PhD Studentship

Corehr; Dublin; On-site; EUR 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Trinity College Dublin is inviting applications to develop advanced neuroimaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in mid-life, asymptomatic individuals. The PhD student will design and perform analyses to evaluate established and novel markers and their relation to clinical features.

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team supervised by Professor Lorina Naci at the Global Brain Health Institute and TCIN in Dublin, with access to cutting-edge tools and international training

Responsibilities

• designing and performing all relevant analyses to assess biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in mid-life, asymptomatic individuals
• investigating interaction between neuroimaging biomarkers and clinical features, and predicting clinical decline from baseline measures

Job description

Trinity is Ireland’s leading university and is ranked 75thin the world (QS World University Rankings 2026). Founded in 1592, the University is steeped in history with a reputation for excellence in education, research, and innovation, which has been inspiring generations of thinkers for over 400 years. Thrive: Trinity College Dublin's Strategic Plan 2025 - 2030

Post Summary:

PhD applications are invited to develop advanced neuroimaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease in mid-life, asymptomatic individuals.

The PhD student’s role will include designing and performing all relevant analyses to assess (a) the performance of established and novel pre-clinical neuroimaging markers of AD in mid-life in persons at high- relative to low-risk, and (b) the interaction between changes in neuroimaging biomarkers with clinical features, as well as the prediction of clinical decline from the baseline measures.

The successful applicant will be part of an interdisciplinary team supervised by Professor Lorina Naci, and based at the Global Brain Health Institute, at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), in the heart of Dublin. [S]he will receive top-tier training at the School of Psychology and TCIN, in cutting-edge translational neuroscience tools/methods (3T, 7T MRI) and research, and have international training and networking opportunities, including labs 3 visits in other world-leading universities (Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge (UK), UCSF (USA), INSERM (France)], access to unique aging/dementia large datasets, and shared resources.

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