Job ID: 121853

Postdoc position in fMRI research

Position: Post-doctoral Position

Deadline: 28 February 2025

Employment Start Date: 1 May 2025

Contract Length: 3 years

City: Basel

Country: Switzerland

Institution: University of Basel

Department: Psychiatry

Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral scientist for the project “Investigating the role of NMDA receptor hypofunction in psychosis using neuroimaging across scales and species”, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project will use cutting-edge fMRI methodology in combination with computational modeling to investigate the effects of reduced NMDA-receptor function on visual processing in healthy human volunteers under pharmacological challenge with ketamine and in patients diagnosed with anti-NMDA-receptor encephalitis. The project is part of a collaborative consortium with researchers in Berlin and Münster, Germany.

The research focus of the Translational Psychiatry Lab at University of Basel is to improve the understanding of the neuronal mechanisms underlying psychosis and related disorders. The lab uses state-of-the-art neuroimaging techniques such as fMRI and EEG as well as psychophysics, eye tracking, transcranial magnetic stimulation and computational modelling.

For more information see Stellenangebot Postdoc 100% Translational Psychiatry Lab bei Universitäre Psychiatrische Kliniken Basel UPK