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[EXPIRED] The Capital Region of Copenhagen is looking for A Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multimodal EEG

 3-year postdoctoral research fellow position in multimodal EEG at Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance

We are scaling up our research into brain dynamics using electroencephalography combined with advanced Transcranial Brain Stimulation (TBS) and functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Our goal is to trace stimulation induced brain dynamics with high temporal and spatial resolution to develop next-generation personalized brain stimulation therapies. More specifically, we conduct state-of-the-art neuroimaging-informed brain stimulation therapy in Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis, and Major Depressive Disorder. We are a world leading institution in both informing and reading out brain stimulation effects with EEG and fMRI.

We are looking for an experienced postdoc or research fellow, who:

  • has extensive experience in EEG research and analysis
  • enjoys working at the intersection of engineering, neurophysiology, neuroimaging, and clinical neuroscience, and
  • is eager to advance to the use of EEG in combination with TBS and fMRI

Your role:

You will join a transdisciplinary team focusing on developing and analyzing precision brain stimulation therapy by combining transcranial magnetic stimulation with neuroimaging. You will work in our state-of-the-art brain stimulation laboratories equipped with robotic transcranial brain stimulation, neuronavigation, and EEG

Responsibilities:

  • Design and conduct EEG-informed precision stimulation experiments
  • Acquire and analyze data and write up results for publication and dissemination
  • Contribute to developing precision brain stimulation protocols using MRI and EEG read-outs
  • Lead the education, methods development, and standardization of EEG research at DRCMR, focusing on developing multimodal TBS-EEG, TBS-MRI, and TBS-EEG-MRI methodologies

Essential skills & experience:

  • Extensive experience with EEG including strong signal processing skills
  • A PhD degree in neuroscience, biomedical/electrical engineering, clinical medicine, or related field
  • A strong publication record in peer-reviewed publications
  • Team-player with strong written and interpersonal communication skills

Advantageous skills & experience: 

  • Experience with the combination of EEG with TMS and/or MRI.
  • Experience in teaching and supervision of students and technicians

Working at DRCMR: You will join the Brain Circuit Modulation & Therapy group, led by Hartwig Siebner at the DRCMR (www.drcmr.dk) based at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with engineers, neurologists, psychologists, and interact with other groups at DRCMR.

DRCMR is a leading research center for biomedical MRI in Europe. Approximately 75 researchers from a diverse range of disciplines are currently pursuing basic and clinically applied research. The DRCMR is embedded in the Dept. for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre, Copenhagen, Denmark. DRCMR has a state-of-the-art MR-research infrastructure enabling translational research, which includes a pre-clinical 7T MR scanner, six whole-body MR scanners (one 7T, four 3T and a 1.5T scanner) and a High-Performance Computer cluster. The DRCMR has pre-clinical labs, a neuropsychology laboratory, an EEG laboratory, and five laboratories for precision brain circuit stimulation. It is situated ~25mins cycle ride from central Copenhagen, a city consistently ranked one of the highest in the world for quality of life [link].

 

Selected Publications

Recent publications & Pre-prints 

Naiara Demnitz, Oliver J. Hulme, Hartwig R. Siebner, Michael Kjaer, Klaus P. Ebmeier, Carl-Johan Boraxbekk, Claire M. Gillan (2023). Characterising the covariance pattern between lifestyle factors and structural brain measures: a multivariable replication study of two independent ageing cohorts, Neurobiology of Aging, Volume 131,2023, Pages 115-123, ISSN 0197-4580,IF 3.7.

TH Siebner, JD Hove, CF Madelung, OJ Hulme, F Bendtsen, HR Siebner, Flemming Bendtsen, Mads Barløse (2024). No difference in postprandial mesenteric blood flow between healthy younger and elderly individuals, Scientific Reports 14 (1), 8689.

TS Hjerresen, M Bentz, AB Nejad, E Raffin, KW Andersen, OJ Hulme, Hartwig Roman Siebner, Kerstin Jessica Plessen. Performing well but not appreciating it–A trait feature of anorexia nervosa. JCPP advances 4 (1), e12194.

Oliver Hulme, Arne Vanhoyweghen, Colm Connaughton, Ole Peters, Simon Steinkamp, Alexander Adamou, Dominik Baumann, Vincent Ginis, Bert Verbruggen, James Price, and Benjamin Skjold (2023). Reply to “The Limitations of Growth-Optimal Approaches to Decision Making Under Uncertainty”. Econ Journal Watch, 20(2) p335-348.

Hulme Oliver J., Roulston Barrie, Overgaard Morten (2023). Does report modality modulate psychophysical sensitivity? The jury remains out. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1226588.

Thorup AAE,… Hulme OJ, … Nordentoft M (2022). The Danish High-Risk and Resilience Study-VIA 15 - A Study Protocol for the Third Clinical Assessment of a Cohort of 522 Children Born to Parents Diagnosed With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder and Population-Based Controls. Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Lopez-Yepez JS, Martin J, Hulme OJ, Kvitsiani D. (2021). A normative account of choice history effects in mice and humans. PloS Computational Biology.

Lopez-Yepez JS, Martin J, Hulme OJ, Kvitsiani D. (2021)
A normative account of choice history effects in mice and humans
PLoS Computational Biology

Meder D, Rabe F, Morville T, Madsen KH, Koudahl MT, Dolan RJ, Siebner HR, Hulme OJ. (2021)
Ergodicity-breaking reveals time optimal economic behavior in humans
PLoS Computational Biology

Morville T, Friston KJ, Burdakov D, Siebner HR, Hulme OJ. (Pre-print)
The Homeostatic Logic of Reward
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/242974.

Morville T, Madsen K, Siebner HR, Hulme OJ. (2021)
Reward signaling in brainstem nuclei under glycemic flux
PloS One

Hulme, OJ, Wagenmakers EJ, Damkier P, Madelung CF, Siebner HR, Helweg-Larsen J, Gronau Q, Benfield TL, Madsen KH. (2021) A Bayesian reanalysis of the effects of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin on viral carriage in patients with COVID-19.
PloS One. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245048

Friston KJ, Parr T, Zeidman P, Razi A, Flandin G, Daunizau J, Hulme OJ, Billig AJ., Litvak V, Price CJ., Moran RJ., Costello A, Pillay D, Lambert C. (2020)
Effective immunity and second waves: a dynamic causal modelling study
Wellcome Open Res2020, 5:204 (doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16253.2)

van der Vegt JPM, Hulme OJ, Madsen KH, Buhmann C, Bloem BR, Münchau A, Helmich RC, Siebner HR (2020)
Dopamine agonist treatment increases sensitivity to gamble outcomes in the hippocampus in de novo Parkinson’s disease
NeuroImage Clinical

Faranda D, Castillo IP, Hulme OJ, Jezequel A, Lamb J, Sato Y, Thompson E, (2020)                                                                         
Asymptotic estimates of SARS-CoV-2 infection counts and their sensitivity to stochastic perturbation
Chaos. 2020;30(5):051107. doi:10.1063/5.0008834

Friston KJ, Parr T, Zeidman P, Razi A, Flandin G, Daunizau J, Hulme OJ, Billig AJ, Litvak V, Price CJ, Moran RJ., Lambert C. (2020)
Second waves, social distancing, and the spread of COVID-19 across America.
Wellcome Open Res 2020, 5:103 (doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15986.1)

Friston KJ, Parr T, Zeidman P, Razi A, Flandin G, Daunizau J, Hulme OJ, Billig AJ, Litvak V, Price CJ, Moran RJ, Lambert C. (2020)
Dynamic causal modelling of COVID-19.
Wellcome Open Res 2020, 5:89

Friston KJ, Parr T, Zeidman P, Razi A, Flandin G, Daunizau J, Hulme OJ, Billig AJ., Litvak V, Price CJ., Moran RJ., Costello A, Pillay D, Lambert C. (2020)
Testing and tracking in the UK: A dynamic causal modelling study
Wellcome Open Research 5 (144), 144  

Hulme OJ, Morville T, Gutkin B. (2019)
Neurocomputational Theories of Homeostatic Control
Physics of Life Reviews, Jul 19. pii: S1571-0645(19)30100-9. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.07.005  

Hulme OJ, Webb EJ, Sebald A. (2019)
An Introduction to Physiological Economics
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Experimental Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Hulme OJ, Kvitsiani D. (2019)
Extending Models of How Foraging Works: Uncertainty, Controllability, and Survivability
Behavioral and Brain Sciences 2019 Jan;42:e43. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18002017

Hallsson BG, Siebner HR, Hulme OJ. (2018)
Fairness, fast and slow: A review of dual process models of fairness
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Jun;89:49-60. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.02.016.

Christensen BJ, Schmidt JB, Nielsen MS, Tækkerd L, Holm L, Lunn S, Brediee WLP, Ritz C, Holst JJ, Hansen T, Hilbert A, le Roux CW, Hulme OJ, Siebner HR, Morville T, Naver L, Floyd, AK, Sjödin A. (2018)
Patient profiling for success after weight loss surgery: An interdisciplinary study protocol
Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications. Feb 17;10:121-130. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2018.02.002.

Larsen KM, Mørup M,  Birknow MR, Fischer E, Hulme OJ,  Vangkilde A, Schmock H, Baaré WF, Didriksen M, Olsen L, Werge T, Siebner HR, Garrido MI. (2018)
Altered auditory processing and top-down connectivity in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome
Schizophrenia Research. Jan 30. pii: S0920-9964(18)30048-3. doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2018.01.026.

Meder D, Kolling N, Verhagen L, Wittmann MK, Scholl J, Madsen KH, Hulme OJ, Behrens TEJ, Rushworth MFS. (2017)
Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making
Nature Communications. Dec 5;8(1):1942. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-02169-w.

Friis-Olivarius M, Hulme OJ, Skov M, Ramsøy TZ, Siebner HR. (2017)
Imaging the Creative Unconscious: Reflexive Neural Responses to Objects in the Visual and Parahippocampal Region Predicts State and Trait Creativity
Scientific Reports. Oct 31;7(1):14420. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-14729-7.

Group Members

Oliver Hulme

Group Leader

Simon Steinkamp

Maria Elisabeth Catharina van der Weij

Rebecca Hjermind Millum

External Collaborators

Prof. Derek Byrne


Dr. Ole Peters


Dr. Alex Adamou


Dr. Mark Kirstein


Dr. Yonatan Berman


Prof. Sten Madsbad


Assoc. Prof. Tobias Andersen


Assoc. Prof. Christoffer Clemmensen


Postdoc Claus Brandt


Prof. Duda Kvitsiani


Adam Goldstein