PHD Candidate

PhD Candidate in Neuromodulation of Brain Oscillations during Cognition
8 september 2026 Maastricht University
WO
limburg, Maastricht
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Would you like to know how human behavior is explained by neural oscillations and how we can modulate them using non-invasive brain stimulation? Join us, and you will study neural oscillation dynamics in relation to working memory performance, using real-time combined EEG and non-invasive brain stimulation.
PhD Candidate in Neuromodulation of Brain Oscillations during Cognition - Our goal: We aim to investigate the role of prefrontal theta oscillation phase in cognition, with a focus on working memory. Specifically, we test the idea of phase coding, which proposes that oscillation phase encodes specific aspects of memory, like location and temporal order. While established in animal work, you will test whether this phenomenon can also be observed in healthy human cognition. - Your colleagues: You will become part of the PRECHRON project, funded by the ERC starting grant. You will work under the supervision of Dr. Miles Wischnewski and collaborate with fellow PhD's and postdocs of the lab. Also, you will be part of the Neuroplasticity, Synchrony, and Cognition group ( link ), part of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. As such, you will be part of a community of experts and work together with other PI's (e.g., Prof. Dr. Alexander Sack, Prof. Dr. Teresa Schuhmann, Dr. Sanne ten Oever, Dr. Inge Leunissen, Dr. Felix Duecker, and Dr. Jelena Trajkovic), Postdocs, and PhD's.
In the PRECHRON project, you will be part of a team that uses and develops applications of non-invasive brain stimulation (including TMS and tACS) combined with EEG to study human cognition. Current "closed-loop" implementation, where TMS is applied at specific oscillatory states, will be expanded and applied during cognitive testing. With this ...