Assistant Professor in neuroimaging and movement disorders

Do you want to contribute to improving human health? 

We are opening a position an Assistant Professor in Neuroimaging and Movement Disorders with focus on education and research. The candidate will help us further develop the collection, analysis and integration of advanced, multimodal brain imaging data created in the Lundqvist Multimodal Brain Imaging group.  

Your mission 

This Assistant Professor position offers a unique opportunity to build a strong academic profile, primarily through the development of your independence as a researcher while also gaining valuable pedagogical experience. As Assistant Professor in Daniel Lundqvist’s research group, you will be responsible for the group’s research activities concerning movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease with academic freedom and responsibility to develop your independent line of research.

Your work will investigate how Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative and movement disorders change neuronal activity and brain networks that impact motor and cognitive symptoms and their interactions. You will apply state-of-the-art multimodal neuroimaging approaches including next-generation magnetoencephalography, functional and structural MRI, and PET combined with clinical evaluations and advanced behavioral tracking using wearables to uncover relationships between behavior and brain function and their disruption by neurodegeneration.

Together with the research group leader you will recruit and supervise team members, including research staff and students, and are expected to contribute to departmental activities. There will be great opportunities to establish local, national and international collaborations to strengthen your research program.

You are expected to disseminate your findings through high-quality peer reviewed publications and international conference meetings and to actively pursue external research funding to further strengthen the development and long-term growth of your research group.

The employment as Assistant Professor is time limited for 6 years with the right to apply for promotion to Senior Lecturer. 

Eligibility requirements 

Those eligible for employment as an Assistant Professor are individuals who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence. Preference should be given to those who were awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence no more than seven years, normally, prior to the expiry of the application period for the position as assistant professor. Those who have been awarded a PhD or attained equivalent research competence earlier may however be considered if special grounds exist.  

Special grounds refer to: 

• parental leave, 
• positions of trust in trade union organizations 
• mandatory service in the total defense forces 
• long-term illness 

Ground, dates and extent must be clearly specified in the application and verified with relevant documentation. 

Appointment to the position of Assistant Professor requires good scientific skills and good pedagogical skills. (See the Instructions for the Appointment Procedure for teachers at Karolinska Institutet). 

Bases of assessment 

To be eligible, the candidate must have a doctoral degree in neuroscience, neurology or a closely related biomedical field and documented expertise and independence in the conceptualization, design, measurement and analysis of state-of-the-art magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiments in human participants. Experience in using next-generation sensors such as optically-pumped magnetometers (OPM) is meritorious. Experience in multimodal brain imaging, combining and coregistering MEG with other neuroimaging modalities such as EEG, MRI and PET, is meritorious.  

Strong academic credentials, including publications in high-quality international journals in the field of neuroscience in movement disorders, are a requirement. Experience in the clinical evaluation of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, including motor and neuropsychological assessments and their interpretation are highly advantageous. Fluency in English and Swedish (both written and spoken) as well as programming skills (e.g., Python, R, Matlab) and proficiency in statistics / data analysis are required. Demonstrated pedagogical skills in teaching in higher education at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels, including experience in supervising doctoral students, is meritorious.

Candidates will be evaluated based on both scientific and pedagogical qualifications, with greater emphasis placed on scientific excellence.

For employment as Assistant Professor at Karolinska Institutet, the eligibility requirements and assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure are applied in relation to established profile of employment. 

After an overall assessment of the expertise and merits of the applicants in relation to the subject area, Karolinska Institutet will determine which of them has the best potential to contribute to a positive development of the activities at KI. 

What do we offer? 

A creative, international and inspiring environment with wide-ranging expertise and interests. Karolinska Institutet is one of the world's leading medical universities. Here, 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 good benefits through our collective agreement.  

Location: Solna

Application

We prefer that Your application is written in English, but You can also apply in Swedish. An application must contain the following documents: Resumé, qualifications and description of planned research, presented in accordance with Karolinska Institutet’s qualifications portfolio.

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

Particular assessment for promotion to Senior Lecturer

An Assistant Professor employed in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 4 Section 12a shall be promoted to Senior Lecturer if he or she is eligible for an employment as Senior Lecturer in accordance with the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet and is assessed to be suitable for such employment in accordance with the assessment criteria that KI has decided should be applied when being promoted to Senior Lecturer. The assessment criteria stated in the Instructions regarding the Appointment Procedure for Teachers at Karolinska Institutet that was valid at the time of appointment as Assistant Professor will be applied when applying for promotion to Senior Lecturer.  Current assessment criteria is found here. Such promotion results in a permanent position as Senior Lecturer. 

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