PostDoc / Research Scientist (m/f/d)

PostDoc / Research Scientist (m/f/d) Professorship of Developmental Psychology

We Offer

• Exciting research in developmental cognitive neuroscience, a highly dynamic, multidisciplinary and rapidly developing field
• A three-year full-time position without teaching obligations and with considerable freedom to pursue your own questions
• Collaborations on state-of-the-art assessment methods in infancy research – high-density EEG, fMRI, OPM-MEG and VR
• Integration within an international and collaborative working environment, and support in building your own network
• The opportunity for further academic qualification and for collaborating on grant proposals

The group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Moritz Köster at the Institute of Psychology studies the neurocognitive foundations of early brain development. Within a project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the group investigates the functional role of rhythmic brain activity in early development, following the trajectory from integrating novel information and building visual object representations in infancy towards efficient processing in mature cortical networks. We address this across age groups and by relating EEG to fMRI data, among others through representational similarity analyses. Within the project we collaborate with Prof. Dr. Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College Dublin, infant awake fMRI) and Prof. Dr. Radoslaw M. Cichy (Freie Universität Berlin, EEG/fMRI fusion). Work on the analyses can start immediately on the basis of first datasets, and there is ample room to bring in your own ideas and research questions. The position carries no teaching load.

Your Tasks

• Analysis of EEG and fMRI datasets on the development of visual representations and the rhythmic processes underlying them, in infants, children and adults
• Supervision of data assessments
• Publishing articles in international peer-reviewed journals and presenting at conferences
• Opportunity to co-supervise PhD students
• Opportunity to contribute to grant proposals and to develop your own research questions

Your Profile

• Excellent PhD in psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, biology or a related discipline (completed or submitted)
• Very good analytic and programming skills (MATLAB, Python)
• Experience with M/EEG and/or fMRI analysis, ideally including time-frequency analyses, multivariate methods and computational modelling
• Publications in (developmental) cognitive neuroscience
• Theoretical interest in cognitive neuroscience and/or developmental psychology
• Excellent command of written and spoken English; German is welcome but not required
• High capacity to work independently and responsibly

We support women and strongly encourage them to apply. As a certified family-friendly university, we support our employees in balancing family and career.

Applicants with a disability as described in SGB IX (

• 2 Abs. 2, 3) will be preferred in case of equal qualifications.