by Prof. Ulrike Lüken).

Requirements for the Postdoc:
- Excellent degree in relevant field (e.g. computer science, mathematics, physics, psychology, computational neuroscience or related).
- Excellent methodological skills (esp. machine learning, deep learning, explainable AI, medical image analysis)
- Excellent programming skills in python
- Excellent writing and communication skills (in English)
- Strong interest in neuroscientific and psychiatric research

Please send your application (motivation+CV+references) in one pdf-file (in English or German) till May 20th to:

Ass. Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Kerstin Ritter
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
Sauerbruchweg 4, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
E-Mail: kerstin.ritter at charite.de
Webpage: https://psychiatrie-psychotherapie.charite.de/en/research/translation_and_neurotechnology/machine_learning/

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