Stress, attachment, and resilience across mice and humans

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University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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The successful candidate will be embedded in two internationally recognized research groups at KU Leuven, providing a unique interdisciplinary training environment at the interface of clinical psychology, developmental science, and behavioural neuroscience. Learn2Trust Lab – Research Unit Clinical Psychology The candidate will be affiliated with the Learn2Trust Lab, part of the Research Unit Clinical Psychology within the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at KU Leuven. The Learn2Trust Lab investigates the developmental and learning mechanisms underlying attachment, trust, resilience, and mental health across the lifespan. Combining experimental, longitudinal, clinical, and intervention research, the lab aims to bridge fundamental attachment science with applications that improve the well-being of children, adolescents, adults, and families. The research team has extensive expertise in attachment theory, emotion regulation, family processes, psychotherapy, developmental psychopathology, and translational research, and collaborates with leading international researchers and clinical partners. Laboratory of Biological Psychology (LBP) The candidate will also become a member of the Laboratory of Biological Psychology (LBP), one of KU Leuven's leading centres for behavioural neuroscience. LBP investigates the biological mechanisms underlying cognition, emotion, learning, memory, and behaviour through state-of-the-art animal and human research. The laboratory offers outstanding expertise and infrastructure for behavioural phenotyping, genetics, electrophysiology, and translational neuroscience, with a strong focus on mouse models that are closely linked to human psychological research. The candidate will work within the longstanding collaboration between the research groups of Prof. Rudi D'Hooge and Prof. Guy Bosmans, contributing to innovative research that integrates behavioural neuroscience with attachment and resilience research. An Interdisciplinary PhD Experience This PhD offers a genuinely interdisciplinary research environment. The candidate will have a workplace in both laboratories, participate in the scientific activities of both research groups, and receive supervision from researchers with complementary expertise in attachment, developmental psychology, behavioural neuroscience, and experimental animal research. This unique dual affiliation provides exceptional opportunities to develop a broad methodological skill set, collaborate across disciplines, and contribute to cutting-edge translational research spanning basic neuroscience and clinical psychology.

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