Join us!
If you are interested in helping to understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying normal and pathological threat avoidance, and improving treatments for mental health problems, we would be excited to receive your application.
General
If you would like to join caian with your own funding, we would be excited to learn about your ideas and discuss the options. We can host PhD and post doc fellowships as well as research groups funded by Emmy-Noether, ERC, or similar. Please send your concrete ideas and a CV to d.bach@uni-bonn.de.
Job opportunities
If you are interested in a PhD or Post doc position in the critical intelligence lab, please send us your CV, a statement of interest, and links to any public code repositories that you might have created to d.bach@uni-bonn.de.
Junior research group leader position with tenure track (OPMEG methods)
We are currently preparing the recruitment of a senior post doc with background in MEG methods or sensor technology to lead a methodological research programme in our newly established OPMEG facility, starting in 2026. Please contact d.bach@uni-bonn.de for more details.
Master theses
We supervise theses in neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and life science informatics. Some topics are listed here.
If you are interested in these or any other topics, please send your CV, transcript of records, BSc certificate including course grades, and, if applicable, links to any public code repositories that you might have created to d.bach@uni-bonn.de.
Interships
We welcome local and international interns who stay with us for at least 8 weeks during their degree program. Internships take the form of lab rotations and are strictly unpaid. We offer internships in the area of
- data acquisition (VR experiments, movement data), and
- data science (psychophysiology, biophysical and computational modelling, kinematics analysis, CNN-based action segmentation).
For (a.) applicants are expected to have experience in human experimentation or be enrolled in a psychology degree or similar. Please state your level of prior experience when you contact us. For (b.), applicants are expected to be fluent in at least one programming language. Please send us code samples or links to any public code repositories that you might have created.
If you fulfill the essential requirements, please send a CV, proof of enrolment, transcript of records, and BSc certificate including course grades (if applicable) to d.bach@uni-bonn.de.
