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This is a full-time 4-year position. Salary starts at CHF 47’040.- (Swiss Francs) per year (50’040.-by year 3). The position starts in the Fall 2023 (at a convenient date).
The position entails the writing of a PhD thesis in psychology or neuroscience by producing various scientific papers with Naftali Raz, Ann Daugherty, Cheryl Dahle, based on advanced multivariate analyses of the Detroit Aging Brain Study data (e.g., Daugherty et al., 2015 and Ghisletta et al., 2019). In particular, we will study how multiple indicators
or cognitive performance, MRI-derived structural brain, and vascular and metabolic risk factors are intertwined. State-of-the-art statistical modeling techniques will be applied to longitudinal data to examine age-related change over several years, lead-lag relationships between cognitive and brain variables, and modifying influence of metabolic
and vascular risk factors on these associations and change trajectories.
For more details please see HERE

Taux d’activité : 100%
Lieu : HUG, Genève
Contrat : Durée déterminée (3 ans)
Titres exigés et profil souhaité : Master en psychologie, neurosciences ou médecine. Motivation à réaliser un doctorat dans le domaine de la psychiatrie. Intérêt marqué pour la recherche clinique, connaissances en gestion de bases de données et en statistiques, excellente maîtrise du français et de l’anglais. Inscription à l’Ecole Doctorale Lémanique de Neurosciences.
Tâches : mener un projet de recherche portant sur l’ocytocine et le cortisol salivaire chez les patientes ayant un trouble de la personnalité borderline. Le doctorant participera à toutes les étapes du projet sous supervision, y compris aspects logistiques, recrutement, entretiens, passation de tâches expérimentales, saisie et analyses de données, rédaction d’articles scientifiques et présentations orales. La thèse de doctorat sera codirigée par le Professeur Nader Perroud et la Dre.psych Tatiana Aboulafia Brakha.
Entrée en fonction : 1er Juin 2023 ou à convenir
Rémunération : barème Candoc FNS
Candidature : dossier électronique (lettre de motivation + CV + copie du diplôme de Master et relevé des notes) à envoyer jusqu’au 1er mai 2023 à tatiana.aboulafia@hcuge.ch

Research Assistant, Ph.D. candidate and post-doctoral research positions in quantitative and diffusion MRI are available at LREN, Centre for Research in Neuroscience, CHUV University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland (www.unil.ch/lren).

Under the supervision of Prof Bogdan Draganski the researchers will implement established and develop new methods for feature extraction and statistical analysis of existing large-scale mono-centric longitudinal MRI data (n~1000) from a community-dwelling cohort with 20 years of deep phenotyping for cardio-vascular and mental health factors (www.colaus-psycolaus.ch). The projects use a state-of-the-art infrastructure including a research-dedicated 3T Siemens Prisma MRI scanner in collaboration with LRENs MR Physics (Dr Antoine Lutti), FemiLab (Dr Ann-Marie De Lange) and Methods Groups (Dr Ferath Kherif). Funding is available through national (Swiss National Science Foundation – www.snf.ch, InnoSuisse – www.innosuisse.ch ) and European (www.neuron-eranet.eu/projects/I-See ) competitive grants. How to apply and job descriptions at https://unil.ch/lren/home/menuguid/job-openings.html

Applications are invited for a PhD position financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation at the Laboratoire de Recherche en Neuroimagerie, in the Department of Clinical Neuroscience of the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL). The position is under the supervision of Dr Marzia De Lucia and in collaboration with the Department of Intensive Care Medicine at the Lausanne University Hospital and Inselspital in Bern and the Epilepsy Units at the CHUV and at the Geneva University Hospital.

For more information: https://sites.google.com/view/marziadelucia/job-announcements

The Sensory-Motor Laboratory invites applications for a Postdoc position (full-time , 24 months, salary between CHF 80’000 and CHF 89’600 per year), starting on 01 September 2023 at the latest. 

All dossiers must contain a motivation letter, CV, and letter(s) of support, and must be sent to ionta.silvio@gmail.com by 30 April 2023. After a dossier-based screening, the selected candidates will be interviewed in mid-May, live or online.

Ideal applicants should hold: 
– PhD in Biomedical or Electrical Engineering, Neuroscience, Medicine, Psychology, or any related discipline
– Strong background in non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS and/or TMS)
– High competence in programming, data analysis, and scientific writing

More information: https://iontalab.org/

Who are we? A multidisciplinary research group in clinical neuroscience, involving neurologists, psychologists and engineers. The research focus is on neuropsychiatric diseases and in particular functional neurological disorders. Our methods include MRI brain imaging, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), electrophysiology (EEG, EMG movement recording), biological analyses (genetics, cortisol) and neurobehavioral tasks. Current research group website: https://www.unifr.ch/med/de/research/groups/aybek/

For more information on the job offer please see here.

The Functional Brain Mapping Laboratory (FBMlab, https://neurocenter-unige.ch/research-groups/christoph-michel/) directed by Prof. Christoph Michel, Department of Basic Neurosciences at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, is opening 2 research assistants (RA) positions as a part of a project on Improvement of Autobiographical Memory in Mild Cognitive Impairment, directed by Dr. Lucie Bréchet in collaboration with Prof. Giovanni Frisoni.
Summary of the project
We will evaluate brain activity during autobiographical memory (ABM) ecologically valid tasks using high-density electroencephalography (hdEEG) in cognitively-unimpaired younger and older adults and age-matched individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). We will then employ personalized, multi-channel Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation (tACS) to modulate brain oscillations and evaluate the impact on ABM.
Description
The RAs will recruit healthy participants, prepare the personalized memory tasks, apply tACS and collect behavioral, MRI, and hdEEG data. In addition, the RAs will be in charge of the REDCap database.
Candidate requirements
The ideal candidate must:

• have a MSc degree in neurosciences, psychology, or equivalent
• have an acquired knowledge of basic EEG collection and analysis (at least pre-processing, knowledge of Cartool software ideal)
• be motivated, know how to work independently and in a team
• have a first-level knowledge of programming (Matlab, R, Python)
• have a professional level of French and English
• have a previous solid experience with a healthy and clinical population
• have to work in synergy with personnel at the Memory Center, HUG
  Period
  We offer a competitive UNIGE/HUG salary. The positions are available immediately.
  Contact
  If interested, please contact Dr. Lucie Bréchet (lucie.brechet@unige.ch) and send a motivation letter, CV, diploma, and 1-2 references.