Two short-term fellowships for master's degree holders and PhD candidates in 2025
Universität Oldenburg/SFB1372
The DFG-funded Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1372
“Magnetoreception and Navigation of Vertebrates” at the
University of Oldenburg offers
two short-term fellowships for master's degree holders
and PhD-candidates
to excellent researchers, who are interested in doing research
within one dedicated project of the CRC. Please see the available
projects here:
https://www.sfb1372.de/projects. These
visiting research fellowships are intended to foster external
collaboration and will allow external PhD students or students
holding a master’s degree to work within the CRC framework. The
fellowships are tax-exempt and will be granted ideally for 6 to
12 months, covering a basic amount of 1,365 EUR plus child
support if applicable.
CRC 1372 “Magnetoreception and navigation in vertebrates:
from biophysics to brain and behaviour”
The central aim of CRC 1372 is to achieve a comprehensive and
multidisciplinary understanding of magnetoreception and
vertebrate navigation all the way from the biophysical mechanisms
to the natural behaviour of navigating animals, covering every
step in between. To achieve this, we need to understand how
magnetic cues are sensed, how magnetic information reaches the
brain for processing, how multisensory navigation-relevant
information is integrated in the brain, whether neural correlates
of map and compass information exist beyond a lab environment of
a few square metres, what the genetic basis of migration is, and
how cue manipulations and different sensory strategies affect
navigation behaviours and global migration patterns.
The CRC is structured into three overlapping and interconnected
sections representing the three steps that the
navigation-relevant signals take within the animal: Signal
Detection (projects Sig01 to Sig06), Neural Processing (Neu01 to
Neu06) and Navigation Behaviour (Nav01to Nav07). Further
information on the CRC’s research and its projects can be found
at https://www.sfb1372.de/
The CRC hosts a state-of-the-art research infrastructure
including a large interdisciplinary network of researchers, its
own integrated research training group (IRTG), and funding
opportunities for conference visits, summer schools, hosting
international experts etc.
Your profile:
- Excellent master’s degree or equivalent, related to topics of the CRC, obtained outside of the future host institution
- Proficiency in English
- Convincing research idea within the subject area of the CRC (you can assign the project idea to one of the projects of the CRC)
- Motivation to participate in the workshops and seminars organized by the integrated research training group (IRTG)
Our expectations:
- Regular participation in workshops and seminars organized by the integrated research training group
- Participation in biannual CRC meetings
- Motivated work on individual research project and presentation of its results within the IRTG seminar series
Required documents for application:
- Statement of research interests and letter of motivation
- Curriculum vitae
- Certificate of master’s degree (or equivalent)
- Two references
- Desirable: project outline (with preferred time period). Applicants are advised to contact the CRC investigators with whom they would like to work and discuss the possibility of collaboration.
Starting date:
- Earliest: October 1, 2024
- Latest: June 1, 2025
The University of Oldenburg is committed to equality, diversity,
inclusion and the compatibility of family and career. It is a
signatory of the Diversity Charter and has been certified as a
family-friendly university since 2004. We welcome applications
from people of all nationalities, ethnic and social origins,
religions, gender identities, sexual orientations and ages.
Information about the University of Oldenburg can be found here
https://uol.de/en.
For further information contact Tabea Hildebrand (Tel.:
+49-441-798-3586, irtg_sfb1372[at]uol.de)
Please send your application documents in a single PDF
file by email to
irtg_sfb1372[at]uol.de. Application deadline:
June 15th 2024.
Please note that risks to confidentiality and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be ruled out when communicating by unencrypted e-mail.
- Bewerbungsschluss:
- 15.06.2024
- Einsatzort:
- 26129 Oldenburg
Deutschland
- Anbieter:
- Universität Oldenburg/SFB1372
Deutschland
- Ansprechpartner/in:
- Tabea Hildebrand
- Telefon:
- +49-441-798-3586
- E-Mail:
- irtg_sfb1372@uol.de
- (Ursprünglich) veröffentlicht am:
- 17.05.2024