Come join the lab, we are hiring!
We're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to study the development and individual-level organization of brain circuits supporting flexible and inflexible behavior in healthy and psychiatric populations.
Details 👉 tinyurl.com/3h8tcv2e 🗓️ Apply by Dec 10!
If you would like to know more about the role, please contact Matilde
Postdoctoral applicants
If you are interested in joining our group, please contact Matilde directly (m.vaghi@bbk.ac.uk). She is glad to discuss job opportunities and potential applications to independent research fellowships including but not limited to: Marie Curie Individual Fellowships (Fall deadline), British Academy Postodoctoral Fellowships (Fall deadline), Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships (Spring deadline), Newton International Fellowships (Spring deadline; only for candidates coming from overseas).
PhD students
There are a variety of routes into doing a PhD in the Vaghi Lab. If you are interested in joining the lab as a PhD student, please email Matilde (m.vaghi@bbk.ac.uk) attaching your CV, and we can discuss the best way forward.
Centrally funded programmes
The School of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck hosts a number of centrally funded PhD programmes, including:
LiDO DTP
The usual route is to apply directly to these programmes. If you are interested in joining the lab under any of these programmes, please do get in touch. If you gain a place and are interested in a rotation placement in the lab (with a view to a potential PhD supervision), please do get in touch.
Funded positions
We do not currently have grant-funded PhD positions available in the lab.
Direct application
The School of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck , funds a limited number of places via demonstratorships (TA positions). If this is of interest, please get in touch.
If you have access to other sources of PhD funding and are keen to join the lab, please reach out to Matilde to discuss further.
Masters projects
If you are a Masters student at Birkbeck or elsewhere and you are interested in pursuing a research project in the lab, please get in touch (ideally, in the summer or early autumn before you start your Masters year).
Visitors/interns
We are happy to host visits/internships as part of taught/research degree programmes. Please contact Matilde to discuss further.
The lab has access to state-of-the-art research facilities including research-dedicated MRI at the Birkbeck-UCL Centre for Neuroimaging (BUCNI) and it is affiliated to the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) at Birkbeck, University of London