Salary: $74,692

Department: Psychiatry

Physical work location: 1399 Park Ave. New York, NY 10029

Name PI or Supervisor: Shawn Rhoads

Administrative Contact: Abigail Polanco, Abigail.polanco@mssm.edu

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

Postdoctoral Fellow-MSH-13400-375

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