31.1218, Jobs: Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: Assoc/Full Professor, The Arctic University of Norway

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Subject: 31.1218, Jobs: Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: Assoc/Full Professor, The Arctic University of Norway

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Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2020 03:27:54
From: Marit Westergaard [marit.westergaard at uit.no]
Subject: Neurolinguistics, Psycholinguistics: Assoc/Full Professor, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

 
University or Organization: The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) 
Department: Department of Language and Culture
Job Location: Tromsø, Norway 
Web Address: https://uit.no/research/acqva
Job Title: (Associate) Professorship in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Bilingualism
Job Rank: Assoc/Full Professor

Specialty Areas: Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Bilingualism


Description:

One permanent position as Full/Associate Professor is available in the
Department of Language and Culture at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
(UiT). The position is affiliated with the AcqVA Aurora Centre: The Dynamic
Nature of Languages in the Mind. 

AcqVA Aurora currently consists of more than 30 active researchers, including
seven professors/associate professors, a lab manager, 12
researchers/postdoctoral fellows, four PhD students, and eight Professor II
positions (20% adjunct professors). The Aurora Centre funding will add 10
outstanding researchers to the current team: Four postdoc/researcher
positions, four Professor II positions, one lab manager and the advertized
position as associate/full professor.

Together with other key contributors in this area, Professor Jason Rothman,
Adjunct Professors Jubin Abutalebi (Vita Salute San Raffaele) and Jon Andoni
Duñabeitia (Nebrija) and a postdoctoral researcher, the new associate/full
professor will play a key, formative role in defining Bilingualism and
Neurocognition research in AcqVA Aurora. The theme is primarily focused on
investigating the cognitive and neurological outcomes of bilingual experience
across the lifespan. We are especially interested in applications from younger
as well as more established researchers whose work explores determinants of
bilingual competence and language use (across different types of bilinguals)
that relate to potential neurocognitive effects from childhood through older
age, as well as various types of neurodegeneration. Researchers are encouraged
to apply with active programs in understanding (the conditions relating to)
how, why and if bilingualism: (i) might result in neuroanatomical changes,
(ii) relates to/results in cognitive and/or neural reserve, (iii) confers
differential efficiency in task performance at the brain level, (iv)
potentially affects executive control processes more generally, and/or (v)
comes to bear on healthy ageing and neurodegeneration across the lifespan.

Expertise in neuroimaging is required; structural analyses, e.g. volumetric
analyses such as VBM and analyses related to diffusion such as TBSS,
task-related and/or resting state functional analyses and/or Magnetic
Resonance Spectroscopy and related analyses. Knowledge and/or interest in EEG,
especially ERP and neural oscillation analyses are also highly desirable.
Training in or knowledge of linguistics/language science is also desirable.
For the associate professor level, more junior scholars with a PhD in hand, an
established record of publications in the relevant field as well as promise
for external funding will be considered. For appointments at the professorial
rank, a considerably higher level of scholarly, teaching and supervisory
achievements is expected, commensurable with Regulations concerning
appointment and promotion to teaching and research posts in Norway. 

For further information about AcqVA Aurora or the current position, please
consult the website and/or contact Professors Jason Rothman or Marit
Westergaard (emails: jason.rothman at uit.no, marit.westergaard at uit.no) or Head
of Department Linda Nesby, e-mail: linda.nesby at uit.no.

The complete announcement may be found at the application link below.



Application Deadline: 11-May-2020 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/184771/professor-associate-professor-in-the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-bilingualism 
Contact Information:
	Professor Marit Westergaard 
	Email: marit.westergaard at uit.no 


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