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Research group/unit

The National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill-Health (NASP) is located at the Karolinska Institutet Solna Campus. NASP is a part of the department of LIME. Since 1993 NASP has been Stockholm County Council’s advisor on suicide research and prevention against mental ill health. Additionally, NASP is a WHO collaboration centre that works together with the European WHO offices in Copenhagen and Geneva on outlining suicide prevention strategies globally.

Your mission

Projects, POTION and EXPERIENCE

This opening is for a research assistant position working with the EU projects “Promoting social interaction through emotional body odours” (POTION) and “The ‘Extended-Personal Reality’: augmented recording and transmission of virtual senses through artificial-IntelligENCE" (EXPERIENCE). Both projects have received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. POTION proposes a novel technological paradigm to delve deeper into understanding meaningful social interaction, combining new knowledge about the chemical composition of human social chemosignals together with a novel olfactory-based technology designed to drive social behaviour. EXPERIENCE’s aim is to create a new Extended-Personal Reality, allowing users to create their own virtual reality (VR) environments, embedded with virtual simulations that elicit unique psychological, cognitive, neurophysiological and behavioural responses. Our role is to explore and evaluate the possibility of using Extended Personal Reality as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool for mental disorders.

Duties

The tasks of the research assistant include collaborating in the scientific work related to these projects, preparing technical materials related to the project including documentation of the actual activities, preparing materials and participation in the technical project meetings, writing reports on the progress of the ongoing projects to the research Consortium, maintaining good communication with partners, assisting in project and financial management and other administrative tasks. The research assistant will also be asked to collaborate on similar tasks in other projects currently ongoing at NASP, including collaborating with other members of the research team in conducing literature reviews, manuscript reviews as well as contributing methodological and scientific input to manuscript writing.

Your profile

The candidate must have an MA in Experimental Psychology or related field. Previous experience in assisting in the project management of EU funded research projects will be considered an asset. Experience and competence in the field of suicide prevention will be highly valued. Competence in statistics and data management is also an important skill that will be considered.

The applicant will be part of a dynamic international research team and should be driven, self-motivated, take initiative, able to think critically, have good communication and problem-solving skills and have excellent organisational skills. The applicant must be able to work as part of an inter-disciplinary team and be able to work according to the deadlines of the International Consortium. The applicant must be fluent in English and have excellent scientific writing skills in English. Knowledge of Swedish is not essential but will be considered. The applicant should be familiar with using Microsoft 365 Office and communications applications. Competence in using statistical software packages (eg; spss, stata, R) is an important added value.

What do we offer?

Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Our vision is to pursue the development of knowledge about life and to promote better health for all. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct innovative medical research and provide the largest range of biomedical education in Sweden. Karolinska Institutet is a state university, which entitles employees to several benefits such as extended holiday and a generous occupational pension. Employees also have free access to our modern gym and receive reimbursements for medical care.

Location: Solna

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LIME

NASP

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Application

Welcome to apply at the latest February 28th 2021.

The application is to be submitted through the Varbi recruitment system.  

Permanent position is initiated by a six months trial period.

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