Location: Esplugues de Llobregat (Spain)
Working day: Full time
Sector: Healthcare
Vacancies: 1
Discipline: R&D
Work modality: On siteThe Fundació Privada per a la Recerca Sant Joan de Déu is an entity created in 2002 to cover the research activity that is carried out, both in the biomedical and social sphere, at the Maternal and Infantile Hospital of Esplugues, in the Parc Sanitari de Sant Boi de Llobregat and in other centers of the Hospital Order San Juan de Dios - Province of Aragon San Rafael.
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The ideal candidate will be a PhD student with prior experience in conducting research with infants, using experimental techniques such as eye-tracker, Head-Turn Preference Procedure, EEG. The candidate will have statistical skills (e.g., ttests, ANOVA, regression) and basic knowledge of R and MATLAB. The successful candidate will have theoretical knowledge of cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, with a focus on developmental neuroscience, acquired during the master degree.
The student will work along with the PI and the team, thus organizational and communication skills will be key. Part of the studies will be conducted at Sant Joan de Deu Hospital, and part of the studies at the Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC) of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Both centers are located in Barcelona
Functions:
During the course of the PhD program, the student is expected to learn to design experiments with newborns and infants using spectroscopy (e.g., fNIRS) as well as behavioral paradigms (e.g., eye-tracker), including the preparation of materials for the experiments (e.g., stimuli), under the PI’s supervision. The student is expected to collect data, thus knowledge of Spanish (or willingness to learn) will be necessary to communicate with infants’ families. The student is expected to
analyze data, interpret results, write scientific articles and present conference proceedings, under the PI’s supervision. Good English skills (written and spoken) will be necessary.
We offer:
Annual gross salary will be 22.500€ per year.
Annual training plan
“This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC-Starting Grant) under the European Union’s Horizon 2024 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 101115991 )” "Gates to Language" GALA
Interested candidates should include:
