Term Research Assistant
About The Position
The Term Research Assistant is a part of the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University and is a key individual contributor who will provide scientific support to leadership and is responsible for developing, maintaining, executing, and disseminating findings from research studies and projects. The Term Research Assistant will be working with the Vanderbilt Computational Memory Lab under the supervision of Dr. Sean Polyn. This position is a term role. About the Work Unit: The internationally renowned Department of Psychology houses several award-winning professors who are distinguished scholars in their respective fields and who are dedicated to providing world-class education and training to our undergraduate and graduate students. While our course curriculum encompasses all the sub-disciplines of Psychology, the research of our faculty centers around three major areas: Clinical Science, Cognition and Cognitive Neurosciences, and Neuroscience.
Requirements
- Candidates should hold a master’s degree in psychology or a related field.
- 1 year of experience with research in cognitive psychology, including experimental design
- Experience with Python Programming
- Basic data science and statistics
- Familiarity with experimental psychology literature, especially with regards to research on episodic and semantic memory.
Responsibilities
- Lab management
- Supervision of undergraduate trainees
- Assistance in development, running and analysis of human behavioral memory experiments
- Assistance in grant and manuscript preparation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
