Job announcement
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University of Oldenburg

application deadline: not specified
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Doctoral student positions in animal navigation at University of Oldenburg


We are currently offering a doctoral student position in a new BMBF focus group investigating learning mechanisms in the brain: Our contribution to this consortium is focussed on “Celestial compass learning: behavioural and neuronal mechanisms” (for the first years, the focus will be on behavioural experiments combined with some neuroanatomy).

You should be
(1) interested in the area of bird navigation mechanisms and learning mechanisms in general; (2) willing to learn and use many different techniques spanning from behavioural observation to molecular biology; (3) aware that a good Ph.D. project requires hard work and personal dedication; (4) speaking reasonably gut English. Experience in behavioural biology, hand-raising of animals, and histology techniques (behavioural molecular mapping (like ZENK) including cryo-cutting, staining, etc.) would be advantageous. A masters level education in natural sciences is mandatory.

The group is located at the University of Oldenburg, Germany and will be part of a Bernstein centre of excellence consisting of five groups, one in Oldenburg, one in Berlin, one in Bremen and two in Bochum. These collaborations will give you access to a very wide range of superb modern equipment, techniques and expertise. Our working group is also member of the DFG Forschergruppe “Dynamic and stability of retinal processing” and of the international graduate school “Neurosensory sciences”. Therefore, you will become part of a larger team working closely together on related questions. For more information about our group, see http://www.member.uni-oldenburg.de/henrik.mouritsen/

If this sounds interesting to you and if you are 1) in the top 20% of students in your cohort, 2) if you are seriously interested in the position, and 3) will be able to show up for a personal interview in Oldenburg, please send an application including your CV, names and addresses of at least two references knowing you well, and university and high school certificates as soon as possible to Prof. Dr. Henrik Mouritsen, IBU, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, D-26111 Oldenburg or to email address:
henrik.mouritsen@uni-oldenburg.de
We will start looking at the applications as soon as they arrive, and will keep looking until the position is filled. Our ideal starting date would be as soon as possible.