Postdoc in NUS Singapore
National University of Singapore
The Decision Lab in the Department of Psychology and Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS), National University of Singapore (www.rongjunyu.org) has openings for two postdocs (funded by the MOE Tier 2).
Primary responsibilities for postdocs involve data analyses and manuscript preparation for studies using EEG/fMRI to investigate decision making in children and young/older adults.
Essential qualifications for postdocs: PhD in neuroscience, psychology, or related field. Prior experience with EEG/fMRI data analysis is required. The successful candidate also should have strong writing skills and the ability to work independently as well as collaboratively. The start date is flexible. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. The salary is highly competitive for strong candidates.
Essential qualifications for PhD candidates: background in psychology or related field. Strong interest in research in social psychology or neuroimaging (fMRI/EEG/fNIRS).
Please send inquiries and CVs to Dr. Rongjun Yu (psyyr@nus.edu.sg).
Postdoc at University of Oxford and University of Birmingham
University of Oxford and University of Birmingham
2.5 year postdoc position in social decision neuroscience. The position will involve analysing and writing up novel datasets already collected in young adults, older adults and patients with medial prefrontal lesions, as well as designing, analysing and writing up new experiments. The post is supervised by Dr. Patricia Lockwood in close collaboration with Profs Matthew Rushworth, Masud Husain and Christian Ruff. Start date from 1st January 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter. If you would like to discuss more details please send me an email.
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Tenure track Assistant professorship in Behavioural Economics, especially Neuroeconomics
University of Amsterdam, CREED
The Amsterdam School of Economics (ASE) of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) has a Tenure track Assistant professorship in Behavioural Economics, especially Neuroeconomics.
The position is within the Microeconomics section of ASE. This section covers three different research programs: Experimental & Political Economics (CREED), Human Capital, and Markets & Organizations. The Microeconomics section is responsible for teaching most microeconomics related courses at the BSc and MSc level.
Candidates are expected to contribute to both research and teaching. Teaching will be at the undergraduate and the graduate level. Non-Dutch speakers are free to teach in English. Research should be aimed at international top journals, in line with the research fellow criteria of the Tinbergen Institute (meeting these criteria is a condition for tenure).
A large part of the teaching will be in neuroeconomics related courses that are part of the Neuroeconomics track of the MSc in Business Economics; yet candidates are expected to be able to teach other microeconomics courses as well.
Specifications
max. 38 hours per week
€4018—€4978 per month
Amsterdam
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University of Amsterdam (UvA)
REQUIREMENTS
Candidates should have or be close to completing a PhD in Economics and have strong skills in Neuroeconomic methods. Candidates with a PhD in one of the core disciplines of Neuroeconomics (e.g., Psychology, Neuroscience) and with a demonstrably strong background in Economics are also encouraged to apply. All candidates will be evaluated on their potential for and/or record of excellence in research and teaching.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
Fixed-term contract: six years.
The successful candidate will be offered a six year tenure track position as Assistant professor. Upon meeting the criteria for tenure, a permanent contract as Associate professor will be offered. For more information see the link below.
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https://www.academictransfer.com/en/286303/tenure-track-assistant-professorship-in-behavioural-economics-especially-neuroeconomics/
Come work with us in Braincity Berlin: 3 year Postdoc on memory and reinforcement learning
Freie Universität Berlin
Hey @SocforNeuroecon #SNE2019: We‘re hiring! 3 year Postdoc @CCNBerlin @FU_Berlin Project on interaction of memory and reinforcement learning in value-based choice in collaboration with #Ulman.Lindenberger @mpib_berlin Find me at the conference (DM or email). Appl DL Oct 15
3 year project in cooperation with the Developmental Psychology Research Unit at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development. conduct neuroscientific studies comparing age (children, adolescents, adults) on the interactions of memory and reinforcement learning in value-based decisions. A multimodal, model-based MRI approach (fMRI, DTI, quantitative multi-parameter mapping, behavioral modeling) is combined with a developmental approach.
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PhD in Management at INSEAD & PhD in Psychology/ Neuroscience?
INSEAD
INSEAD Business School‘s PhD program now accepts applications for September 2020 : www.insead.edu/phd. NEW: we offer an option for a Dual PhD in psychology / neuroscience jointly with Sorbonne University after successful completion of the first two years of INSEAD‘s program.
Link:
www.insead.edu/phd
PhD positions
Dartmouth College
The Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (CCNL) at Dartmouth has openings for two enthusiastic graduate students to work on exciting projects on reward-based learning and decision making. One of the projects (funded by NIH) involves close collaboration with Alicia Izquierdo's lab at UCLA to investigate circuit-level neural mechanisms of adaptive learning. Starting date for one of the positions can be as early as Jan 2020 and the other position begins Sep 2020. A few recent relevant papers include:
1. Soltani A, Izquierdo A (2019). Adaptive Learning under Expected and Unexpected Uncertainty.
Nature Reviews Neuroscience.
2. Farashahi S, Donahue C, Hayden B, Lee D, Soltani A (2019). Flexible Combination of Reward Information across Primates. Nature Human Behaviour.
3. Stolyarova A, Rakhshan M, Peters MA, Lau H, Soltani A, Izquierdo A (2019). Contributions of Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Basolateral Amygdala to Learning and Choice under Perceptual Uncertainty. Nature Communications (accepted) [available on bioRxiv, 655860]
For more recent publications from the lab please visit http://ccnl.dartmouth.edu
Interested students please contact Alireza Soltani (soltani@dartmouth.edu).
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