The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is offering a Research Assistant position within the BIBALANCE project, recently funded by the European Research Council (ERC). The project aims to investigate the impact of early bilingualism on the brain’s resilience to dyslexia. The research involves acquiring behavioural, MEG, and MRI data from young Basque-Spanish bilingual children (aged 5–12) with or without a familial risk of dyslexia.

Job description:

Coordinate participant recruitment through outreach activities in relevant educational and clinical institutions
Collaborate on the finalization and implementation of experimental designs
Collect behavioural and neuroimaging data from bilingual children
Preprocess both neuroimaging and behavioural data
Participate in regular scientific meetings of the research group
Contribute to the dissemination of research findings to the general public