Postdoc in canine behavioral neuroscience
Alexandra Allison de Sousa
Job posting: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16417
Description: The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory of Dr. Erin Hecht to contribute to neuroimaging, behavioral, endocrine, and genomic analyses in domestic dogs. This research is non-invasive. The research will take place in the Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory directed by Dr. Hecht and located in the Peabody Museum on Harvard University’s Cambridge, Massachusetts campus. Broadly, the Evolutionary Neuroscience Laboratory studies how brains change in response to selection pressure on behavior, and how brains acquire heritable adaptations for complex, learned behaviors. The lab’s websites are: http://hechtlab.org/ and http://caninebrains.org There will be opportunities for cross-training and interaction with an interdisciplinary research team including neuroscientists, primatologists, geneticists, and animal behavior scientists. Additional projects and training opportunities can be tailored to suit the candidate’s goals and interests, and may include comparative human/nonhuman primate neuroimaging, neuroimaging and behavior studies with experimentally bred foxes, histological analyses of fixed brain tissue, and/or human neuroimaging, behavior and psychological assessments.
Salary Range: $67,600-$80,000
Basic Qualifications: A doctoral degree is required for this position. Desired qualifications include research in neuroscience, psychology, neuroimaging, histology, and/or animal behavior.
To apply: Please submit a letter of interest, an updated CV, and the names of three references. Evaluation will begin at the time the advertisement is placed and will continue until the position is filled.
Professor Erin Hecht