📍 Location: Potsdam, Germany
🕒 Working Hours: 20 hours/week (50%)
💰 Salary: E13 TV-L
📄 Contract: Fixed-term for 4 years (under WissZeitVG)
🎓 Qualification Opportunity: PhD or Habilitation

The Chair of Medical Sociology and Psychobiology at the University of Potsdam is seeking an Academic Research Associate to contribute to cutting-edge translational health research focused on stress-related chronic diseases and personalised prevention and intervention strategies.

🔍 Key Responsibilities:
• Design and conduct research projects and publish empirical studies
• Analyse complex longitudinal and multimodal datasets
• Support grant applications and contribute to the strategic development of the research area
• Supervise students and early-career researchers
• Participate in interdisciplinary research at the interface of medicine, psychology, sports science, and health sciences

🧬 Research Focus:
• Stress-related chronic diseases (musculoskeletal, metabolic, and mental health conditions)
• Psychoneuroendocrinology and stress physiology
• Personalised diagnostics, risk prediction, and prevention
• Digital health technologies and translation into healthcare practice

✅ Required Profile:
• Master's degree (or equivalent) in Medicine, Psychology, Sport Science, or a related discipline
• Ideally, completed PhD
• Strong expertise in psychoneuroendocrinology and/or stress physiology
• Experience in data management and statistical analysis (e.g. R, Python, SPSS)
• Interest in interdisciplinary and translational research
• Excellent English language skills (written and spoken)
• High level of initiative, conceptual thinking, and motivation to develop innovative research projects

🎁 What the University Offers:
• Opportunity to pursue a PhD or Habilitation with dedicated research time (at least one-third of working hours)
• Innovative interdisciplinary research environment within the Berlin-Brandenburg health research ecosystem
• Collaborations with leading institutions including Charité, Hasso Plattner Institute, German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE), ETH Zurich, and Rochester Institute of Technology
• Opportunities for international laboratory rotations and networking
• Flexible working hours and partial remote work options
• 30 days annual leave plus additional leave on 24 and 31 December
• Public transport subsidy, pension scheme, annual bonus, and workplace health programmes
• Extensive professional development and networking opportunities

📅 Application Deadline: 30 June 2026
📌 Reference Number: 323/2026
📧 Applications should be submitted by email to rogovits@uni-potsdam.de (preferred) or by post to the University of Potsdam, Medical Sociology and Psychobiology, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam. Please quote reference number 323/2026 in your application.

🌍 An excellent opportunity for researchers interested in stress biology, digital health, personalised medicine, and interdisciplinary health research within a highly collaborative international network.