The job provides support for scientific research projects focused on neurocognitive aspects of substances of abuse and of psychiatric disorders.
Requirements
- Performs a variety of analyses of neuroimaging (functional and structural MRI, high-density EEG) data as part of psychiatric and related fields research program.
- Assists with study design, implementation, and data acquisition, including cognitive task programming, scoring, coordination of research participant study visits.
- Provides data management, optimizes processing pipelines, learns new analysis techniques or software packages as they become available.
- Knowledge of research technique and methods in relevant scientific field.
- Two years of relevant research experience.
- Experience gained in school counts towards this qualification.
Responsibilities
- Performs a variety of analyses of neuroimaging (functional and structural MRI, high-density EEG) data as part of psychiatric and related fields research program.
- Assists with study design, implementation, and data acquisition, including cognitive task programming, scoring, coordination of research participant study visits.
- Provides data management, optimizes processing pipelines, learns new analysis techniques or software packages as they become available.
- Assists with administrative tasks related to studies.
- Provides training and support in these techniques for other staff and students.
- Collects and enters data.
- Assists in analysis of data and with preparation of reports, manuscripts and other documents.
Other
- Ensures compliance of research activities with institutional, state, and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives and mandates.
- Complies with institution, state and federal regulatory policies, procedures, directives, and mandates.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines.
- Work both independently and as a team member.
