Job ID: 54852
PhD student project studying stress, behaviour and metabolism interaction
Position: Ph.D. Student
Deadline: 9 July 2021
Employment Start Date: 1 October 2021
Contract Length: 3 years
City: München
Country: Germany
Institution: Max Planck Institute of Psychiantry
Department: Neurobiology of Stress Resilience
Description:
At the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry clinicians and scientists are working in close cooperation on the causes of complex diseases of the brain and the search for new ways of their treatment. For this, besides a modern clinic with all facilities and equipment required for patient care and research, there are well equipped laboratories available. Here, neurobiological research methods, from behavioral studies to molecular genetics, can be applied. We aim to optimize the benefit of research for the patients by way of close and innovative networking of basic research oriented and clinical neuroscience.
The Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany is one of the leading research institutes worldwide focusing on the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders with a truly translational approach, combining both clinical and basic research in the same Institute.
Task, techniques and methods
- Master of Sciences in neurobiology, physiology or a related field
- Experience in working with mouse models
- Strong interest to understand the biological mechanisms underlying stress-related disorders
- Experience in standard lab techniques
- Strong interest in working with complex data sets. Previous experience in programming (R, python, Matlab) will be beneficial
- Ability to work in a team
- Excellent skills in spoken and written English
- The multi-disciplinary environment in the research group fosters close collaborations between basic scientists as well as clinicians
- State-of-the-art facilities, including a new animal facility
- Access to numerous scientific core units, including virus production, electrophysiology, mass spectrometry, animal neuroimaging and proteomics
- Computational infrastructure supplied by the Max Planck Computing & Data Facility
- Travel budget to visit national and international conferences or workshops
- The Max Planck Society offers a variety of soft skill and career-oriented courses for post-docs open to the successful applicant
- Flexible work hours and the opportunity for occasional home office
- Full-time PhD student position for 3 years, fully funded for salary and consumables (Salary is calculated according to the collective agreement for public service employees (Tarifvertrag für den öffentlichen Dienst – TVöD-Bund))
- Social benefits are paid in compliance with the regulations of the Max Planck Society
- Very good connection to the Munich transport association (job ticket)
Please visit our homepage for further information: www.psych.mpg.de
We look forward to your Online-Application.