POSTDOC (3 years, full time, no teaching)
Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg, Germany
The group of Moritz Köster at the Institute of Psychology studies the
neurocognitive foundations of early brain development. Within a project
funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), we are looking for a
postdoctoral researcher to join our group.
The
project investigates the functional role of rhythmic brain activity
in early development, following the trajectory from integrating novel
information and building visual object representations in infancy
towards efficient processing in mature cortical networks. We address
this across age groups, using newly developed learning paradigms and by
relating EEG to fMRI data through representational similarity analyses.
Within the project we
collaborate with Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Dublin, infant awake
fMRI) and Radoslaw M. Cichy (Freie Universitaet Berlin, EEG/fMRI
fusion). Work on the analyses can start immediately on the basis of
first datasets, and there is ample room to bring in your own ideas and
research questions.
Your role:
- Analysis of EEG and fMRI datasets on the development of visual
representations
computational neuroscience,
in
infants, children and adults
- Supervision of data assessments
- Publishing in international peer-reviewed journals and presenting at
conferences
- Opportunity to co-supervise PhD students and to contribute to grant
proposals
Requirements:
- Excellent PhD in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, computational neuroscience, biology
or a related discipline (completed or submitted)
- Very good analytic and programming skills (MATLAB, Python)
- Experience with M/EEG and/or fMRI analysis, ideally including
time-frequency analyses, multivariate methods and computational
modelling
- Publications in (developmental) cognitive neuroscience
- Excellent command of written and spoken English; German is welcome
but not required
We offer a three-year full-time position with no teaching load, paid
according to the German public sector scale TV-L E 13, considerable
freedom to pursue your own questions, an international and collaborative
environment, and collaborations on state-of-the-art assessment methods
in infancy research - high-density EEG, fMRI, OPM-MEG and VR.
Regensburg
is a UNESCO World Heritage city in Bavaria with a compact campus
university and a high quality of living.
For further information and informal inquiries, please contact
moritz.koester@ur.de. To apply, please send a single PDF (CV including
publication
list, a brief motivation letter, certificates, and the names
and contact details of three academic referees) to
sekretariat.koester@ur.de by September 15, 2026.
The University of Regensburg explicitly encourages applications from
qualified women. In case of essentially similar suitability, applicants
with severe disabilities will be preferentially selected.
Here is a link to the original job advert
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Prof. Dr. Dr. Moritz Koester
Institute of Psychology, University of Regensburg