Applications are invited for full-time employment in the Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (CANLAB) of Martin Walter MD PhD, embedded in the Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology and the department of psychiatry of the Otto-von-Guericke University. The position requires experience with functional MRI, computational modeling or task designs triggering complex emotional and cognitive interactions. The candidate should have a PhD or equivalent preferably in psychology, psychiatry, biology or neuroscience and should be able to supervise experiments and data analyses in programming platforms. The candidate should be able to perform and coordinate a designated research project within a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary framework and should have experiences in the field of affective neuroimaging. Moreover, a genuine interest in the clinical relevance of current neuroimaging developments is highly appreciated.

The Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (Head: M. Walter) focuses on high-field imaging of emotional processing. Our main aim is to understand the susceptibility for (ongoing) psychiatric illnesses and our focus is on cognitive-emotional integration, resting state functional MRI and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in both unipolar and bipolar depression and our work includes analyses of other physiological dimensions. Experience of MRI data analysis is therefore necessary and experience in state of the art functional connectivity analysis of non-invasive imaging data is highly desirable. Furthermore, knowledge of modeling approaches to understand abnormal cost- and benefit balance of motivated behavior in affective disorders is would be considered beneficial.

The Clinical Affective Neuroimaging Laboratory (Head: M. Walter) focuses on high-field imaging of emotional processing. Our main aim is to understand the susceptibility for (ongoing) psychiatric illnesses and our focus is on cognitive-emotional integration, resting state functional MRI and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in both unipolar and bipolar depression and our work includes analyses of other physiological dimensions. Experience of MRI data analysis is therefore necessary and experience in state of the art functional connectivity analysis of non-invasive imaging data is highly desirable. Furthermore, knowledge of modeling approaches to understand abnormal cost- and benefit balance of motivated behavior in affective disorders is would be considered beneficial.

The position is on the TV-L scale for public employees, with scales depending on age and experience. The position runs at least for 2 years. Applications with a cover letter and CV including publication list, or preliminary informal enquiries, may be sent to martin.walter@med.ovgu.de or visit www.canlab.de. Please provide a telephone number and times to contact you if you wish an informal discussion.

!!! Meet us also personally at the 19th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), June 16-20, 2013 in Seattle, USA !!!