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RWTH Aachen University is one of Europe's leading educational and research institutions, with core competencies in the natural and engineering sciences.
HumTec is an interdisciplinary "project house" at RWTH Aachen University funded as part of the excellence initiative by the federal government and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia. HumTec aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences.
The HumTec program “Brain, Concept, Writing” investigates the genesis of complex literary concepts in an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of literature, neuroscience and computer science.
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Candidates for this position should hold a degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine or closely related disciplines. Experience in the realm of cognitive neuroscience, functional imaging methods and statistics would be of advantage. German language skills are required.
Your duties
The candidate will examine the neurofunctional production and comprehension processes of literary texts in the human brain, in close cooperation with researchers of the Central Service Facility “Functional Imaging” at the University Hospital Aachen (www.izkf.rwth-aachen.de).
Salary will be TVL-13 (100%) till 31.12.2010, and TVL-13 (50%) for the remaining time.
The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is limited to a period of 2 years with the option of elongation.
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The candidate will be employed as a regular employee. The candidate must meet required personal qualifications.
The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is for a fixed term (2 years). This is a part-time vacancy (50 %of the standard weekly hours for full time employees). Salary will be TVL-13 (100%) till 31.12.2010, and TVL-13 (50%) for the remaining time. The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is limited to a period of 2 years with the option of elongation.
The option of undertaking a PhD is provided.
The pay scale classification complies with the labour agreement TV-L.
RWTH Aachen University has been rewarded with the “Total-E-Quality-Award” for its efforts with respect to gender equality. Applications from female candidates are explicitly welcome. In cases of equal qualification, aptitude and expertise of the applicants, female applicants will be given preferential treatment for those salary groups and careers in which females are underrepresented, unless there are preponderant reasons to give preference to another applicant.
Please refer to § 8 Article 6 of the North Rhine-Westphalian Equal Opportunities Act (Landesgleichstellungsgesetz NW).
RWTH Aachen University has been rewarded with the title “disability-friendly” (“Prädikat behindertenfreundlich” ) for its efforts with respect to training and employment of severely disabled people. Applications from severely disabled people with appropriate suitability are explicitly welcome. This also applies to people with equal opportunities in accordance with § 2 SGB IX (Social Code).
Your contact person:
For further information, please contact
Dr. Ralph Schnitker
Tel.: +49 (0) 241 80 88890
Email: rschnitker@izkf.rwth-aachen.de
You can also obtain further information from our websites:
http://www.humtec.rwth-aachen.de
Please send your application by 1 October 2009 to
Dr. Ralph Schnitker
Universitätsklinikum Aachen Neuroradiologie
Pauwelstrasse 30
D-52074 Aachen
or submitted via mail to
Dr. Ralph Schnitker
Email: rschnitker@izkf.rwth-aachen.de
Applications by e-mail are questionable from a data protection point of view. The applicant is fully responsible for submitting an application by e-mail. It is recommended that applicants submit written applications by post.
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