Doctoral Researcher (f/m/d, Nr. 350-26)

Location

Essen

Application area

Erwin L. Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (ELH)

Doctoral Researcher (f/m/d, Nr. 350-26)

EG 13 TV-L (gross 44.493 € - 63.239 €)

Subject to the approval and funding of the DFG-funded Research Unit Layers of Memory, a PhD position for a scientific researcher is available for the integrated acquisition and analysis of laminar fMRI data acquired from the hippocampus and associated regions. This project is one of eight projects that make up the Layers of Memory Unit. It is a collaboration between the Universities of Duisburg-Essen, Magdeburg, and Salzburg. One scientific researcher supervised by Prof. Dr. David Norris (ELH) and one post-doc, supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Kronbichler (Salzburg), will work on this project. There will be a close integration with all projects of the Unit, but especially with the methodological projects supervised by Prof. Dr. Oliver Speck (Magdeburg).

Start of employment

2027-01-01

Duration of employment

4 years

Working time

29h 52min (75% part-time employment)

Your main tasks

• Participate in the development of acquisition protocols for high resolution fMRI of the medial temporal lobe (MTL).
• Play a leading role in the first travelling heads study to obtain and benchmark laminar fMRI data.
• Develop analysis methods to obtain laminar activation profiles and identify their relationship with histological boundaries.
• Demonstrate and validate connectivity analyses for layer-to-layer connectivity patterns within and between cortical regions.
• Share and develop analysis pipelines with the other projects in the Research Unit.

Your profile

• A Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Physics, Biomedical Engineering or a related discipline.
• Some prior knowledge of MRI methods would be an advantage.