Lets shape the future University of Antwerp The University of Antwerp is a dynamic, forward thinking, European university. We offer an innovative academic education to more than 20,000 students, conduct pioneering scientific research, and play an important service providing role in society. We are one of the largest, most international, and most innovative employers in the region. With more than 6,000 employees from 100 different countries, we are helping to build tomorrow''s world every day. Through top scientific research, we push back boundaries and set a course for the future a future that you can help to shape. The Department of CAPRI (Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute) in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences is looking for a full time (100%) doctoral scholarship holder in the field of neuromodulation by electroconvulsive therapy in clinical psychiatry. Position You will work actively on the preparation and defence of a PhD on electroconvulsive therapy for patients with depressive disorders. The PhD trajectory consists of 2 main assignments: i) processing and analyzing existing clinical and biological data for scientific dissemination Your thesis will consist of at least 3 scientific articles (1 meta analysis and 2 original research papers) on the role of a broad scala of clinical and biological in the prediction of ECT outcome for patients with depression. The original research data have been collected within the framework of 2 clinical trials on electroconvulsive therapy for patients with depression ( BIOMAPD study & PRASED study ). ii) study coordinator of current and future clinical trials in neuromodulation You will actively contribute to this and/or other ongoing trials in neuromodulation at our site. As study coordinator, your responsibility is to coordinate every phase of the clinical trial process from participant recruitment to data preprocessing. You will mainly operate from SINAPS (Scientific Initiative for Neuropsychiatric and Psychopharmacologic Studies), a collaboration between the Collaborative Antwerp Psychiatric Research Institute (CAPRI) of the University of Antwerp and the University Psychiatric Centre Duffel, and as such be based at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel. As a SINAPS team member, you are required to collegially contribute to all projects of our research group within your field of expertise and carry out some teaching and research support tasks for CAPRI when opportune. Profile You hold a masters degree in Medicine, Biomedical Sciences, Psychology, or related in the field of neuroscience or you will have obtained it by the time you start work. As manager of your project and thesis, you are a sufficiently independent researcher that functions optimally in a close knit team. You are socially apt to interact with psychiatric patients with care and integrate fluently in a non hierarchical operational team. You demonstrate good knowledge in statistics and writing skills. Exp