The Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) stands for cutting-edge international research and groundbreaking treatment concepts in psychiatry, psychotherapy, child and adolescent psychiatry, psychosomatics and addiction medicine.

The Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience (Scientific Director: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Dr. h. c. Herta Flor) is looking for a talented, highly motivated postdoctoral fellow, to join a multimodal human neuroimaging research group with strong roots in experimental psychology.

Our BMBF funded research examines neural circuits underlying chronic musculoskeletal pain. In the current project we focus on the improvement of the treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain disorders through a personalized therapy approach with cross-disease multilevel diagnostics and mechanism-oriented interventions. We employ learning models and machine learning approaches to improve patient stratification. Our methods concentrate on experimental psychological designs, neuropsychological assessments, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), and peripheral physiology

 

Our requirements

• Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience or related fields
• Experience in at least one of the imaging modalities (fMRI, MEG, EEG, fNIRS)
• Excellent teamwork, time management and organizational skills
• Expertise in statistics (R, JASP, SPSS) and experimental designs (Presentation,
  Matlab)
• Programming skills (Matlab, Python) and experience with neuroimaging analysis software (e. g. FSL, SPM, FreeSurfer)
• Strong publication record in peer-reviewed scientific journals
• German language skills are an advantage

 

Responsibilities

• Become part of a multidisciplinary team working on psychobiological and clinical research questions
• Participation in grant writing and scientific publications
• Participation to clinical interviews and questionnaires as well as patient recruitment
• Presentation of study-related outcomes at key scientific meetings

 

What you can expect

• An interesting job in a clinical center and leading research institute
• Pleasant colleagues and a friendly working atmosphere
• Departmental introduction and familiarization
• Internal and external further education and training opportunities
• Job ticket
• Good accessibility and central location in the heart of Mannheim
• Good compatibility of work and family
• Remuneration according to TV-L and the associated social benefits according to the collective bargaining regulations of the public service

Severely disabled, who are equally qualified will be preferred. Salary is based on the German TV-L pay scale, including the social benefits of the German public service sector

 

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Herta Flor, email: Herta.Flor@zi-mannheim.de, phone number +49 621 1703-6302 or Martin Löffler, email: Martin.Loeffler@zi-mannheim.de +49 621 1703-6349. We are pleased to receive your application via the online career portal until April, 15^th, 2022 (MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "secure-web.cisco.com" claiming to be https://jobs.zi-mannheim.de/Vacancies/508/Description/1) .