The Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. Ralph Hertwig), seeks applicants (m/f/d) for The position is available from April 2019 onwards, but later start dates are possible. Candidates (m/f/d) should be interested in studying the mechanisms underlying decision making and learning, and the computational modeling thereof.

Job description: The Center for Adaptive Rationality takes an interdisciplinary approach to cognitive science and decision making. Candidates (m/f/d) should be interested in using behavioral, neurocognitive, and/or computational methods to study decision making. Expertise with any one of these methodologies is required, but experience with computational modeling is highly recommended; experience with EEG techniques would be beneficial but is not essential.

The successful candidate (m/f/d) will be part of the International Max Planck Research School on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research (COMP2PSYCH; https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/en/research/research-schools/ imprs-comp2psych). COMP2PSYCH is an international and interdisciplinary doctoral program of the Max Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, with sites in London and Berlin. The training program involves seminars, methods workshops, participation in summer schools, and collaborative supervision of research training.

Requirements:Candidates (m/f/d) must hold, or anticipate receiving very soon as shown in supporting documents, a master's degree, diploma or equivalent in psychology, economics, cognitive (neuro)science, or a related field, and demonstrate expertise in judgement and decision making and/or experimental economics. There are no teaching obligations with this position. For further inquiries about the position, please contact Thorsten Pachur (pachur@mpib-berlin.mpg.de) and/or Bernhard Spitzer (spitzer@mpib-berlin.mpg.de).

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de) offers an excellent infrastructure including support staff and equipment for conducting experiments (e.g., behavioral laboratory, eye tracking, fMRI, EEG). It provides an international research environment, with English being the working language of the Center for Adaptive Rationality.

The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.

How to apply:
We offer a generous three-year contract-based position as well as research expenses and travel funding to conferences or courses. Students will participate in international summer schools, seminars and workshops, and have the opportunity to conduct a research project of up to 6 months in London. Applicants (m/f/d) should submit a cover letter describing research interests, curriculum vitae and one single representative paper (published or working paper) as a single PDF file with your name as the file name. In addition, two letters of recommendation should be sent separately.

Applications should be submitted without a photo to arc-applications@mpib-berlin.mpg.de, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin. In the correspondence, please use "Predoctoral Researcher on Computational Modeling" in the subject line. Applications for the position must be submitted by January 15, 2019 to ensure consideration. However, review of applications will continue until the available position is filled.