Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Purpose

The postdoctoral fellow will coordinate and aid in the collection and dissemination of a project aimed at understanding the behavioral and neural basis of socioemotional processing. The project involves neuroimaging, neuropsychological and personality assessment, and linguistic analysis.

Job Details

• Job Posting
  
  Title:
  
  Postdoctoral Fellow
• Hiring Department:
  Department of Psychology
• Position Open To:
  All Applicants
• Weekly Scheduled
  
  Hours:
  
  40
• FLSA Status:
  Exempt
• Earliest
  
  Start Date:
  
  Aug 01, 2022
• Position Duration:
  Expected to Continue Until Aug 31, 2023
• Location:
  
  UT MAIN CAMPUS

Responsibilities

• Recruitment and scheduling of adult subjects from the community for a multisession study
• Collect and analyze behavioral and neuroimaging data
• Prepare manuscripts of the project results for peer‑reviewed publication outlets
• Coordination of project logistics (e.g., IRB, study records and manuals, processing pipeline, pre‑registration, etc.)

Required Qualifications

• PhD in psychology, neuroscience or related field (PhD must have been received no more than 3 years prior to start date).
• Previous research experiences using behavioral tasks and fMRI approaches.
• Strong record of peer‑reviewed publications.

Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preference for previous research experience working with adult participants from a broad community.
• Knowledge of FSL, Psychopy, data scraping.

Salary

$50,000 (annual)

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions.
• Climbing of stairs.
• Lifting and moving.
• Other:
  Working MRI facility, working outside of typical business hours.

Work Shift

• Work schedule may require work outside of typical business hours.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV
• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor
• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers

You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi‑select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.

Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers

As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log‑in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application.

The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility

Please make sure you meet all the required qualifications and you can perform all of the essential functions with or without a reasonable accommodation.

Retirement Plan Eligibility

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead of TRS, subject to the position being 40 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background

Checks

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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