We are excited to announce an opportunity for a PhD or Postdoctoral  
researcher to join our lab at the University of Marburg, starting as  
soon as possible. This position is funded by the prestigious DFG  
CRC/TRR 393 consortium, a long-term, multicenter project dedicated to  
understanding the trajectories of affective disorders. The position is  
initially for two years, with the possibility of extension up to an  
additional three years (maximum of five years).

How to Determine if You Are a Good Fit:

- Familiarize yourself with our work: Review the research papers  
listed below, visit our lab’s website  
(https://www.psycontrol-lab.de/), and explore the Physics of Cognition  
workshop we recently organized  
(https://bernstein-network.de/bernstein-conference/program/satellite-workshops/physics/). Ask yourself if these topics align with your research experience or excite your intellectual curiosity-  
.
- Conference Engagement: Do you regularly attend, or aspire to attend,  
conferences such as CCN, NeurIPS, ICLR, COSYNE, BCCN, BrainModes,  
OHBM, SfN, ECNP, or Computational Psychiatry? If these events resonate  
with you, you may find our environment a great fit.


What You Will Bring:
- A strong motivation to advance the understanding of mental health disorders.
- A solid background in Dynamical Systems Theory, Machine Learning,  
Generative Visual AI, and Neuroimaging.
- Proficiency in coding
- Excellent command of the English language in writing and speaking.

What You Can Expect From Us:
- Access to one of the most unique infrastructures in this field  
including full access to multiple multimodal unique large datasets (N  
 > 3000) in the field, including fMRI, DTI, EEG, and EMA.
- Ample computational resources (dedicated CPU, GPU, and RAM) tailored  
to your needs. -
- Collaboration with a highly motivated interdisciplinary team with  
backgrounds in Engineering, Physics, Psychology, and Medicine.
- Strong national and international collaborations through projects  
like The Adaptive Mind (TAM, https://www.theadaptivemind.de/) and the  
Center for Mind, Brain, and Behavior (CMBB,  
https://www.cmbb-fcmh.de/de), and partnerships with labs in the UK,  
Netherlands, Germany, and the USA.
- Dedicated travel funding and the ability to run your own studies.  
For postdoctoral candidates, there is potential to establish your own  
research group.

  If you resonate with our research and approach, please send your CV  
and a brief statement explaining why you are a good fit and why this  
opportunity excites you to hamidreza.jamalabadi@uni-marburg.de.

There is no formal deadline for applications—reviews will begin  
immediately and continue until the position is filled.

Key Publications
Gaziv, G., Lee, M., & DiCarlo, J. J. (2024). Strong and precise  
modulation of human percepts via robustified ANNs. Advances in Neural  
Information Processing Systems, 36.
Durstewitz, D., Koppe, G., & Thurm, M. I. (2023). Reconstructing  
computational system dynamics from neural data with recurrent neural  
networks. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 24(11), 693-710.
Jamalabadi, H., Koppe, G., Nozari, E., & Hahn, T. (2023). Engineering  
the Mind: Actionable Technical Requirements for Innovation in Clinical  
Neuroscience.
Stocker, J. E., Koppe, G., Reich, H., Heshmati, S., Kittel-Schneider,  
S., Hofmann, S. G., ... & Jamalabadi, H. (2023). Formalizing  
psychological interventions through network control theory. Scientific  
Reports, 13(1), 13830.
Winter, N. R., Blanke, J., Leenings, R., Ernsting, J., Fisch, L.,  
Sarink, K., ... & Hahn, T. (2024). A Systematic Evaluation of Machine  
Learning–Based Biomarkers for Major Depressive Disorder. JAMA  
Psychiatry, 81(4), 386-395.
Goetschalckx, L., Andonian, A., Oliva, A., & Isola, P. (2019).  
Ganalyze: Toward visual definitions of cognitive image properties.  
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer  
Vision, 5744-5753.


Hope to hear from you soon!

Best regards,
Hamidreza Jamalabadi


-- 
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hamidreza Jamalabadi
Professor for Computational Psychiatry
Psychiatric Control Systems Lab
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Rudolf-Bultmann-Straße 8
35039 Marburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 6421 5863827
Email: hamidreza.jamalabadi@uni-marburg.de
           hamidreza.jamalabadi@psycontrol-lab.de
Web:   https://www.psycontrol-lab.de/