The position is based in the Predictive Brain Department, a newly established unit within the Faculty of Psychology. Our mission is to accelerate understanding of how perception, consciousness, and memory emerge from neural circuits, and how predictive processes shape experience and behavior in real-world contexts. The department brings together an international and multicultural team of researchers (m,f,x) from psychology, medicine, computer science, physics, mathematics and biology. It is part of the Research Center One Health within the Research Alliance Ruhr, with strong national and international collaborations supported by third-party funding.
Your tasks:
- Conduct independent and collaborative research within the project
- Analyze and integrate multimodal human neuroscience data
- Develop and apply computational models of memory and consciousness
- Design and carry out behavioral experiments, including online studies
- Publish results in high-impact international journals
- Contribute to open science by sharing tools, code, and data
- Engage in interdisciplinary collaboration with international project partners
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Benefits
- Flexible working hours with consideration for study times
- Challenging and varied tasks with a high level of independence
- Employment at one of the largest universities in Germany within the University Alliance Ruhr
- Collaboration in a committed and appreciative team
- Support in combining family life and work (including childcare arrangements/holiday offers/
- Possibility of extension pending favorable review and funding
Requirements
- PhD in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, or related fields
- Strong publication record in the neuroscience of memory and/or consciousness
- Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary setting
- Very good command of English; good command of German as necessary for institutional and collaborative contexts
- International collaboration experience is an advantage
- Demonstrated expertise in intracranial EEG (iEEG) and/or fMRI
- Strong skills in computational modeling and advanced data analysis
- Commitment to open science, including code and data sharing
- Research focus on memory or consciousness (advantage for candidates with expertise in both)
- Experience with behavioral paradigms, ideally including online studies
- Track record of publications in internationally recognized journals in the relevant field
Application Deadline
October 20, 2025How To Apply
Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to
Ruhr University Bochum on jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de to apply
For more information, kindly visit Ruhr-University Bochum scholarship webpage.
