Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroimaging

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neuroimaging

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Location: Boston, Massachusetts; other listings include Waltham, Cambridge, and surrounding areas.

Job Type: Regular, Full time;

Work Shift:

Day; FLSA Status:
Exempt. Date posted: 07/21/2025. This description reflects the role within the Sadhguru Center for a Conscious Planet (SCCP) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (a Harvard teaching hospital) and the broader Harvard Medical School system.

The Sadhguru Center is looking for a passionate and highly skilled researcher to join our diverse and thriving team. The scientist will have a Harvard Medical School post-doctoral fellow appointment and will work in a large interdisciplinary team in the environment of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School system. Projects focus on perioperative cognitive sciences and the effect of mind body interventions (yoga and meditation) on cognition, sleep and brain health.

The scientist is expected to contribute to all aspects of the projects and may develop their own research focus aligned with the center’s broader mission.

• Receive mentorship from SCCP’s senior faculty, Scientific Advisory Board members and collaborative network.
• Dedicate effort and use SCCP, BIDMC and HMS resources towards professional career development and potential transition to a faculty position at HMS under SCCP.
• Have access to a wide range of subject populations (clinical, healthy, meditators) to conduct robust studies on consciousness, cognition and wellbeing in various settings.
• Be part of the core team at the early stage of SCCP and contribute to the center’s direction and growth, especially in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging.
• Contribute to educational and outreach activities of SCCP and expand experience, expertise and network beyond academic research.
• Enhance mentorship skills by mentoring research assistants and student interns at SCCP.

• Required:
• PhD in related fields such as cognitive neuroscience or other relevant fields.
• Track record of experiment design, data collection, analysis, publication, and communicating scientific results.
• Verifiable programming skills in MATLAB, Python, R or similar language. Ability to program experiments in Psychotoolbox, Psychopy or similar stimulus presentation toolboxes for behavioral, fMRI and EEG studies is essential.
• Demonstrable clarity in communication.
• Ability to take initiative and work both individually and as part of collaborative teams.
• Ability to proactively seek out help for solving interdisciplinary problems.
• Encouraged:
• Familiarity with research in consciousness, yoga, meditation, mindfulness and other mind-body interventions.
• Experience with neuroimaging modalities such as MRI, fMRI, EEG, MEG and analyses of fMRI and M/EEG data.
• Clinical or theoretical research experience in areas such as sleep, stress, cognitive disorders.
• Experience with grant and research proposal writing.
• Presenting and interacting with researchers in broad multi-disciplinary groups.
• Experience mentoring research assistants and students.

• Abides by the institutional policies of BIDMC relating to health and safety, equality of opportunity and data storage and management.
• Actively pursues research under the supervision of a principal investigator while developing skills for independent work.
• Receives training in and performs duties contributing to the investigational work of the team including formulation of research questions and design, conduct of experiments, and evaluation of results.
• Prepares and publishes scientific manuscripts under direction of PI.
• Develops expertise in desired lab skills/informatics/physics/clinical research and develops independence as fellowship progresses.
• Doctoral degree required. 0-1 years related work experience required.
• Ability to produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases; experience reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing scientific literature.
• Excellent attention to detail and interpersonal, organizational, writing, and project management…