UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF) to pursue a career in research. We invite applications from promising young researchers within the field of Neurolinguistics. The selected candidate will write a proposal for a 24-month MSCA-PF at UiT together with Associate Professor Vincent DeLuca. This is an opportunity to accelerate your research career while living in the urban research city of Tromsø, uniquely located at the top of the world surrounded by some of Europe’s last pristine wild nature.

This call is one of 70 from pre-selected supervisors at UiT The Arctic University of Norway through the “Arctic MSCA-PF program”. Successful postdoc candidates will be invited for a three-day MSCA-PF symposium June 4-6, 2024 (hybrid physical/digital event, see details at uit.no/project/arcticmsca/program-structure). At this event, the candidates will present their past research achievements, discuss future plans with their potential supervisor and learn how to write a successful MSCA-PF application. The selected candidates will, jointly with the supervisor, write the MSCA-PF application by the deadline of September 11, 2024.

In this call we search for talented, young researchers within the field of neurolinguistics as presented by Associate Professor DeLuca:

My primary research interests are in bilingualism and its effects on brain structure and function. I am specifically interested in different aspects of bilingual experience (e.g., age a second language is learned, frequency and intensity of use) and how these might differently affect neural and cognitive adaptations. I am also interested in how these adaptations dynamically shift over time and/or with any changes to patterns of language use. I use a combination of behavioral and brain imaging (EEG, MRI) methods to examine this. I work within the Centre for Language, Brain, and Learning (C-LaBL), the AcqVA Aurora Centre (Acquisition, Variation & Attrition), and the Psycholinguistics of Language Representation (PoLaR) Lab, where we do cutting-edge research on language acquisition and brain/cognitive outcomes of multilingualism, using various research methodologies, both offline (elicitation, production, etc.) and online (eye-tracking, EEG/ERP, etc.).  

Please send your CV (max 3 pages) and describe a research project that will strengthen and complement the presented research (max 2 pages) to vincent.f.deluca@uit.no by Feb 16th 2024. Mark your application "Arctic MSCA". Successful candidates will be contacted in late March 2024.