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Logo of EURAXESS Job offer AcademicTransfer - JOB - Netherlands - Posted on: 25 August 2026 Page contents 25 Aug 2026 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) Research Field Medical sciences » Medicine Psychological sciences » Psychology Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Application Deadline 6 Sep 2026 - 21:59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Not Applicable Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description You will be a key part of the project team that will run the Stress in Action cohort enrichment study that starts in 2026. The team will collect active and passive measures, including sensor data from smartphones, wearables, and ecological momentary assessment capturing the affective, cognitive, physiological, and behavioural components of the stress response in people's natural environments. This work will generate unique large-scale datasets on daily life stress and its health impacts. Your specific focus will be developing and implementing data processing pipelines for these large-scale multimodal datasets to enable scientific discovery. You will also contribute to team management and further develop standard operating procedures for data governance and data collection, covering topics such as study logistics, data privacy, and cross-cohort data linkage. Advancing the careers of early-career researchers is one of the missions of the Stress in Action consortium, and this position offers you ample opportunity to engage in scientific endeavours that set you up for an academic career. From the outset, you will be able to run analyses and write papers leveraging the existing lab-based and ambulatory datasets from our Stress in Action wearable validation pipeline. Subsequently, you will be able to use the Stress in Action cohort enrich...