The Department of Psychology, section of Personality and Individual Differences, Prof. Erik
Mueller, is currently accepting applications for a
Postdoctoral researcher
The position is offered for a period of 4 years, if no former times of qualification must be
considered. The starting date is as soon as possible. An extension may be granted after pos-
itive evaluation. The position is full-time with salary and benefits commensurate with a pub-
lic service position in the state Hesse, Germany (TV-H E 13, 100 %).
Responsibilities include research and lecturing, in particular conducting and supervising psy-
chophysiological emotion and personality research with a focus on fear, anxiety and neurot-
icism and teaching in the field of personality and assessment.
The position is limited to the period which is adequate to the duration of the qualification
period. The qualification goal is a habilitation or an equivalent qualification required for a
professorship. Within the scope of the assigned duties it will offer the possibility of inde-
pendent scientific research for further qualification. The limitation complies to § 2, 1 S 1
WissZeitVG.
Required is a MSc (or equivalent) and a PhD (or equivalent) degree in Psychology or a related
discipline. Our group investigates processes that are involved in fear, anxiety, depression
and neuroticism using psychophysiological measures (e.g. EEG, ECG, EDA). It is expected that
the successful applicant contributes to our research in this field and creates their individual
research program. Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, Presentation, Python), solid knowledge
with regard to statistics software and engagement for open science are considered an addi-
tional advantage.
For questions, please contact Prof. Erik Mueller at erik.mueller@uni-marburg.de.
We support women and strongly encourage them to apply. In areas where women are un-
derrepresented, female applicants will be preferred in case of equal qualifications. Appli-
cants with children are welcome – Philipps-University is certified as a family-friendly univer-
sity. Sharing a full-time position (§ 8 Abs. 2 S. 1 HGlG) as well as a reduction of working time
is possible. Applicants with a disability as described in SGB IX (§ 2 Abs. 2, 3) will be preferred
in case of equal qualifications. Application and interview costs can not be refunded.
All application documents must be sent to Prof. Erik Mueller erik.mueller@uni-mar-
burg.de before November 12th, 2021, citing reference number fb04-0037-wmz-2021.
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