Postdoctoral Fellow

Lab Name
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Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab
Supervisor Name
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Laurie Cutting
Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental neuroscience at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education. Individuals will be mentored by Laurie Cutting and have the opportunity to be mentored by an interdisciplinary mentorship team formed from Vanderbilt investigators studying the neuroscience of child development.

Individuals will have the opportunity to work on several large NIH-funded projects, including the Healthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study, as well as other NIH-funded longitudinal neuroimaging studies focused on academic, cognitive, behavioral outcomes in early childhood development (starting at perinatal period) through elementary school. Research opportunities will include analysis and writing manuscripts using already collected multimodal MRI datasets, analysis of fNIRS data, travel and conference presentations, and support for writing mentored grant proposals.

Ideal candidates should be highly motivated to publish first-author papers and present at conferences, and should possess a background in advanced statistics, strong experimental and scientific writing skills, ability to work in a team environment, and be self-motivated.

Experience working with children in a research setting is also desired. Additional desired strengths include competence in MRI and/or EEG and/or fNIRS data acquisition/analysis and/or assessment training, including programming skills (e.g., Matlab, R, and/or Python) and experience with multimodal neuroimaging (DWI, fMRI, and/or EEG) analysis.

Laurie Cutting is the director of the Education and Brain Sciences Research Lab at Vanderbilt University.