PhD Research Fellow Position at Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, Norway, Apr 2022

The University of Oslo invites applications for a Ph.D. research fellow candidates with a Master’s degree in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Biology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Section for Cognitive and Clinical neuroscience, Norway – Apr 2022

General Info

Position: PhD Position

No. of Positions: 1

Research Field: Biology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology

Joining Date: ASAP

Contract Period: 3-4 year

Salary: 491,200 NOK/Year

Workplace:
Department of Psychology
University of Oslo, Problemveien, Oslo, Norway

• The candidate must be qualified for admission to the PhD program at the Faculty of Social Science, University of Oslo (https://www.uio.no/english/research/phd/).
• Applicants must hold a Master’s degree in psychology cognitive or computational neuroscience or equivalent in biology, or a related field.
• Experience with statistical analysis and programming in at least one of following languages: Matlab, R, Python, C++/C, Java
• Fluent oral and written communication skills in English, and at least basic understanding of the Norwegian language (or another Scandinavian language)

The following qualifications are advantageous:

• Previous training in brain imaging and biosignal analysis is relevant (e.g. fMRI, EEG, fNIRS dataPrevious experiences especially with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is highly desired in terms of fMRI data acquisition and analysis)
• Optimally, the candidate’s prior work already relates to research activities of the lab in the fields of auditory neuroscience, affective neuroscience, and/or cognitive neuroscience.

Personal skills

• Candidates who are creative, motivated, and organized will be preferred.

The successful applicant will join the lab of Prof. Sascha Frühholz, which is part of the Section for Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience. Our lab studies the neural foundations of emotional processing from various social and environmental signals using a variety of neuroscientific methods (fMRI, EEG, intracranial recordings, psychoacoustic experiments, etc.). For further information, please visit https://www.sv.uio.no/psi/english/people/aca/saschaf/ .

The appointment is a fulltime position available for a period of three to four years. Fellows who are appointed for a period of four years are expected to contribute to teaching and administration with about 25% of their working time.

Teaching and administrative duties would contribute to activities of the Department of Psychology. The position is funded by the Psychology Department of the University of Oslo.

The projects aims to study the neural processes that underlie the perception and classification of emotional signals from natural and synthetic/artificial voices.

The project mainly focusses on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study the neural network that allows healthy humans to detect emotions in various voice signals.

The project especially tries to investigate the neural interactions between the limbic and the auditory system that support the classification of emotions perceived from digital and computer-generated voices.

The applicant will have the opportunity to contribute to the shaping of the research agenda in the topical framework of the project.