Research associate with opportunity for a PhD-project in Psychology 2011-2013
Differential and Personality Psychology in Primates, Freie Universitt Berlin, Department of Psychology, Germany
Position: Research associate. Yearly salary is approx. 18.000-24.000 Euro.
Start: preferably February/ March 2011
Job description
You will be based at Freie Universitt Berlin, an internationally renowned network university, where you will have the opportunity to learn highly developed methodological approaches, statistics, techniques for recording and coding behaviour, and to write a PhD thesis. Work will include active engagement in an international and multidisciplinary research team including Dr. Jana Uher, Freie Universitt Berlin and Dr. Elisabetta Visalberghi, CNR laboratory in Rome, Italy. Your tasks will be to develop non-invasive behavioural tests and observation schemes, to use them to collect behavioural data in captive Capuchin monkeys from collaborating research institutions in Europe, to apply psychometric statistic analyses, prepare scientific publications, and help building up an international and interdisciplinary research network.
