Dear All, 

I am pleased to announce that my research group at the Hertie Institute for AI in Brain Health (Hertie AI, https://hertie.ai/), within the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, invites applications for two PhD students or postdoctoral researchers (f/m/d). My group will investigate the neural mechanisms of altered brain dynamics and function in neuropsychiatric disorders, leveraging biophysical whole-brain models personalized to each patient using AI and model inference methods. Research questions for PhD/postdoctoral projects will be chosen from a range of topics in computational neuroscience / neuro-AI / precision psychiatry / cognitive neuroscience including:

• Whole-brain biophysical modeling of resting-state brain dynamics in neuropsychiatric disorders, personalized to each patient using evolutionary algorithms and simulation-based inference approaches, and
• Whole-brain biophysical modeling of brain function and dysfunction in tasks tied to core symptoms of disorders, including sensory salience paradigms

Required qualifications: MSc in neuroscience, physics, data science, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics or similar.

Preferred qualifications: experience with whole-brain or neural network modeling, with neuroimaging data analysis, and/or with model inference.

Recruited researchers will be expected to start in Sept 2025 for a duration of 3 years with the possibility of extension. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

If interested, please get in touch and send me your CV and statement of research interests (limited to 2 pages).

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Best, 

Trang-Anh Nghiem

https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=2PlcVlIAAAAJ&hl=en