Job ID: 119778

Researcher in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience

Position: Ph.D. Student

Deadline: 3 August 2024

Employment Start Date: 2 September 2024

Contract Length: indefinite

City: Ljubljana

Country: Slovenia

Institution: University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts

Department: Department of Psychology

Description:

The Mind & Brain Lab, in collaboration with the Psychological and Neuroscientific Aspects of Cognition research programme at the Department of Psychology, University of Ljubljana, is looking for a candidate for a research position starting in September 2024.

Under the supervision of Grega Repovš and Anja Podlesek, the work will focus on the preparation, coordination, implementation, and data analysis of studies in the field of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The work will include the development and implementation of EEG and fMRI signal analysis methods, with a focus on their integration in the study of functional connectivity and functional brain integration, and the design and implementation of eye-tracker studies.

Given the wide range of tasks involved, we are looking for candidates with a variety of backgrounds and experience and, above all, a willingness and desire to pursue further training in these areas of research. We welcome candidates with background and interests in working memory, cognitive control, attention, emotion regulation and related areas of cognition, as well as candidates with  methodological and technical skills and experience in statistics, neuro- and bioinformatics, computational modelling, machine learning, programming and signal analysis in Matlab, R, python, bash. For these reasons, the call is open to candidates from a wide range of backgrounds, from psychology and cognitive science to computer science and statistics.

A PhD and a corresponding academic title are an added advantage.

To apply for the post, please, send a written application with a resume and proof of meeting the requirements (certificate of education) to the email address: kadrovskasluzba@ff.uni-lj.si by August 3rd 2024. For the full call details, see the PDF (in Slovene).

Contact person: Petra Švegl, phone: +386 1 241 10 28, email: kadrovskasluzba@ff.uni-lj.si.

Informal enquiries are also welcome at grega.repovs@ff.uni-lj.si.