Assistant/Associate professor
Cognitive ageing/Psychogerontology
The School of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence and the Nijmegen Insitute for Cognition and Information (NICI), part of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Radboud University Nijmegen, are looking for an assistant or associate professor of cognitive ageing and psychogerontology.
At our university, cognitive neuroscience is one of the main topics, with strong collaborating groups at the NICI, the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Maartenskliniek rehabilitation centre. You will have access to the infrastructure of these institutes. The NICI offers excellent research facilities, such as advanced EEG and eye movement registration, excellent access to fMRI facilities, an internal workshop and an animal laboratory. Base-funded PhD students are awarded each year in a competitive internal grant round.
The successful candidate's research is part of the newly formed chair in neuropsychology.
The research topics of this new chair focus on learning, memory and executive control in people with brain injury or disease, as well as nonpathological ageing.
The research is
aimed at cognitive ageing and can be linked to clinical and neuropsychological aspects of psychogerontology. He/she is expected to actively obtain grant-based and contract funding.
The successful candidate should be an excellent teacher. He/she is involved in bachelor and master courses on psychogerontology as part of the School of Psychology and Arti. cial Intelligence. He/she will be teaching about normal age-related cognitive development and cognitive impairments in later life and supervise students on papers and master theses.
Teaching is embedded within the psychogerontology track of our psychology bachelor and master programme.
The position offers excellent possibilities for career development, in which past and present performance are directive for your future career. Maximum salary is
€5798
gross/month. Closing date is May 31, 2008 More information For more information on the vacancy, the NICI and the application procedure, see
www.ru.nl/staff/working_at_the/job_opportunities.
You can also contact Roy Kessels, PhD for more information:
+31 24-3612541 / +31 24-3666196
r.kessels@nici.ru.nl
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