Principal Research Engineer in Experimental Psychiatry

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Skilled and committed employees are a crucial factor in the success of Linköping University. And we need more of them. Our core expertise comes from teachers and researchers, but a successful university requires experienced and motivated employees in many fields. Everyone is important. We need to recruit many new employees thanks to, among all, an expansion in our research activity. We need you here. We look forward to receiving your application!

The Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKE) is one of the university's largest departments, with operations mainly in the Faculty of Health Sciences.
Our aim is to engage in medical and biomedical education and research of high international standing. At undergraduate level the department is responsible for most of the medical programme, the speech and language pathology programme and the medical biology programme.
Read more at https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/ike

We are looking for a principal research engineer within the department of Clinical and Experimental medicine.

Your future work assignments
Your work assignments will include:

• Design, acquisition and analysis of data from animal studies in the field of affective disorders and addiction
• Advanced technical work in the field of neuropsychopharmacology
• Behavioral studies in rodents, including models of drug self-administration and microsurgery
• Supervision of undergraduate and graduate students

Your future workplace
You will work in a research laboratory at Center for Social and Affective Neuroscience (CSAN).

Your qualifications
The applicant must have a PhD in Medicine, Neuroscience or a closely related field. The applicant is expected to have in depth knowledge in the areas of pharmacology and neuroscience. Completed course in laboratory animal science (LiU course number 8MEA05-Laboratory Animal Sciences, 7.5 credits or equivalent course) as well as experience in rodent models of drug addiction/mood disorders including operant self-administration and behavioral paradigms for assessing anxiety and depression is a requirement. You must also have experience in stereotaxic brain surgery and intravenous catheterization in rats, as well as molecular and biochemical analyses such as immunohistochemistry, enzyme linked immunoassay, RNAscope, Western Blotting and a good knowledge in confocal microscopy.

The applicant should demonstrate capability for independent work. Strong interpersonal skills are highly valued. The applicant should be familiar with dissemination of scientific research and have a good publication record in journals and attended conferences. Experience in student supervision would be a particular merit.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and suitability.

Form of employment
Permanent employment

Starting date
By agreement

Salary
The university applies individual salaries. Please indicate salary demands in the application.

Union representatives
For contact with union representatives see below.

To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below no later than May 31, 2019. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

Equal opportunities
A majority of our principal research engineers within the department are women which is why precedence will be given to men in cases where qualifications are deemed otherwise equivalent.

Linköping University will continue to develop as an attractive and creative place of work, characterized by equal terms and actively works for equality and diversity.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Linköping university has framework agreements and wishes to decline direct contacts from staffing- and recruitment companies as well as from vendors of job advertisements.

Varaktighet, arbetstid
Heltid/ Ej specificerat

Publiceringsdatum
2019-05-17

Ersättning
By agreement

Så ansöker du
Sista dag att ansöka är 2019-05-31
Klicka på denna länk för att göra din ansökan

Kontakt
Markus Heilig, Professor, avd.chef, ämnesansvarig markus.heilig@liu.se
Ann-Charlotte Johansson, Research coordinator ann-charlotte.johansson@liu.se
Therese Lothigius, HR-administratör therese.lothigius@liu.se 013-28 66 19

Företag
Linköpings Universitet

Adress
Linköpings Universitet
Linköping University
58183 Linköping

Kontorsadress
Linköping University

Jobbnummer
4796365

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