Job Detail

Your challenge
The project aims at discovering and establishment of proxies predicting post-stroke cognitive trajecto-ries to improve the patients care after stroke and to reduce the impact of (post-stroke) dementia. Be-sides the longitudinal neuropsychological testing and behavioral assessment of stroke patients, the can-didate will analyze the individual pre-stroke behavioral proxies, post-stroke life style and clinical MRI images to evaluate lesion anatomy and other imaging proxies of stroke recovery.

Your profile

• Master degree in neuropsychology


• a strong interest in clinical neuropsychology and patient-centered research


• basic knowledge in neuropsychological testing


• experience in neuroimaging analysis or motivation to become acquainted with it


• possess basic programming (MATLAB, R) and analysis skills will be an advantage


• excellent written and spoken German


• excellent written English skills, ability to work independently and together with a research team

Our range

• comprehensive training opportunities including curricula offered by The Graduate School for Health Sciences (GHS) of University of Bern


• extensive supervision and integration into a multidisciplinary, experienced research team of Stroke Re-search Group


• participation in meetings and conferences

As a leading university hospital with a rich tradition, the Inselspital is part of the Insel Group and is a centre of medical expertise and high technology with an international reputation as well as being a first-class training and research centre.

Contact

Contact
For further information, please contact
PD Dr. Roza Umarova, Oberärztin I
Phone +41 31 632 70 00