PhD Position in Computational Psychiatry / Machine Learning

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Do you have experience in Research?, Do you have a Master’s degree?, * Master degree in the field of computational neuroscience, data science or a related field

• Excellent coding skills and expertise with high performance computing in big data
• Solid knowledge of multivariate statistics
• Idealy, the candidate also brings specific expertise with analysis of neuroimaging data and/or expertise with mental health / psychiatry research
• Fluency in written and spoken English, strong motivation and scientific rigor

Modern Environment

• Innovative university hospital
• State-of-the-art technology
• World-class international research
• Excellent career prospects

Research

• Cutting-edge research at the highest level
• Support from PhD to professorship

Career & Development

• Structured onboarding
• In-house academy
• Diverse training opportunities
• Targeted career development

Internationality

• Cultural & generational diversity
• Support through language courses
• Integration programmes (nursing)

Equal Opportunities & Diversity

• Active promotion of equality
• Internal committees as a point of contact
• Network for conflict resolution

The Faculty of Medicine is one of the four founding faculties of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. With its non-clinical facilities as well as its research and teaching area corresponding to the organisational units of the University Hospital, it is one of the largest medical training and research institutions in Baden-Württemberg.

Abotu the Research Group of Neurotechnology & Computational Psychiatry The PhD candidate will be part of the Neurotechnology and Computational Psychiatry group at University of Tübingen (PI: Prof. Tobias Kaufmann) and supervised jointly with Prof. Peter Dayan, director of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. The position is part of the Else Kröner Medical Scientist College ‘Artificial intelligence for clinical brain research’ and targets computational advances in disease progression modelling. Specifically, the candidate will deploy novel machine learning models that combine large-scale datasets from biobanks with well-characterized clinical data sets, learning patterns in neuroimaging data that can be leveraged for clinical prediction.