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The Department of Psychiatry of the VU University Medical Center (VUmc) and GGZ inGeest collaboratively conduct research, education and academic patient care. The main focus is on depression and anxiety disorders, two common psychiatric disorders with high public health impact. Psychiatric research is embedded in two research institutes: Amsterdam Public Health and Amsterdam Neuroscience. In this research area more than 150 persons from different disciplines (e.g. psychiatry, psychology and health science) collaborate.
The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA; see www.nesda.nl) is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study into the risk factors and long-term course and consequences of depressive and anxiety disorders. The Department of Psychiatry has 2 PhD positions available based on the NESDA study. The first project aims at better understanding risk and resilience factors in the familial transmission of mood and anxiety disorders (Project 1). The second project aims at identifying the effects of anxiety and depression on healthy brain ageing and the identification of biopsychosocial risk and protective factors of depression and anxiety onon healthy brain ageing (Project 2). For more information about the project you can go to https://www.vumc.com/branch/Psychiatry/news/phdposition-psychiatry/ (Project 1) or https://www.vumc.com/branch/Psychiatry/news/phdposition-psychiatry2/ (Project 2)
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As a PhD student your main tasks will be:
The end product for each PhD student is a PhD thesis based on high-quality internationally peer reviewed publications. Training in essential research skills is part of the appointment as a PhD student.
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Salary Scale OIO: 2279 tot 2919 euro gross when employed full-time (depending on qualifications and experience).
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