Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-375
Mount Sinai Health System•New York, NY
•Onsite
About The Position
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will participate in various projects focusing on dyadic and multi-agent interactions, social learning and decision-making, social belief inference, affective experiences, and socioemotional well-being. The role involves developing and running studies, creating computational cognitive models, programming in Python, analyzing behavioral and/or neural data, and writing publications.
Requirements
- PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Electrical or Biomedical Engineering, or other related fields
- Evidence of high-impact peer-reviewed publications in any of the areas above
- Organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills
- Computational skills (e.g., prior coursework in mathematics, programming in Python, computational modeling)
- Strong interests in social computational neuroscience, behavioral economics, and/or computational psychiatry
Nice To Haves
- Experience with neural data collection and/or analysis (e.g., fMRI, intracranial EEG)
- Experience with computational modeling (e.g., Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning)
- Experience with large-online and/or in-person behavioral data collection
- Computer science/IT skills
Responsibilities
- Developing and running studies
- Developing computational cognitive models
- Programming in Python
- Running analyses on behavioral and/or neural data
- Writing results in publications
- Collecting data for ongoing funded projects (e.g., DP5)
- Collecting pilot data for lab grants (e.g., R01, R21)
- Reporting findings in academic research papers for completed studies
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
