Wanna do some great imaging science at Turku PET Centre in Finland? Why not join the PET Shop Boys and Girls at Emotion Lab and start working with us! We are now starting our ERC-funded flagship project on total-body PET imaging of the human emotion circuits and their disorders using the state-of-the-art Siemens Biograph Vision Quadra whole-body PET scanner. Our goal is to understand the regulation of human emotions from the perspective of integrated nervous system spanning the central-peripheral axis. Special focus is on the anxious phenotype and imaging of cerebral and cardiac function.
We are currently recruiting 1 X post-doctoral scientist with background in either 1) human PET imaging / neuroscience / psychology, 2) statistical analysis, signal processing and programming or 3) medical image processing. Starting date is flexible but preferably early in 2025. Please contact Prof. Lauri Nummenmaa (latanu@utu.fi) for further information.
Human Emotion Systems Laboratory focuses on mapping the neurochemical and functional mechanisms that support human emotions, as well as their dysfunction in different psychiatric and neurological disorders. Our international and interdisciplinary team consists of 15 scientists from various disciplines ranging from clinical medicine and engineering to bioinformatics and psychology.
Turku PET Centre is one of the world’s leading nuclear medicine imaging units, with strong experience in molecular, functional and structural neuroimaging. The imaging laboratory consists of one total-body PET scanner, PET/MRI scanner, 2 conventional PET/CT scanners, and high-resolution PET scanner (HRRT) for brain imaging. For preclinical imaging we have three small animal PET-CT scanners. Our state-of-the art radiochemistry laboratory operated 4 cyclotrons with 25 hot cells with automated synthesis equipment for tracer development and production, and is operating under GMP quality standards.
The project is funded by European Research Council Advanced Grant to Lauri Nummenmaa. This announcement was originally posted on Wed 21st 2024.
