PhD/Postdoctoral Position at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany

The Department of High-field Magnetic Resonance at the Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen is offering one PhD position and one postdoctoral fellow position under the supervision of Dr. Xin Yu (Group Leader at MPI for Biological Cybernetics). This position is open until filled.

Research Description: Understand and learn to control the brain circuits underlying critical brain states, such as coma or arousal.  Potential assignments: a. build up the multi-modal platform to monitor the brain states of rat coma models, e.g. implementing the MRI/EEG/calcium recording methods for global brain state verification. b. target specific nuclei with deep brain optogenetic stimulation methods, potentially involved in developing real-time biofeedback controlling schemes.

Experience with signal processing and programming is highly desired. The candidates should bear a certain experience or strong interest on brain functional imaging, e.g. task-based BOLD fMRI.

The Max Plank Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in Tübingen, Germany. The High-field Magnetic Resonance Department is equipped with the 3T, 9.4T human MR scanner and 14.1T animal Bruker MR Scanner.  The Max Planck Society is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and encourages applications from qualified women and minority candidates.

Please send your CV (in English) to Dr. Yu if interested.

Contact info:

Dr. Xin Yu

Research Group leader

Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics

Spemannstrasse 41

72076 Tübingen

Germany

E-mail: xin.yu@tuebingen.mpg.de; phone: 49 7071 601-740

Dr. Yu has published seminal papers on small animal high field MRI in Nature Neuroscience, Nature Methods, Neuron, PNAS, NeuroImage etc.