Karen-Inge Karstoft

The PhD student will join a project on individual differences in face recognition at the Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen . The research examines why face-recognition ability varies across a large, representative sample of the Danish population, and how those differences relate to other cognitive measures collected through questionnaires and Danish public registry data. The PhD project will be embedded in the broader project Exploring the bases of individual differences in face recognition , which is funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark . The specific PhD work focuses on relating variability in face recognition to measures and indicators of cognitive abilities, using the framework of the overall project while developing an individual research plan. The project is headed by Professor Randi Starrfelt and carried out in collaboration with Professor Karen-Inge Karstoft and Professor Birgitte Fagerlund . The position is based in the Copenhagen Neuropsychology Lab , part of the Section for Cognition and Neuropsychology . The successful candidate is expected to work closely with a multidisciplinary team spanning psychological epidemiology, cognitive neuropsychology, and neuropsychiatry, and to be present in the lab on a daily basis. The wider research environment offers doctoral training through the Faculty of Social Sciences, including research networks, PhD courses, teaching, and knowledge dissemination. The scholarship is part of a full-time three-year PhD study within the 5+3 programme. The project is designed around population-based face-recognition research and registry-linked cognitive data, with the PhD student contributing to analyses that connect face recognition with broader cognitive functioning in the Danish context.