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Support us from 01.12.2025 in part-time (75 %) as a

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPETENCES

• Completed Master degree in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sports science or a related discipline
• Knowledge of the structure and function of the human sensorimotor system, in particular the control of eye movements, mastery of experimental methods, including the measurement of eye movements
• Programming skills, especially Python

• Research in the priority program UGaze (SPP 2481,UGaze - Ulm University), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at Giessen, in cooperation with scientists at the University of Jena on the topic of eye movements in interactive and collaborative actions
• Conducting experimental studies and recording eye, hand and body movements using motion capture systems
• Statistical analysis of the movement data
• Publication of the results in scientific journals and presentation at scientific events
• Participation in research in the Department of Experimental Psychology, team “Perception and Action”, particularly in the field of sensorimotor control