Trauma & Sleep Psychophysiology Research Associate

NCIRE - The Northern California Institute for Research and Education; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 35 000 - 56 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

NCIRE - The Northern California Institute for Research and Education, in partnership with SFVAHCS and UCSF, seeks a Staff Research Associate II to support trauma- and stressor-related disorder studies in Veterans. The role blends research and administrative duties, focusing on clinical coordination and psychophysiology data collection.

Ideal candidates have research experience, interest in PTSD and sleep, and comfort working with Veterans.

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; advanced degrees welcome.
• 2–3 years experience in research or clinical trials, preferably mental health.
• Strong organization, detail orientation, and multitasking ability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Interest in trauma, PTSD, fear learning, psychophysiology, and sleep processes.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate augmented psychotherapy trials combining PTSD treatments with mechanism-targeted medications.
• Administer and analyze remote psychophysiological fear-conditioning tasks.
• Set up and troubleshoot psychophysiological recording sessions (Biopac, LSL pipelines).
• Acquire, process, and organize multimodal psychophysiological data (EDA, EMG, HR/HRV, facial coding, remote PPG).
• Conduct clinical interviews and self-report measures; assist with sleep data (actigraphy, EEG).
• Manage data (REDCap, spreadsheets) and perform basic analyses; support clinical assessments when applicable.
• Coordinate regulatory documents with PI and staff; track enrollment and milestones; prepare reports.

Conhecimentos

Organizational skills

Written & verbal communication

Clinical trial coordination

Psychophysiology data collection

Data analysis (MATLAB, Python, R)

Trauma/PTSD research interest

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, Biology, Public Health, Social Work, or related field

Ferramentas

Biopac

Lab Streaming Layer (LSL)

MATLAB

Python

R

Descrição da oferta de emprego

NCIRE - The Northern California Institute for Research and Education, in partnership with SFVAHCS and UCSF, seeks a Staff Research Associate II to support trauma- and stressor-related disorder studies in Veterans. The role blends research and administrative duties, focusing on clinical coordination and psychophysiology data collection.

Ideal candidates have research experience, interest in PTSD and sleep, and comfort working with Veterans.