RA Position @ Yale Clinical and Affective Neuroscience lab
Kober, Hedy
We’re a growing lab with excited members, a few new grants, and lots of opportunities!
Responsibilities will include assisting in all stages of research in a lab that integrates clinical, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to study neural activity and neuroplasticity associated with craving, emotion regulation, substance use, cognitive treatment, and mindfulness meditation, including running clinical trials to test efficacy of cognitive and mindfulness-based interventions. The job includes recruitment and screening of healthy adults as well as those with psychopathology (esp. substance using; binge eating; obese); programming and editing of computerized tasks/online questionnaires/lab wiki; collection of self-report, behavioral, clinical, physiological, and neuroimaging data; data organization, cleaning, and analysis; administrative duties associated with daily lab functioning; opportunities to present at conferences and write papers will be commensurate with skills and experience. In our cooperative lab setting, responsibilities will include interfacing with other lab members as well as other research groups, and will therefore require excellent communication and interpersonal skills, a great attitude, and the ability to not only work in a team but also to take initiative and lead.
The right RA will be involved in several projects that differ in the skills that they require – no one is likely to have all these skills on the first day of the job, and in-depth ongoing training will be given by the PI and others in the lab.
Taken together, this position will likely be enjoyable as well as educational, and will serve as an ideal springboard for graduate school in psychology (experimental or clinical) or neuroscience.
Start date: June 15 is preferred (will consider later dates for the right candidate). Two-year commitment is required.
Required Background: Some research experience; BA or BS in Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science or a related field (strong applications from candidates with other backgrounds will be considered). Familiarity with Mac and PC platforms. Excellent organizational skills. Strong computer skills and some programming experience (MATLAB, python, or others).
Preferred Background: Psychological/human research experience in an emotion/clinical/cog neuro lab; Specifically, experimental design and programming, data collection and analysis. Neuroimaging analysis experience a big plus. Statistics experience also a big plus.
TO APPLY: Send CV and any questions to matthew...@yale.edu. Please include ‘CANLab RA Posting’ in the subject line.
Hedy Kober, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Kober, Hedy
Yale’s Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab (PI: Hedy Kober, PhD) is looking for 2 post-doctoral fellows to begin as early as Summer 2017 (start date is flexible for the right candidates). The lab conducts behavioral and neuroimaging studies in clinical & affective neuroscience, using a variety of analytic techniques. Two new grants focus on craving, self-control, and stress, with a focus on individuals with substance use disorders (addictions), using a variety of techniques including meta analyses of neuroimaging and behavioral data, fMRI, connectivity analyses, computational modeling, and machine learning. One project includes a close collaboration with Tor Wager’s lab at University of Colorado, Boulder. Other ongoing work includes studies on food choice and mindfulness meditation, and several randomized controlled trials testing the efficacy of novel interventions to improve eating, reduce smoking, etc.
A PhD in psychology, neuroscience, or related fields is required, along with strong computational/analytical skills. Interested applicants should contact me with a CV, a brief statement of interest, and names of 2-3 references. Please include “CANlab Post Doc position” in the title.