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FUNDED Ph.D. CANDIDATE POSITION – NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Group

Job Summary

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is not linked to a specific project; the PhD student will work on research projects with the Neurobiology of Language research group. The research project seeks to examine the involvement of first-order thalamic relay nuclei on the main language systems. We are interested in the fusion of multimodal information from different neuroimaging techniques [(functional and structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) as well as electroencephalography (EEG)] to investigate the contribution of thalamic nuclei and thalamic-cortico/cerebellar interactions to language by means of utilizing reading, speech comprehension and speech production research tasks.

Job Description

Job description: The selected candidate will develop and run behavioral and neuroimaging experiments, analyze data, and disseminate the results in scientific conferences (presentations/posters) and peer-reviewed journals.

PI and research group: candidate will form part of the Neurobiology of Language research group (https://www.bcbl.eu/en/research/research-groups/neurobiology-language) led by Prof. Manuel Carreiras (m.carreiras@bcbl.eu), who will also be the main supervisor.

Benefits

Salary: 16.640€ gross/year (year 1 and 2); 17.830€ gross/year 3; 22.290€ gross/year 4

Entitlements and other benefits: https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/what-is-like-to-work-bcbl

Training opportunities and Career development plan:

Researchers at any stage of their career, regardless of their contractual situation, are given an opportunity for professional development and for improving their employability through access to a Personal Career Development Plan which includes:

(1) Training through individually personalized research projects under senior supervision

(2) Exchanging knowledge with the scientific community and the general public

(3) Network-wide training in theory and methods

(4) Complementary training courses

(5) Involvement in proposal writing, task coordination

(6) Development of skills for the organization of training and scientific events

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APPLICATION PROCESS

Potential candidates are invited to take part in the MCIN-Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; AEI Agencia Estatal de Investigación Call for PhD Students expected for December 2022. Before applying, interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact the PI(s) of the corresponding project in order to express their interest, discuss their potential fit for the position, and request any clarifications about the position and/or the project. Note that each candidate can apply to only 1 (one) project. The BCBL admin team will support potential candidates within the application process once the MCIN-Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación; AEI Agencia Estatal de Investigación Call for PhD Students is open.

PI: Prof. Manuel Carreiras (l.arieta@bcbl.eu)


https://www.bcbl.eu/es/unete-a-nosotros/ofertas-trabajo/funded-phd-candidate-position-neurobiology-language-group-1