RESEARCH INTERN

The Jiang lab is looking for a full-time Post Baccalaureate Research Intern to assist our social and affective neuroscience research projects. Our current research projects mainly focus on determining causal neural circuits relevant to affective deficits and treatment effects by combining multimodal brain stimulation (transcranial magnetic stimulation [TMS], intracranial electrical stimulation) with multimodal recording (functional magnetic resonance imaging [fMRI], intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG), functional near-infrared spectroscopy [fNIRS]) in health population and patients with neuropsychiatric, neurological, and neurodevelopmental conditions. Join us as we scale up our efforts to better understand how to modulate human brain circuits and promote the development of novel treatments to improve mental illness!

Position Responsibilities

The Post Baccalaureate Research Intern will be responsible for several aspects of conducting experiments, collecting, managing, and analyzing data and performing operational duties associated with the laboratory.

Duties to include:

• Learn behavioral recording (e.g., eye-tracker), neuroimaging (e.g., fNIRS, fMRI), brain stimulation (e.g., TMS) skills.


• Assist with writing grants and manuscripts.


• Screen, recruit, and schedule neurodevelopmental / neurological / neuropsychiatric / healthy children / adults as research participants.


• Conduct audit to assess quality assurance.  Develop procedures for on-site data audits; participate in audits; design and generate reports for use in data audits; summarize results of audits and write reports.


• Arrange, prepare, and maintain laboratory equipment for experimental protocols.


• Track and perform data entry for reports.


• Analyze data, prepare abstracts and manuscripts for conferences and publications.

• Bachelor's degree in a field relevant to life science or medical research such as Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, electrical or biomedical engineering, or a related field.

• A minimum of six months related research experience in Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, or Computer Science.


• Experience with scripting/programming languages (preferable MATLAB and/or Python)


• Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills.


• Excellent organizational skills with careful attention to detail.


• Demonstrated ability to acquire new skills quickly.

• Prior experience in clinical populations with neurodevelopmental / neurological / neuropsychiatric conditions and/or pediatric population.


• Prior experience in performing brain imaging (e.g., fMRI / iEEG) design, collection, and / or analyses. 


• Prior experience or demonstrated coursework in data analysis with Python, R, MATLAB, and / or UNIX shell preferred.

Position and Application details:

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days and may be removed from posting and filled any time after the original posting period has ended.

Successful candidates will be required to self-disclose any conviction history and will be subject to a criminal background check and credential/education verification. Up to 5 professional references will be requested at a later step in the recruitment process.

For additional questions, please contact [email protected].

This position is not eligible for University sponsorship for employment authorization.

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