Research Assistant

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Applications are invited for three positions as research assistant at NatMEG - the National Facility for Magnetoencephalography, Karolinska Institutet. The position is ideal for a person with an interest in a future career in neuroscience, especially within the MEG and/or EEG fields.

NatMEG is the first and only research laboratory in Sweden for whole-head measurements of neuronal brain activity using magnetoencephalography (MEG). The NatMEG lab was inaugurated in October 2013, and is a national facility, available for researchers from across Sweden. Because of the lab’s national function, projects at NatMEG span across the areas of instrumentation (e.g. on-scalp MEG sensors), clinical applications (epilepsy evaluations), clinical neuroscience (e.g. Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, ADHD, autism, hypertension, and preterm infants) and cognitive neuroscience (e.g. memory, language, attention, perception, pain, music, decision making, emotion recognition).

Your mission

The successful candidates will work with on-site training and support of NatMEG’s users, aid users in developing experimental protocols, collecting and analyzing MEG data, as well as with the technical maintenance of the MEG lab and management of lab bookings and invoicing. The candidates will work with projects involving children, adults, and elderly, from both healthy and clinical populations.

Your profile

We are looking for candidates who wants to work in the field of cognitive and clinical neuroscience, and has a strong interest in MEG. The applicants should have a documented experience from brain imaging (at least MEG, but preferably also MRI, PET, or EEG), within neuroscience research and/or clinical applications. The applicants should also have a documented experience from hands-on MEG data collection and data analysis, preferably from an Elekta/MEGIN Triux system. The successful candidates are independent, professional, and service minded, and enjoys interacting with researchers and research participants. The candidates should master academic English and it's an advantage if the candidates also has good understanding of spoken and written Swedish. It is considered an advantage if the candidates has a completed a (or is near the end of) a PhD education within psychology, medicine, neuroscience or similar.

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

Application

Welcome to apply at the latest 2021-06-03.

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

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