PhD in Social/Health Sciences

Join the Center for Clinical Psychiatry (CCliPs) and the Center for Contextual Psychiatry (CCP) at KU Leuven as a PhD student in the Department of Neurosciences within the School of Medicine in Leuven, Belgium./nYou will be part of the Methusalem program developing new interventions for negative symptoms of psychosis, and will set up a longitudinal study examining the role of social factors in the emergence and persistence of amotivation in young people with early psychosis. The project uses Virtual Reality, epidemiology, experience sampling, and experimental tasks (including approach-avoidance measures and manipulation of fear and reward learning). The position involves collaboration with a second PhD student, other PhD students, research assistants, and a dynamic interdisciplinary team.