Call | Open Positions

General information

Calls for positions in the PhD programs will be internationally published and advertised at the EURAXESS website (https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/) and online job markets of the scientific societies representing the respective underlying research fields. The calls will also be published here at the website of the Karl Landsteiner Private University of Health Sciences as well as at the FWF job market (www.fwf.ac.at/en/service/fwf-job-market/).

First Call 

Students with a keen interest in mental health and neuroscience are invited to apply for one of 8 vacant doctoral studentships within the newly established PhD programme 

Mental Health and Neuroscience: Disease mechanisms – Diagnostics and Therapy – Clinical Neuroscience.

The PhD programme, which is run by the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, follows international recommendations to support the integration of global mental health and neuroscience into research on psychiatric diagnosis, pathogenesis, nervous system disorders and their treatment. Students accepted into the program will receive a specialized training in:

• I. neurobiological and neurophysiological basics of brain diseases (Disease mechanisms),
• II. examination, diagnostics and therapy of mental health (Diagnostics and Therapy),
• III. clinical and applied neuroscience (Clinical Neuroscience).

For the general admission requirements please refer to

https://www.kl.ac.at/de/studium-und-weiterbildung/doctoral-school/selection-procedures-and-admission-phd-degree

Excellent command of English is indispensable.

For the enrollement in a PhD programme at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences the tuition fee is € 3.500,- per semester for a total of 6 semesters. Depending on the employment status of the PhD student (e.g., university or third-party funding, clinical specialist in training) a partial tuition fee waiver can be granted. 

Applications must be received by September 15^th, 2024! The top candidates will be interviewed in Krems in September/October 2024. Research will start in October 2024 at the earliest.

Overview of research projects

• Project 1: Neurosciences and Mental Health in Adult Psychiatry and Transitional Psychiatry (Supervisor Prim. Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Martin Aigner)
• Project 2: Neuronal metabolism and its role in epileptogenesis (Supervisor Ing. Matej Hotka PhD)
• Project 3: Morphological changes of the CNS after particle therapy and correlation with clinical parameters (Supervisor Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sascha Klee)
• Project 4: In vitro reconstitution of α₂δ protein disease mutations in hippocampal neurons (Supervisor Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gerald Obermair)
• Project 5: Digital Mental Health and Health Inequalities (Supervisor Univ.-Prof. Dr. Giovanni Rubeis)
• Project 6: Analysis of the radiological dynamics of primary lymphomas of the central nervous system under the influence of corticosteroid therapy (Supervisor Prim. Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Camillo Sherif)
• Project 7: CO₂ and adolescents’ cognitive and motor performance (Supervisor Univ.-Prof. PD Mag. Dr. Stefan Stieger)
• Project 8: Modulation of the autonomic nervous system in acute neurological diseases (Supervisor Prim. Assoc. Prof. PD Dr. Walter Struhal MSc FEAN)

Detailed project descriptions can be found in the download document.

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