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Grit Hein

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Würzburg, Germany
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Oct 20, 2024

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Grit Hein

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Job Description

The Translational Social Neuroscience Unit at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU) in Würzburg, Germany is offering a 2-year 100% postdoc position in social neuroscience. The unit studies the psychological and neurobiological processes underlying social interactions and decisions. Current studies investigate drivers of human social behavior such as empathy, social norms, group membership, and egoism, as well as the social modulation of anxiety and pain processing. The unit uses neuroscientific methods (functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography) and psychophysiological measures (heart rate, skin conductance), combined with experimental paradigms from cognitive and social psychology and simulations of social interactions in virtual reality. The unit also studies social interactions in everyday life using smartphone-based surveys and mobile physiological sensors. The position is initially limited until September 30, 2025 with the option for extension.

Requirements

  • The candidate should have a background in psychology
  • social neuroscience
  • cognitive neuroscience or cognitive science with a successfully completed PhD. Experience with computational modeling (e.g.
  • reinforcement learning models) and the respective software (e.g. MATLAB/ R programming) is ideal. Experience with the collection and analysis of empirical data (ideally including neuroscience data) and excellent language skills in English and preferably also in German are required. The research topics are subject to the fits between the candidate’s research interests
  • expertise
  • and ongoing projects in the research group
  • particularly the DFG-funded research project on learning and intergroup processes.