Postdoc in Social Cognitive Neuroscience & Modeling

Mount Sinai; United States; On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Mount Sinai Health System in New York invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to engage in projects on social cognitive neuroscience, including dyadic and multi-agent interactions, social learning, and belief inference.

Responsibilities include developing and running studies, building computational cognitive models, programming in Python, and analyzing behavioral and neural data, with aim to publish results.

Qualifications

• 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 above areas
• 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

Responsibilities

• Developing and running studies
• Developing computational cognitive models
• Programming in Python
• Running analyses on behavioral and/or neural data
• Writing results in publications

Skills

Python programming

Computational modeling

Neural data analysis

Communication skills

Education

PhD in Psychology or Neuroscience or related field

Tools

fMRI analysis tools

Bayesian inference

Job description

Mount Sinai Health System in New York invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to engage in projects on social cognitive neuroscience, including dyadic and multi-agent interactions, social learning, and belief inference.

Responsibilities include developing and running studies, building computational cognitive models, programming in Python, and analyzing behavioral and neural data, with aim to publish results.