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PhD student [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=6Z8KJJU9]
University of Amsterdam Title of PhD project: What we do when the ice is thin: An investigation into the psychology of risk management
Project description:
Research on risk perception has shown that people’s perceptions of risk often fall victim to biases. People for example tend to overestimate their control over future events and as a consequence underestimate their vulnerability to many risks. Other risks (such as plane crashes) are generally overestimated because of the relative ease with which we can imagine their consequences.
Relatively little attention has yet been given to how people react when they perceive themselves as vulnerable and/or do perceive a risk as threatening. The current research aims to fill that void and thus focuses on the use of risk management strategies. One can distinguish psychological (e.g. denial, trivialization) and behavioural risk management strategies (e.g. directly reducing exposure to risk or buying insurance from a trusted company). A primary aim of the current research is to examine what the different behavioural and psychological strategies are that people employ when perceiving risks and what factors determines their choice for one particular strategy.
A unique aspect of this research is that it is funded by insurance company Achmea. As a consequence the research has both basic and applied objectives. This will, among others, be reflected in a combination between laboratory and field studies. Funds are therefore available to access large populations outside the university.
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Professor of Marketing [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=WY5QYAYL]
University of Amsterdam The current appointment is meant to strengthen the marketing area within the strategy & marketing section of the Amsterdam Business School (ABS). ABS has developed strongly in the past few years, has obtained Equis accreditation, and aims to grow further in the coming years, particularly in the areas of marketing and strategy. The current appointment includes a strengthening of the marketing area with a senior professor to help realise the ambition to become a major school in Europe.
We welcome applications from excellent candidates in the area of marketing with distinguished international research records that meet the requirements outlined below. The successful applicant will undertake and help coordinate research and teaching in the strategy & marketing section, and play a clear role in the further development of the section and the business school by adding seniority and international esteem.
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Ph.D. Position [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=I2C6VRN4]
Leiden University Project description:
The chromosomes of bacteria are organized and compacted into a nucleoid. This is achieved by the action of nucleoid-associated proteins that fold the genome by bending, wrapping or bridging it. In our group we investigate using a quantitative approach the mechanisms employed by the various proteins that are involved in compaction from a molecular level up to the level of the whole cell.
Currently we have open *PhD positions* on a number of projects. These projects range from reductionist studies in vitro at the level of single molecules (optical tweezers, scanning force microscopy etc.) all the way up to the level of in vivo cell imaging studies (fluorescence microscopy). Projects will be tailored depending on the training and interests of the candidates.
Research environment:
The Lab of Molecular Genetics is headed by prof. dr. Jaap Brouwer and houses research groups on DNA repair, chromatin structure, chromatin modifications, apoptotic pathways, and RNA viruses. It is embedded within the newly established “Cell Observatory”, where groups from the departments of biology, chemistry and physics have recently come together to facilitate multi-disciplinary research using state-of-the-art research equipment. This research project will be carried out in the group of Dr R.T. Dame.
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Post-doc on the project ‘I see what you mean: the basics of social processing’ ( [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=C73DDJBR]
Utrecht University Description of the project: The postdoc position is part of the VICI project titled “I see what you mean: the basics of social processing”, on the relation between lowlevel visual processes (such as context modulation and texture segregation) and the higher-order processing of facial information, from a developmental and genetic viewpoint, and with a special focus on autism.The studies will be done in a collaboration between the Department of Developmental Psychology and the Psychonomics Department (Utrecht University), and the Department of Psychiatry (University Medical Center Utrecht). Together, this cooperation offers a unique environment, that combines the facilities and expertise on (high-field) fMRI, EEG, and advanced genetic analyses, and expert knowledge on the basics of human cognition, perception and development from several research institutes (Linschoten Institute, Helmholtz Institute and Rudolf Magnus Institute).
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2 PhD researchers on the project ‘I see what you mean: the basics of social proc [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=2JO74L51]
Utrecht University Description of the project: The PhD positions are part of the VICI project titled “I see what you mean: the basics of social processing”, on the relation between lowlevel visual processes (such as context modulation and texture segregation) and the higher-order processing of facial information, from a developmental and genetic viewpoint, and with a special focus on autism.
The studies will be done in a collaboration between the Department of Developmental Psychology and the Psychonomics Department (Utrecht University), and the Department of Psychiatry (University Medical Center Utrecht). Together, this cooperation offers a unique environment, that combines the facilities and expertise on (high-field) fMRI, EEG, and advanced genetic analyses, and expert knowledge on the basics of human cognition, perception and development from several research institutes (Linschoten Institute, Helmholtz Institute and Rudolf Magnus Institute).
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PhD student Center of Experimental and Molecular Medicine [http://www.academictransfer.nl/org/vacancies/detail.cfm?vacature_ID=Y9UI85CS]
AMC Medical Research B.V. The Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine at the Academic Medical Center focuses on fundamental and translational research of protease-activated receptor (PAR) signaling. We aim to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying blood coagulation factor-induced PAR signaling in fibrosis and have recently identified PAR-2 as an important potential novel player in this field. The current project, which is a cooperation with the Cell Biology Department of the University Medical Center Groningen, extents these findings and focuses on the role of blood coagulation and PAR-2 in burn-dependent scar formation. In the project we will employ various inhibitors of coagulation-dependent PAR activation which are approved for human clinical use. These will be tested on their capacity to inhibit PAR-2 activation and subsequent fibrosis first in vitro and subsequently in vivo. Later on in the project, a human volunteer study will be initiated to establish whether inhibitors successful in animals are also capable of preventing scarring in the human situation.
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