01/23/2016
Drs. Jon Freeman and David Amodio are seeking a full-time lab manager and research technician to start in August or September 2016 for a two-year commitment. The position will be split half-time between Jon Freeman’s Social Cognitive & Neural Sciences Lab (http://psych.nyu.edu/freemanlab) and David Amodio’s Social Neuroscience Lab (http://www.amodiolab.org), located adjacently in the NYU Department of Psychology.
The Freeman lab studies mechanisms of split-second social perception, including topics such as social categorization and stereotyping, face processing and trait attribution, and the interplay of social cognition and visual perception. The Amodio lab studies the neural and psychological mechanisms of social cognition and self-regulation, particularly as they relate to social perception, intergroup bias, and behavior. Both labs use a variety of methods, including behavioral paradigms, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling.
The lab manager will work closely with Drs. Freeman and Amodio, and their respective lab groups, to coordinate and conduct research studies using a combination of behavioral and neural methods. He/she will also manage laboratory activities, such as planning research events and meetings, maintaining laboratory computers and equipment, maintaining lab websites, interviewing and supervising research assistants, managing grants, preparing stimuli, programming experimental tasks, processing and analyzing data, reviewing literature, and editing manuscripts. The lab manager will also have the opportunity to participate in the broader intellectual community in the NYU Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science.
The position is designed for an individual with a Bachelor's degree in psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cognitive science, or related fields. Strong technical skills are preferred, including competence in programming environments such as MATLAB, Python, and/or Javascript. Additional experience with fMRI data analysis packages (e.g., AFNI, SPM, BrainVoyager, FSL) is also helpful but not required. Previous experience conducting research in psychology/neuroscience is also desirable. More generally, we seek a candidate who is self-motivated, highly organized, and a good team player and who, ideally, seeks to eventually pursue a career in psychology/neuroscience.
The ideal candidate will make creative contributions to the labs’ research programs and, as such, have opportunities to co-author manuscripts resulting from the research. He/she will also have opportunities to help with the continued development of a data collection and analysis software package being used by the larger research community (http://www.mousetracker.org), and thus from time to time interact with and provide support to this community.
We will review applications beginning March 1, until the position is filled. Applicants should submit a resume/CV and a 1-page cover letter describing their qualifications for the position, relevant experience, and research/career interests, along with the names of 2-3 references that may be contacted for a recommendation. Please address applications to both Jon Freeman ([email protected]) and David Amodio ([email protected]).
