Job Description

Required Qualifications:

• PhD in a physical or biomedical field (including neuroscience, psychology, biomedical engineering, or the equivalent)
• Strong math and programming backgrounds capable of data analysis
• Experience with handling neurophysiological data
• Experience with model fitting to behavioral and neurophysiological data

• Direct experience with experiments across species
• Knowledge and experience with computational psychiatry questions and models

Job Duties:


100% - Research
Work will provide data curation and initial analyses for our P50 project, particularly human behavioral, fMRI, and EEG data. Work will include model fitting to data collected from a variety of sources.

Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. It is an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer science, engineering, linguistics, mathematics, medicine and allied disciplines, philosophy, physics, and psychology.

The Department of Neuroscience is committed to providing excellence in research, education, and public service. The Department of Neuroscience is part of the University of Minnesota's Medical School.

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