[FieldTrip] Neuroscientist with focus on electrophysiology and imaging in Parkinson disease patients!

[Muthuraman Muthuraman]

Doctoral Student

Neuroscientist with focus on electrophysiology and imaging in Parkinson disease patients

The clinic of neurology, imaging and neurostimulation group (http://imaging-neurostim.com) University of Mainz, Germany, invites applications for a

PhD Student

for a functional translational neuroscience (FTN) scholarship three year position to work on electrophysiology and imaging in Parkinson disease (PD) patients. A project with multimodality usage of modalities like electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to analyze network fingerprints in PD patients.

The successful applicant holds a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant academic area such as basic life sciences, neuropsychology, applied mathematics or biomedical engineering or similar disciplines. German language proficiency is mandatory for communicating with the patients. The working language at the institute is English. Experience with electrophysiology and the analysis of brain signals is advantageous, but not essential. The applicant’s merits are assessed on the basis of the quality of Master’s level studies and thesis, previous experience with the brain imaging, motivation and research interests.

The location for this research will mainly be the workgroups “Section of Movement Disorders, Neurostimulation and Neuroimaging“ of Prof. Sergiu Groppa at the Department of Neurology and “Biomedical Statistics and Multimodal Signal Processing Unit” of Prof. Muthuraman Muthuraman, both at the Focus Program Translational Neurosciences (http://www.ftn.uni-mainz.de/) and Neuroimaging Centre Mainz (http://www.ftn.nic.uni-mainz.de/). Expected close collaborations with national and international partners.

The application should include a statement of research interests, a curriculum vitae (max. 4 pages) composed according to good scientific practice, a certificate of Master’s degree, copy of the master’s thesis and grades of Master’s level studies, the names and e-mail addresses of two referees and a proof of proficiency in English.

The position will be open until filled. To apply for the position, please send the above documents as pdfs until 15.02.2019 to Prof. Sergiu Groppa, and Prof. Muthuraman Muthuraman, Department of Neurology, Section of movement disorders and neurostimulation, University of Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131 Mainz, Germany, or by Email to segroppa(at)uni-mainz.de; mmuthura(at)uni-mainz.de. For additional information please contact Muthuraman Muthuraman.

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