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We seek a motivated postdoctoral researcher with expertise in neurocomputational models of adaptive learning. You will be funded by an ERC Advanced Grant entitled ’HEART2ADAPT: Autonomic balance for adaptive decision making’. Together with a team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD candidates we will investigate how people make approach-avoidance decisions under states of threat.
Why do some people stay calm and make flexible decisions under pressure, while others freeze or flee? 'HEART2ADAPT' is on a mission to find out. We are building a new model to understand how the body’s autonomic stress state shapes the way we respond to danger – and how this balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic activity guides adaptation in ever-changing environments.
Using cutting-edge tools to track brain and body activity in real time – think heart rate, posture and advanced neuroimaging – we will explore how stress affects decision-making. We will also test causal mechanisms through pharmacological interventions and transcranial ultrasound stimulation.
Funded by a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, HEART2ADAPT offers the appointed candidate opportunities to contribute to task development and modelling of behavioural and neural data. Subsequent phases will investigate alterations in anxiety patients and apply interventions to probe underlying mechanisms.
You will collaborate closely with colleagues at the Donders Institute and the Behavioural Science Institute as well as international partners. Responsibilities may also include management, mentoring (PhD, MSc, and BSc students), and teaching-related tasks.
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