MSCA-PF in Cognitive Neuroscience with Dr Dennis Hernaus

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MSCA-PF in Cognitive Neuroscience with Dr Dennis Hernaus

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Cognitive Neuroscience; goal-directed behaviour; computational models of learning and decision-making; functional magnetic resonance imagingGrabbing a coffee, taking out the trash, or working towards a promotion. Achieving a goal, no matter how big or small, requires motivation. Motivation therefore plays an essential role in shaping everyday behaviour, which is also evident from the observation that disturbances in motivation – which are common across the psychopathology spectrum – result in profound and debilitating behavioural changes. Dr. Hernaus’ group is interested in the cognitive and neural mechanisms that support motivation (e.g., reinforcement learning, value-based decision-making, reward system function), and how these mechanisms are altered in people that suffer from mental illness, depression and schizophrenia in particular. This fellowship would offer an opportunity to develop a competitive proposal that will use state-of-the-art techniques (e.g., high-field neuroimaging, computational models of motivation, psychophysiology, psychopharmacology) to advance our knowledge of (ab)normal motivation. Applicants that have experience with human subjects research involving one or more of the above methods, as well as excellent programming and statistical skills, are encouraged to apply.MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships:
MSCA Postdoctoral fellowship provide a unique opportunity to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD (i.e. having completed their PhD at the call deadline of September 10th 2025) and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.
Candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the Netherlands for more than 12 months in the 36 months prior to the EU call deadline. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Maastricht, the Netherlands.MHeNs, Mental Health and Neuroscience Research Institute strives to advance our understanding of brain-behaviour relationships by using an approach integrating various disciplines in neuro- and behavioural science, medicine, and the life sciences. MHeNs performs high-impact neuroscience research and educates master’s students and PhD researchers. MHeNs performs translational research, meaning practical collaboration between researchers in the lab and in the hospital and in close collaboration with the Faculty for Psychology and Neuroscience and School of Business and Economics (Centre for Integrative Neuroscience). Find more info here.Are you the Postdoctoral Fellow we are looking for? Are you interested in working on your own research project in one of the subject areas here above? And do you meet the MSCA eligibility criteria? We would like to hear from you!!
Please send your Expression of Interest before June 15th, indicating the subject area:
1. Short project proposal (max 2 pages, font size 11)
2. Motivation for supervisor, MHeNs and Maastricht University
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Maastricht, Limburg

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Sat, 17 May 2025 05:19:51 GMT

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