Postdoctoral research fellow 'Computational neurophysiology of human motivation'

This CHEMCONTROL postdoctoral project studies human motivation, value-based decisions and cognitive control through experimental design, intracranial recordings, single-neuron and local-field-potential analyses, and computational behavioural models. The researcher joins Roshan Cools’s group at the Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and collaborates with Florian Mormann’s group in Bonn for intracranial data collection and analysis. Employment is through Radboudumc Psychiatry in the Netherlands. The appointment is 32–36 hours weekly for one year, with a prospect of extension.

Completed or nearly completed PhD in computational cognitive neuroscience, biomedical engineering or a related discipline; neurophysiological analysis experience, quantitative and programming skills, and interest or experience in behavioural modelling. Fluent academic English is required; Dutch is not. A certificate of conduct is required.