PhD position in Urban Mental Health: UvA 1549 views

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Psychology Department at University of Amsterdam (UvA) in Computational modelling of psychological and social dynamics in urban mental health conditions: the case of addictive substance use.

About the project:

• The goal of this project is to integrate the psychological and social levels of explanation in an encompassing computational modeling framework.
• This modeling framework will be applied to study the interplay of substance use and mental health, and will provide a toolbox applicable to study other common mental health conditions throughout the Urban Mental Health (UMH) research priority area.

Requirements:

• Applicant must hold a strong affinity to both psychological research and computational modeling and a multidisciplinary and collaborative mindset;
• Applicant must demonstrate a strong motivation for pursuing a PhD, also demonstrated with a high GPA during the master’s study;
• Applicant must possess proficiency in programming in at least R and/or Python;
• Applicant must have familiarity with (social and psychological) network modeling, agent-based modeling, simulation studies and differential equations.

Applications:

Apply online and provide the following documents:

• A resume;
• A 1-page motivation letter describing why you wish to pursue this project and how candidate see itself fitting into the project description.