Two Postdoctoral Fellows Positions - The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the German Primate Center

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The Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the German Primate Center are looking to fill two positions of 

Postdoctoral fellows 

The postdoctoral fellows will be associated with the Cognitive Ethology Laboratory (Julia Fischer) and the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (Stefan Treue), including the Sensorimotor Group (Alexander Gail) and the Decision and Awareness Group (Igor Kagan). All four units are affiliated with the University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center. 

Both positions are at pay grade 13 TV-L, full-time (currently 39.80 hours per week) for an initial duration of 2 years and are available immediately. 

Your duties The postdoctoral fellows are expected to study social interactions and decision-making in human and non-human primates. The research will be conducted together with other participating groups within the multidisciplinary Research Platform “Primate Cognition” (www.primate-cognition.eu). The main aim of the project is to develop a novel experimental platform for behavioral (and later electrophysiological / stimulation) studies of sensorimotor decision-making in competitive and cooperative social interaction settings, across humans and different non-human primate species. 

Your profile The successful candidates should have a PhD in neuroscience, cognitive science, psychology, or related fields. We are looking for highly motivated, enthusiastic and creative researchers with strong experimental and analytical skills. Demonstrable experience with conducting and analyzing behavioral experiments in humans and/or non-human primates is required; good programming skills and a solid understanding of hardware and software integration in real-time experimental systems is a plus; a prior experience in studying social interactions is of additional value. Good command of written and spoken English is a must, German is a plus. The ability to work in a team and the capacity to supervise students and technical personnel is expected. 

The project is embedded in the recently established Leibniz Science Campus “Primate Cognition” that encompasses a wide range of Goettingen researchers from multiple disciplines, interested in understanding primate cognitive functions. Due to a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of the project, and the recent upsurge of interest in the social aspects of decision-making and goal-directed actions both locally and in the international scientific community, it promises to be very visible. 

The University of Göttingen is an equal opportunities employer and places particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply as they are underrepresented in this field. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favored. 

Please send your application with the usual documents submitted as a single PDF file via email to Dr. Christian Schloegl (CSch...@dpz.eu), with the subject “Application social decision-making”. Application deadline is November 30, 2015. If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Christian Schloegl (CSch...@dpz.eu; phone: +49-551-3851-480).