Assistant Professor in Non-invasive Brain Stimulation in Cognition

**Welcome to the Brain Stimulation and Cognition lab at Maastricht University**

**What you do**

We expect that you are passionate about research and enjoy collaborating with staff within and beyond the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience. Ideally, you have already shown that you are able to gain research funding on individual or collaborative grants.

We also hope you are an enthusiastic teacher, as the time commitment on the advertised positions entails 50/50 teaching and research. As much as possible, your teaching will be organized so it fits your research interests. You can teach in the Bachelor in Brain Science, the Bachelor in Psychology as well as related Master programmes, including supervision of Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology Master students.

You are also expected to be a team player with an open, effective management and communication style.

**Are you ready to set the course for the years ahead? Then we’d love to meet you.**

**What you bring**
- You have a PhD in (Cognitive) Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, Biomedical Sciences, Bioengineering, Medicine, or a related field;
- You are collegial and enjoy (interdisciplinary) team science. Excellent English communication skills are essential. Knowledge of Dutch is not required, but you should be willing to learn Dutch once you arrive;
- You should have several years of experience as a Postdoc, during which you should have demonstrated outstanding quality in research and compiled a competitive publication record;
- You have expertise in cognitive neuroscience methods; you especially have experience with designing and executing advanced NIBS experiments, and with conducting advanced analyses of functional brain data (EEG, fMRI); experience with modelling is a plus;
- Your methods expertise shows a strong track record in non-invasive brain stimulation technologies such as TMS and/or TES and/or TUS and/or TI;
- Your skill set includes programming, statistics, excellent scientific writing and communication;
- You are an experienced and enthusiastic teacher and have demonstrated ability in thesis supervision;
- You are interested in human cognition (memory, attention, cognitive control) and/or have a clinical NIBS interest.

**What we offer**
**As An Assistant Professor** **at**Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience**, you will be employed by the most international university in the Netherlands, located in the beautiful city of Maastricht. In addition, we offer you**:

- Good employment conditions. The position is graded in scale 11-12 according to the UFO profile Assistant Professor, with corresponding salary based on experience ranging from €4.728 and €7.297 gross per month (based on a full-time employment of 38 hours per week). In addition to the monthly salary, an 8.0% holiday allowance and an 8.3% year-end bonus apply.
- An employment contract for a period of 12 months with a scope of 1.0 FTE. Upon proven suitability, the employment contract will be converted to an indefinite contract.
- At Maastricht University, the well-being of our employees is of utmost importance, we offer flexible working hours and the possibility to work partly from home if the nature of your position allows it. You will receive a monthly commuting and internet allowance for this. If you work full-time, you will be entitled to 29 vacation days and 4 additional public holidays per year, namely carnival Monday, carnival Tuesday, Good Friday, and Liberation Day. If you choose to accumulate compensation hours, an additional 12 days will be added. Furthermore, you can personalize your employment conditions through a collective labor agreement (CAO) choice model.
- As Maastricht University, we offer various other excellent secondary employment conditions. These include a good pension scheme with the ABP and the opportunity for UM employees to participate in company fitness and make use of the extensive sports facilities that we also offer to our students.
- Last but certainly not least, we provide the space and facilities for your personal and professional development. We facilitate this by offering a wide range of training programs and supporting various well-established initiatives such as 'Recogniton and Reward'.

The terms of employment at Maastricht University are largely set out in the collective labor agreement of Dutch Universities. In addition, local provisions specific to UM apply. For more information, click here.

**Maastricht University**
Why work at Maastricht University?
At Maastricht University (UM), everything revolves around the future. The future of our students, as we work to equip them with a solid, broad-based foundation for the rest of their lives. And the future of society, as we seek solutions through our research to issues from all around the world. Our six faculties combined provide a comprehensive package of study programmes and research.

In our teaching, we use the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method. Students work