<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">The Research Training Group RTG 2070 „Understanding Social Relationships“ (Speaker: Prof. Julia Fischer) at the Georg-August-University Göttingen and the German Primate Center Göttingen offers positions for </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">12 Ph.D. candidates</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; ">beginning on October 1st, 2015. The salary is in accordance with the German public service <span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; ">salary scale (E13 TV-L)</span> with 65% of the regular working hours (currently 25.87 hours per week) for up to three years. The scientific disciplines involved in the RTG are Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, Psychology, (Psycho-) Linguistics, and Sign Language Linguistics.</font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; line-height: 16px; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><br></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">The research projects of the RTG focus on the social relationships of human and non-human primates. The common aim is to identify core principles explaining the development, maintenance and function of social relationships. Research is structured in the three domains “social signals”, “social monitoring” and “social coordination”, but specific emphasis will be laid upon the interplay between the domains. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">Ideal candidates have a background in one of the scientific disciplines (or related fields) represented in this RTG. A strong interest in interdisciplinary research and the willingness to engage in scientific exchange with other disciplines is essential. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">Candidates should fulfill the following requirements:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- A very good M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in Behavioral or Cognitive Biology, Psychology, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or similar fields</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- Very good English skills (written and spoken)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- Good statistical and analytical skills</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- Willingness to work in interdisciplinary teams</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- Experience in one or more of the following areas is beneficial: observational or experimental studies with human children or adults, deaf adult signers, or non-human primates in captive and/or field conditions, EEG, eye-tracking, individual differences, behavioral endocrinology </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">- Some projects include prolonged periods of fieldwork in Thailand, Senegal or Morocco. Candidates interested in these projects must be physically fit and able to cope with field work conditions (working in remote areas, long working hours, intercultural challenges, etc.). </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><br></span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">The University of Göttingen and the German Primate Center are equal opportunities employers and place particular emphasis on fostering career opportunities for women. Qualified women are therefore strongly encouraged to apply as they are underrepresented in this field. </span></font><font class="text" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; color: rgb(67, 67, 67); overflow-x: visible; overflow-y: visible; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favored. </span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">Detailed information on the application process, the research topics and the training program are available at </span></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://www.uni-goettingen.de/social-relationships">www.uni-goettingen.de/social-relationships</a>. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); line-height: 16px; ">Candidates are required to indicate up to two preferred projects.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><br></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(67, 67, 67); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">Please send your application with the usual documents in electronic form by May 31st to the </span><span style="line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-style: none; 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