Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-375

Department: Psychiatry Physical work location: 1399 Park Ave. New York, NY 10029 Name PI or Supervisor: Shawn Rhoads Web link to Lab: https://sinclaboratory.com Web link to Department: https://icahn.mssm.edu/research/center-for-computational-psychiatry Administrative Contact: Abigail Polanco, Abigail.polanco@mssm.edu Responsibilities Details of Research Project: The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will participate in various projects, including but not limited to the following topics: * dyadic and multi-agent interactions * social learning and decision-making * social belief inference * affective experiences * socioemotional well-being Technical Duties: (include any protocols) Developing and running studies * Developing computational cognitive models * Programming in Python * Running analyses on behavioral and/or neural data * Writing results in publications Educational and other Requirements for the position: PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Electrical or Biomedical Engineering, or other related fields * Evidence of high-impact peer-reviewed publications in any of the areas above * Organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills * Computational skills (e.g., prior coursework in mathematics, programming in Python, computational modeling) * Strong interests in social computational neuroscience, behavioral economics, and/or computational psychiatry Experience Required: Experience with neural data collection and/or analysis (e.g., fMRI, intracranial EEG) * Experience with computational modeling (e.g., Bayesian inference, reinforcement learning) * Experience with large-online and/or in-person behavioral data collection * Computer science/IT skills Goals/Outcomes of the Research Project: Collecting data for ongoing funded projects (e.g., DP5) * Pilot data for lab grants (e.g., R01, R21) * For completed studies, academic research papers reporting the findings SPOC-UAW Local 4100 at Icahn School of Medicine (Post Docs), 859 - Psychiatry - ISM, Icahn School of Medicine

Full time · Day shift