Postdoctoral Fellow

Location: St. Louis

Feb 11, 2026# Postdoctoral Fellow
* Washington University in St. Louis
* Saint Louis, MO, USA### Employer Washington University in St. Louis### Department Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences###

Job Description
** POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN AGING at
** Washington University in St. Louis, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, will be available as early as May 2026 with some flexibility in the appointment start date. Fellowships, sponsored by the National Institute on Aging, are for 1 to 3 years and are designed to train psychologists for academic and research careers in the psychology of aging. Our postdoctoral training program provides trainees the opportunity for high-quality mentored research, course work, seminars and workshops with experts in the areas of cognitive and brain changes in aging, personality and socio-emotional aging, lifespan development, and translational impact.

Fellows carry out their own research under the supervision of a faculty preceptor and a mentoring committee and have access to travel and training-related funds. See our  for specific current faculty interests. Prior training in aging is not required of applicants. Fellows must be citizens, noncitizen nationals, or permanent residents of the United States. Send a cover letter, statement of research interests and curriculum vitae, and have three letters of reference submitted, through  (position#JR92424).

Please also feel free to contact the program directors at dhead or jzacks. Initial review will begin immediately. The Aging Program and the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences seek and value diversity, which we define as individual differences that include age, physical ability, culture, ethnicity, sex, gender, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, and veteran status.### Accreditation

PCSAS-Accredited, APA-Accredited
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