PhD position at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona funded by the TOUCH COFUND project

14 Mar 2024
Job Information

Organisation/Company

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Research Field

Medical sciences

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

Spain

Application Deadline

30 Jun 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND

Marie Curie Grant Agreement Number

101126533

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

Topic: Neuroimaging and personality in Clinical and Health Psychology

A PhD position is available at the Research Group of Neuroimaging, Personality, Prevention and Treatment in Clinical and Health Psychology - Clinical and Health Psychology Department from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona under the supervision of Joan Deus Yela (Psychology, Neuroimaging) and Laura Blanco-Hinojo (Neuroscience). We are looking for a highly motivated candidate that will investigate how can be used the neuroimaging and personality traits in the study of pathology with chronic pain, resistant to conventional treatments, or in drug-resistant depression.

Neuroimaging, in recent years, has provided relevant information about the neurobiology of different mental health disorders or problems. These data have been related to personality traits, either as potential predictor variables of the clinical course, or as comorbid traits to the primary mental health problem. In fact, both neuroimaging and personality have been a growing target of interest in recent decades, in the study of pathology with chronic or persistent pain, resistant to conventional treatments and with the perspective of new therapeutic lines, or in drug-resistant major depression. Both lines of research allow us to address new neuroanatomical and personality variables to improve the understanding of their neurobiological bases and the establishment of predictor variables of their evolutionary course and therapeutic response.

The successful candidate will be enrolled in the Clinical and Health Psychology doctoral program at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in the framework of the TOUCH project. TOUCH (“Towards the next generatiOn of excellent yoUng doctoral researchers on mental health by developing an intersectoral & transdisciplinary approaCH”) is a new excellent doctoral programme co-funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Actions of the European Commission and led by the UAB for the recruitment and training of 24 doctoral candidates in the field of mental health and wellbeing.

The research team has supervised a total of 18 doctoral theses. They teach in 5 Official Masters. The applicant research team has extensive experience, recognized nationally and internationally, in the field of neuroimaging and neuroscience in mental health problems and international projection based on the number of scientific publications. He has a total of 176 publications, 24 book chapters and 4 books in his field of knowledge. In addition, the team has a sufficient number of senior researchers with extensive experience in various research projects or clinical trials that allows them to direct and offer their knowledge in the training of new researchers. Some of the members of the work team are part of a consolidated research group of the spanish national network in the field of psychiatry CIBERSAM. Thesis Supervisor website . Research Group website .

We are looking for candidates with an excellent CV, ahigh degree of ambition and motivation, and with good personal qualities to work in our Team. We offer a 3-year full-time contract (37,5 hours/week) and a gross salary of 2.375 €/month (the salary will be the same for the 3 years).

The candidates must fulfil the following eligibility criteria from the EC: Mobility rule: candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately preceding the deadline for the programme call. Experience rule: researchers must be doctoral candidates at the date of recruitment, i.e. not already in possession of a doctoral degree at the deadline of the open calls. Researchers who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but have not yet formally awarded the doctoral degree will not be considered eligible. Candidates must hold a degree that allows admission to the official doctoral programme at UAB.

Additional requirements for a stronger application are:

• The student should have a degree (bachelor or similar) in clinical psychology, mental health, medicine or biomedicine.
• Postgraduate, specialization or master in neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry or neurology.
• knowledge of neuroimaging and neuroimage analysis (Matlab/SPM).
• Have linguistic skills in English (reading and writing) and, if possible, in Spanish.
• The student's interest must focus on knowledge of the human brain, and with clinical application, through neuroimaging and psychopathology, as well as in the techniques that allow their disorders to be objectified.
• Their desired skills and competencies are proactivity, knowing how to work as a team, empathy and a great predisposition to work.

Interested applicants should apply through the TOUCH online platform by submitting a full CV, a motivation letter, two letters of recommendation and academic and English level certificates. The call will be open from the 1st of April to the 30th of June 2024. More information about the TOUCH project, the recruitment process, and the application platform are available on the TOUCH website .

 

Requirements

Research Field

Medical sciences

Education Level

Master Degree or equivalent

Languages

ENGLISH

Level

Excellent

Additional Information
Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)

Country

Spain

City

Bellaterra (Barcelona)

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://webs.uab.cat/touch/

Contact

State/Province

Barcelona

City

Cerdanyola del Vallés

Website

http://www.uab.cat

Street

Campus UAB

Postal Code

08193

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED