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

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