Postdoctoral Position at Boston/Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School
The GaabLab (gaablab.com)<gaablab.com> at the Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School invites applications for a post-doctoral associate position in the area of developmental cognitive neuroscience/pediatric (f)MRI. The candidate will be expected to oversee the analysis of pediatric and infant (f)MRI experiments, analyze behavioral and (f)MRI data, develop new analysis tools, prepare manuscripts for publication, and participate in conferences. The current projects in the lab aim to characterize trajectories of early structural, functional and metabolic brain development in infants and young children. Participant populations include infants/young children who grow up in adverse environments, young children exposed to alcohol in uterus or children with a genetic or behavioral risk to develop language-based learning disabilities. The successful applicant should have a doctoral degree in a field related to developmental cognitive neuroscience (e.g., cognitive neuroscience, neuroscience, psychology, developmental psychology, medicine) or a background in electrical engineering, biomedical engineering or computer science. The successful applicant must possess excellent English verbal and written communication skills. Applicants are expected to have a very strong research background in the design and analysis of functional brain-imaging experiments. Experience with (f)MRI analyses programs (e.g., SPM, FSL, Freesurfer, AFNI) a must. Programming skills (MATLAB, C++; Python) are desirable and experience with MVPA or connectivity analyses a plus. Experience with the analysis of pediatric neuroimaging data sets and language and reading research are useful. Approximate start date is summer/ fall 2017. Successful applicants will be appointed at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. For consideration please send a statement of interest, a CV and a list of three potential referees via email to Nadine Gaab, PhD (nadine.gaab@childrens.harvard.edumailto:nadine.gaab@childrens.harvard.edu). The search will continue until the position is filled.
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" A. Einstein (1879-1955)
Nadine Gaab, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatrics Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School Department of Medicine/Division of Developmental Medicine Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience Mail stop code: BCH3178 1 Autumn Street (Office 643); Boston, MA 02115 nadine.gaab@childrens.harvard.edumailto:nadine.gaab@childrens.harvard.edu phone: 857-218-3021 www.gaablab.comhttp://www.gaablab.com/ Twitter: Nadine Gaab (@GaabLab)