Postdoctoral Researcher in Clinical Neuroscience with a focus on Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

Do you want to contribute to top quality medical research?

Applications are invited for a position as a postdoctoral researcher in clinical neuroscience with a focus on MEG at the national MEG lab NatMEG, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuro division, Karolinska Institutet. The position has a focus on investigating neurodegenerative disorders using EEG, conventional MEG and on-scalp MEG systems.

Your mission

The successful candidate will be a part of a productive and dynamic research environment working with MEG-based brain imaging methods with applications in cognitive and clinical neuroscience. This work entails using EEG and MEG (both conventional and on-scalp) methods and has a particular focus on neurodegenerative disorders. The candidate is also expected to support users at NatMEG, conduct teaching and supervision of students and researchers in the subject.

Your profile

To be eligible for employment as a postdoctor a doctoral degree or a foreign degree deemed to be equivalent to a doctoral degree is required. This eligibility requirement must be fulfilled at the latest at the time of the employment decision. It is considered as an advantage if you have completed your doctoral degree within the last three years, if there are special reasons, your degree may have been completed earlier.

Applicants must have a PhD in neurology, or a related discipline. The successful applicant must have experience planning, collecting, and analysing data from MEG measurements, preferably with an Elekta/MEGIN TRIUX scanner. Further the candidate must have experience with patient recordings and neuropsychological assessments. A successful applicant should be experienced in MEG/EEG analysis using FieldTrip and/or MNE Python. Experience with eye tracking is beneficial.

Excellent English and Swedish skills are required. The work involves close collaboration with users and subjects and demands flexibility and good communication skills.

What do we offer?

A creative and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. At Karolinska Institutet, we conduct successful medical research and hold the largest range of medical education in Sweden. At KI, you get to meet researchers working with a wide range of specialisms and methods, giving you ample opportunity to exchange knowledge and experience with the various scientific fields within medicine and health. It is the crossover collaborations, which have pushed KI to where it is today, at the forefront of global research. Several of the people you meet in healthcare are educated at KI. A close relationship with the health care providers is important for creating groundbreaking top quality education and research. Karolinska Institutet is also a state university, which entitles you to several benefits through our collective agreement.

Location: Solna Campus

Application

An employment application must contain the following documents in English or Swedish:

A complete resumé, including date of the thesis defence, title of the thesis, previous academic positions, academic title, current position, academic distinctions, and committee work
A complete list of publications
A summary of current work (no more than one page)

Welcome to apply at the latest December 11th 2022.

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

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