Research opportunities: Toward an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity

TESIS —Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity (http://tesis-itn.eu/) is a new Marie Curie Initial Training Network offering research opportunities on the foundations of human sociality. It brings together the complementary expertise of 13 European research institutes, clinical centres and private sector partners that span the biomedical sciences and the humanities. 

It will advance our understanding of human intersubjectivity based on the following research and training objectives:

1. To investigate the neural underpinnings of affective exchange with others, of shared action spaces and joint object relations, endorsing a novel interactive embodied neuroscience;
2. To investigate the development of social skills in infants in the context of the awareness of others during interaction, yielding an interactive concept of embodied social cognition;
3. To investigate the inter-subjective factors affecting psychopathologies, especially schizophrenia, autism and somatoform disorders and to draw implications for treatment;
4. To investigate in toddlers and young children the understanding of toys, objects and cultural artefacts and the links between materiality and sociality;
5. To investigate cultural interactive patterns and shared practices such as group learning, playing, teamwork, distributed cognition, creating applied knowledge for education, management, and organizational development. 

We are now calling for applications for 17 positions from bright, highly motivated graduates coming from the neurosciences, neuropsychiatry, philosophy or psychology and interested in empirical and conceptual research.

• 12 positions for "early stage researchers" (ESR), 36 months duration, candidates in possession of a relevant Masters degree (or close to obtaining it) with not more than 4 years of full time research experience, and
• 5 positions for "experienced researchers" (ER; postdoctoral positions), 21/22 months duration, candidates with 3 to at most 5 years (PhD, including the period of doctoral studies) or 4 to at most 5 years (no PhD) of full time research experience. For all positions prolongations are possible. 

For details follow the links below for each position and/or get in touch with the corresponding coordinator for informal enquiries.

• Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg; Germany, Prof. Thomas Fuchs
  • 1 ER (postdoc) position,
  • 1 ESR position
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment1.htm
• Universidad del Pais Vasco, San Sebastián; Spain, Prof. Ezequiel Di Paolo
  • 1 ER (postdoc) position
  • 1 ESR position
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment2.htm
• Københavns Universitet; Denmark, Prof. Dan Zahavi
  • 1 ER (postdoc) position
  • 1 ESR position
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment3.htm
• Klinikum Rechts der Isar der Technischen Universitaet Muenchen; Germany, Prof. Peter Henningsen 
  • 2 ESR positions
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment4.htm
• University of Portsmouth; UK, Prof. Vasu Reddy; Prof. Alan Costall
  • 2 ESR positions
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment5.htm
• Universitá degli Studi di Parma; Italy, Prof. Vittorio Gallese
  • 1 ER (postdoc) position
  • 2 ESR positions
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment6.htm
• The University of Hertfordshire; UK, Prof. Shaun Gallagher; Prof. Dan Hutto
  • 2 ESR positions
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment7.htm
• Aarhus Universitet; Denmark, Prof. Andreas Roepstorff
  • 1 ER (postdoc) position,
  • 1 ESR position
  • http://www.tesis-itn.eu/recruitment8.htm 

If you are interested in one of these positions, please send your application - preferably by email - including CV, statement of research interests and two references (name, email, phone) before the closing date to the coordinating node: 

Heribert Sattel, heribert.sattel@med.uni-heidelberg.de, Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Vossstr. 2-4, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany. 

Closing date for applications: 31.05.2011

Approximate starting date for the positions is between 01.09.2011 and 30.10.2011