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We seek a highly talented and motivated PhD candidate for an ERC-CoG-funded project entitled ‘Dare to Approach’. The overarching aim of the project is to develop a neurocognitive computational framework explaining how people make costly avoidance decisions under acute threat and how they are able to override strong avoidance tendencies to obtain a larger goal. We aim to improve current decision models by taking into account the psychophysiological state of the decision maker. The project at large consists of task development, computational modelling, testing the models in healthy and highly anxious individuals, and ultimately developing neuro-cognitive interventions to help alleviate persistent avoidance in anxiety disorders. You will have access to various neuroimaging (including fMRI and MEG) and brain stimulation techniques (TMS, tACS) available at the Donders Institute to test the neural basis of approach-avoidance decisions in healthy participants and patients with anxiety disorders. You will be joining the Affective Neuroscience PI group led by Prof. Karin Roelofs at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University (Nijmegen, Netherlands). Our group is investigating brain systems that support the cognitive control of emotions and emotional actions. In addition, we seek to understand how these networks interact with hormonal and major neurotransmitter systems in healthy subjects and patients with anxiety and aggression related disorders. You will be given the opportunity to regularly present your work at international conferences and meetings. Also, in order to develop your own research agenda, we will encourage and support you in applying for competitive career development fellowships towards the end of the project. See the following website for further information: EPAN-lab: Experimental Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience.
You should be able to work in an interdisciplinary environment, sharing technical know-how and ideas.
Fixed-term contract: You will be appointed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2.5 years.
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