Lecturer as academic staff member in Germany

Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. It is located in the Rhine-Main science region, an environment ideal for develoing innovative strength and dynamism. As a comprehensive university, JGU enables interdisciplinary teaching and learning and opens up great potential for internationally renowned, interdisciplinary research. JGU unites almost all of its facilities on a campus close to the city center – a place of lively academic culture for researchers, teachers and students from all continents.

Duties of the position

The appointee will be expected to do independent empirical research activities with focus in the field of perceptual psychology; participate in the research activities of the research unit, which focuses on the areas of spatial cognition, virtual reality, time-to-contact estimation and optical illusions; implementate courses in the B.Sc. Psychology and M.Sc. Psychology degree pro-grams with a focus on application-oriented cognitive psychology; coordination of the Experimental Psychology Internship module in the B.Sc. Psychology program as well as implementation and further development of practical methods and statistics training as part of the module; supervise final theses in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Psychology degree programs; acquire and implementate third-party funded projects and pursue a Habilitation.

Required selection criteria

Applicants should possess a successfully completed scientific university degree in psychology; a doctorate in the field of general psychology, after successfully completing a university degree, full-time employment of at least two years and six months; research focus(s) ideally in the areas of visual perception, virtual reality and/or psychophysics; experience in the implementation and execution of experiments in virtual reality on cognitive psychological questions (e.g. in Python, Vizard); excellent knowledge of the methodological inventory of experimental psychology and psychophysics; profound teaching experience especially in research practice-oriented courses to teach skills and abilities in experimental research design, data collection and data analysis; profound teaching experience in software-based data preparation and analysis in SPSS and/or R; experience in the independent implementation of third-party funded projects and in the supervision of doctoral projects; high level of independence and organizational skills, strong commitment and willingness to perform; willingness to participate in academic self-administration; strong team orientation and commitment and enjoyment of conceptual and empirical experimental work.

Benefits 

The selected candidate will be offered a dynamic team with a total of 9 employees, well-equipped labs (VR lab with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive Pro 2, HTC Vive XR Elite, Hololens 2, eye tracker, treadmill, color lab, etc.); job ticket optionally in the entire Rhine-Main area; extensive personnel development offers and flexible working time arrangements.

Organisation/Company – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

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Country – Germany

Application Deadline – 13 May 2024