International PhD Programme at the University of Salzburg
- Last Date :: 9th May 2011 -
International PhD Programme at the University of Salzburg
Imaging the Mind
Consciousness, Higher Mental and Social Processes
PhD Programme at the University of Salzburg Weblink
We are inviting applications for 8 fully funded PhD scholarships in the following interdisciplinary areas: biology, cognitive neurology, cognitive science, linguistics and psychology (clinical, cognitive, developmental and social). Faculty and research projects:
Hubert Haider: psycholinguistics of syntactic processing
Eva Jonas: Neural foundations of mortality awareness and reactance; reactance and perspective taking
Hubert Kerschbaum: sex-dependent differences in stress response and number processing
Wolfgang Klimesch: functional meaning of EEG brain oscillations, sleep and cognition
Gunther Ladurner: dementia (Alzheimers), consciousness in vegetative state
Josef Perner: theory of mind (perspective taking), consciousness, episodic memory
Frank Wilhelm: emotion regulation, stress, neural processes of mental disorders and psychotherapy
Heinz Wimmer: reading and dyslexia
The program will start 1st October 2011 and offers numerous benefits to its students: salary for a period of 3 to 4 years (including health and social insurance), equipped work space, cover of research consumables, specific technological training courses (e.g. fMRI, EEG), presentation, writing and teaching skill training, full funding of congress participation, workshops and international courses, including stays in foreign partner laboratories.
Candidates must hold a master’s degree or equivalent with a relevant specialization in one of the above listed academic areas of the programme at the time of entry. Prior application is possible. The language of the graduate programme (teaching) is English; hence English proficiency is indispensable. The programme strives for equal representation of female PhD students so women are especially encouraged to apply.
Link for Guidelines for application
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