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Talent pathway

Bring curiosity to brain research with real-world relevance.

The Clinical Brain Lab welcomes enquiries about PhD and graduate studies from people interested in exploration and discovery, while staying grounded in rigorous brain research that can translate to clinical, educational, community, or other applied settings.

Graduate Studies

We are not advertising full-time research assistant or postdoctoral openings at the moment. Enquiries about PhD and graduate studies are welcome if the applicant's interests connect clearly with the lab's current research themes and methods.

Strong candidates usually show disciplined learning, clear writing, care for participants and teammates, and interest in rigorous, reproducible analysis.

Clinically grounded questions

Interest in clinical brain research that can connect mechanisms to lived outcomes.

Method breadth

Comfort working across behavioural, cognitive, neuropsychological, MRI/fMRI, EEG, fNIRS, TMS, tDCS, or computational approaches.

Participant care

Respect for participants, families, schools, clinics, and community partners who make the science possible.

Warm precision

Desire to learn with talented peers in a lab culture that values precision, warmth, and follow-through.

Research Fit

We are interested in people who can bring a clear question, a willingness to learn across methods, and an appetite for work that matters beyond the lab. Your question might begin with cognition, learning, ageing, emotion, the cerebellum, rehabilitation, or brain stimulation; the important part is whether it can be shaped into careful, testable research with a path toward clinical or real-world relevance.

Before writing, review the lab's current themes, projects, and publications. The strongest notes connect your skills and questions to work already underway.

Graduate research

PhD Applicants

Develop a research direction that connects your interests to ongoing lab themes, methods, and outputs in clinical cognitive neuroscience, learning, ageing, cerebellum, or socioaffective neuroscience.

Future openings

Research roles

Research assistant, postdoctoral, research fellow, and internship roles are advertised separately when funded positions are available.

Interdisciplinary Brain Science at NTU

NTU is a strong home for ambitious researchers who want to build rigorous science across disciplinary boundaries. Graduate studies can draw on a research-intensive environment spanning psychology, neuroscience, medicine, education, engineering, social sciences, and translational research.

Through the Cognitive Neuroimaging Centre (CoNiC), graduate researchers can work with advanced neuroimaging and neuromodulation facilities, including MRI, EEG, MEG, fNIRS, TMS, and tDCS. This ecosystem is well suited for people who want deep methodological training while developing research with clinical, educational, or community impact.

Application and scholarship routes

Get in touch

Please include a brief introduction to your academic and research background, the pathway you are considering, the lab research themes that interest you, and what you hope to learn or contribute. Attach an updated CV with your enquiry.

Email annabelchen@ntu.edu.sg