"Professorship for research on Computational Psychiatry (W3) (m/f/d)"

Professorship for research on Computational Psychiatry (W3) (m/f/d)

This full professorship is available at the Medical Faculty of Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), to be filled as soon as possible. The Medical Faculty at RUB covers all branches of modern medicine from bench to bedside and is in close cooperation with other departments of the University such as psychology, biology, informatics with one focus on neuroscience.

The Ruhr-University Bochum Hospital (UK RUB) is made up of qualified hospitals and specialist medical facilities in the Bochum, Herne and East Westphalia-Lippe region that cooperate with RUB. The UK-RUB stands for patient care at the highest level and excellent research and teaching in university medicine.

Your Responsibilities

The successful applicant should have a strong background in computational approaches and/or machine learning, with expertise in neuroscientific approaches like human neuroimaging, particularly with respect to psychiatric disorders. The candidate will be embedded into lively scientific interactions with clinical scientists in psychiatry, as well as theoretical, neuroscientific, and psychological research groups of the RUB.

Our research landscape spans the RUB and the neighboring University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) with a strong track record of acquiring major extramural support for collaborative research funds in cognitive and clinical neuroscience (e.g., SFB 1280 (RUB), TRR 289 (UDE), FOR 2812 (RUB), FOR 2974 (UDE), research building THINK (RUB), ELH Institute for 7T MRI (UDE)). We would welcome a research focus that contributes to these scientific fields and fosters collaborations across scientific disciplines and institutions.

Your Qualifications

Among the prerequisites for the post are a doctoral degree in medicine, psychology, neuroscience or a related field, a positive evaluation as a junior professor, habilitation or equivalent scientific achievements, a strong aptitude for interdisciplinary scientific work, as evidenced by a strong track record in excellent publications, peer-reviewed extramural funding as principal applicant, and a collaborative spirit.

Option: Since the specific setting of the professorship should be a translational one, an office and the usage of further facilities within the hospital will be provided. Scientific cooperation with other preclinical and clinical research groups of the Dept. of Psychiatry is expected as well as an integration within its teaching programs. Depending on qualification and interest of the candidate, a part-time clinical appointment would be possible.

Attractive Environment

The professorship is part of an initiative for an interdisciplinary integration of research in Cognitive Neuroscience at RUB and UDE. It is associated with 4h/week teaching per term. Beyond this, the hiring requirements of Sections 36 and 37 of the North Rhine-Westphalia Higher Education Act (Gesetz über die Hochschulen des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, HG) apply. The professorship will be part of the newly established Research Center One Health Ruhr – from Molecules to Systems.

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