Job ID: 123178
Cognitive Neuroscience PhD position in Potsdam / Berlin (Germany)
Position: Ph.D. Student
Deadline: 15 July 2025
Employment Start Date: 15 September 2025
Contract Length: 3 years
City: Potsdam
Country: Germany
Institution: Health and Medical University Potsdam
Department: Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior
Description:
We are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to join a project in the field of cognitive neuroscience / cognitive modeling. The PhD position is part of the project “Understanding intra- and interindividual variation in human metacognition”, involving in particular:
• EEG
• Time-resolved neural correlates of confidence (EEG)
• Computational modeling of confidence
• Relationship between computational parameters of metacognition and personality
See also: gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/550113793?language=en
Requirements:
• Master degree in psychology, (cognitive/computational) neuroscience, computer science, physics or related subject
• Good to very good programming skills (e.g. Python/R/Matlab)
• Good to very good programming skills (e.g. Python/R/Matlab)
• Excellent writing and communication skills (English)
In addition, experience in one or more of the following fields is beneficial:
• EEG
• Cognitive modeling
• Experience in metacognition / confidence research
• Open science (preregistration, open code, etc)
• Web-based experiments
Location:
Health and Medical University Potsdam
Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior
health-and-medical-university.de
What we offer:
– An exciting area of research.
– Secure PhD funding for 3 years (65% position).
– Work at a lovely location in Potsdam, just south-west of Berlin (close to Potsdam Hauptbahnhof).
– Benefit from a flourishing neuroscience community in and around Berlin.
PI / Supervisor:
Matthias Guggenmos
Professor for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Health and Medical University Potsdam
Institute for Mind, Brain and Behavior
coconeuro.github.io
Please send your application (motivation + CV) in one pdf file (English or German) to:
matthias.guggenmos@hmu-potsdam.de
Please feel free to use this email address for any questions prior to a potential application.
Deadline: July 15th 2025
Start of the position: August – October 2025