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Lab-Manager Stelle Tübingen

Wir suchen eine*n Lab-Manager*in zur Stärkung unseres Teams in Tübingen. Die Aufgaben sind sowohl die Unterstützung der Forschung als auch die Beihilfe bei administrativen Tätigkeiten. Bei Fragen gerne direkt an Tobias wenden – Ausschreibung hier: https://jobs.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/Job/3489/Medizinisch-Technische-Assistenz-in-der-Forschung

New positions in Tuebingen

We have several new positions available for lab manager and student research assistants. If you are interested in working on computational psychiatry and neuroimaging, please visit all the details here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/

OCD Action national Conference

Our lab will be joining OCD Action’s National Conference on 07/10/2023 in London. Tobias will be speaking on “(How) does brain research matter for understanding OCD?” at 11:45am and our group will have a stall talking about some exciting research projects and new creations about OCD and the brain. Looking forward to seeing you there!

PostDoc position at UCL

Join an exciting fMRI project at UCL and be part of the vibrant MPC and FIL research community! If you have a background in fMRI and/or decision making, please consider applying for this position. All details can be found here: https://t.co/PFJ1i1QdWJ If you are interested, please feel free to reach out to Tobias. Deadline: 17/07/23

FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize

Tobias Hauser has won the 2024 FENS EJN Young Investigator Prize, together with Sara Bizzotto. He will present receive the Prize and present his work at the 2024 FENS Forum in Vienna. Hoping to see you all there! More info on the prize: https://www.fens.org/news-activities/news/meet-the-laureates-of-the-2024-fens-ejn-awards

Postdoctoral Openings

We have several postdoctoral openings in Tubingen for neuroimaging as well as for clinical studies. If you are interested in these opportunities, please reach out to Tobias directly. These positions provide the unique chance to help form the research direction of the Tubingen site. All information about the positions can be found here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/

Brain Stories Podcast

Tobias appeared on the Brain Stories Podcast and talked to Steve Fleming and Caswell Barry about common misconceptions around OCD, what the “computational” means in computational psychiatry, and the reasons why teenagers might hold the key to understanding the origins of mental health problems. Listen here: SoundCloud | Transistor (Apple, Spotify, Google etc.) Brain Stories is a podcast from the UCL Neuroscience Domain, highlighting the wide range of cutting-edge research going on within the Neuroscience Domain as well as bringing you the people behind the research to share their journey of how they ended up here.

Professorship in Tübingen

I am thrilled to announce that I am joining the University of Tübingen to take up a full professorship in Computational Psychiatry! I am taking up a position at the Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and will be associated with the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. I am looking forward to collaborating with my fantastic new colleagues across psychiatry, neuroimaging, development, and artificial intelligence. Importantly, I have several great positions to fill here in Tübingen – from student research assistants to postdoctoral fellows (computational modelling, clinical, neuroimaging). Please find more information and the job adverts here: https://devcompsy.org/join-the-lab/. If you are interested in working with me in Tübingen, please reach out! For now, I will keep my group at UCL and continue my projects there. This means I don’t have to say goodbye to the great UCL – just yet.

In the News

Our study, led by Johanna Habicht on optimism bias in childhood has been covered in the widely read German science magazine Bild der Wissenschaft. You can read the article here: https://www.wissenschaft.de/gesellschaft-psychologie/kleine-optimisten/