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Further Information Research Associate Department of Psychiatry © Cambridge Biomedical Campus, 2014 www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk www.medschl.cam.ac.uk Page 1 of 12 Further Information Job title Research Associate Grade 7 Salary range £28,695 - £37,394 Staff Group Research Department / Institution Department of Psychiatry Role-specific information Role Summary Applications are invited for an experienced and enthusiastic neuroimager to join the Drug Addiction Research group led by Dr Karen Ersche. The post will be based at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge UK and operates within a dynamic multidisciplinary team of clinical and non-clinical scientists within the Cambridge University Departments of Psychiatry, Psychology and Clinical Neurosciences. It provides access to translational neuroscience in terms of imaging methods, research facilities and cognitive neuroscience. The Drug Addiction Research group focuses on functional and structural brain abnormalities associated with the risk of and the resilience to drug addiction, and the effects that chronic drug exposure has on the brain. A wide range of advanced structural (e.g. surface- and connectivity-based cortical parcellation, diffusion tractography) and functional (e.g. connectivity metrics) magnetic resonance imaging methods will be used to address the relevant research questions. Applicants should have a PhD degree with a strong background in neuroimaging data analysis. Proficiency with Python, Matlab, or R languages, and other neuroimaging analysis software (e.g. FSL, AFNI, SPM, etc.) and experience with fMRI and DTI analyses are expected. In order to maximise the rese