Post Doctoral Scholar

Post Doctoral Scholar

The Opportunity:

University of Central Florida (UCF) invites applications for one two-year Postdoctoral Research Scholar position at the HARP Lab (Human Factors, AI, Risk, and Privacy Lab). The candidate will work with Dr. Grace Fox and members of her interdisciplinary team at UCF and collaborate with academic partners within UCF and internationally. The candidate will work on several collaborative projects and funding proposals related to the research areas of focus at the HARP lab including cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, risk, trust, and human behavior.

The successful candidate will collaborate with faculty, graduate students, and external partners.

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include designing and conducting empirical behavioral research using mixed methods, qualitative and quantitative research designs including interviews, focus groups, surveys, and experiments, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, publishing in leading conferences and journals across various disciplines, contributing to grant proposal development; mentoring graduate and undergraduate researchers.

The candidate will work with Dr. Fox and her team to manage project milestones, participate in team meetings, lead and contribute to the dissemination of findings across several projects in collaboration with graduate students, and faculty collaborators in UCF and internationally. The candidate must have excellent interpersonal, writing, and research skills, initiative, strong time management and organizational skills, and the ability to prioritize and meet deadlines and work independently and as a research team member.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A Ph.D. degree from an accredited educational institution in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Psychology, Human Factors, Human-Computer Interaction, Statistics Data Science, or a related discipline is required.
• The candidate must have experience conducting and publishing research in one or more areas related to privacy and cybersecurity from a behavioral perspective.
• Experience designing and leading quantitative human factors studies.
• Record of publishing in well regarded journals/conferences within their field of study.
• Strong experience in various advanced statistical methods (e.g., HLM, SEM, non-linear dynamical systems).
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• The candidates should have future goals of publishing research.
• Prior experience in designing and conducting research experiments is highly desired.
• Experience working on funded projects and proposals.
• Strong Programming skills (e.g., R, Python, MATLAB) are a plus.

Additional Application Materials

Required:

UCF requires all applications and supporting documents to be submitted electronically through the Human Resources employment opportunities website, https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). In addition to the online application, interested candidates should upload the following:

• A curriculum vitae.

NOTE:

Please have all documents ready when applying so they can be simultaneously uploaded. Once the online submission process is finalized, the system does not allow applicants to submit additional documents later.

The selected candidate will be required to submit official transcripts (and, as applicable, U.S. degree equivalency evaluations) documenting the conferral of their qualifying academic credentials.

Questions regarding this search should be directed to:
Dr Grace Fox

Special Instructions to the Applicants:

All applicants must be authorized to work for any U.S. employer. H-1B visa sponsorship is not available for this position, and the university cannot accommodate H-1B transfers or employment-based visa processing for individuals currently sponsored by another employer.

Job Close Date: 09/14/26