The Child Development Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park, (http://www.cdl.umd.edu) is searching for a full-time research assistant to work on the national Healthy Brain and Cognitive Development (HBCD) study. Individuals should have solid math skills and knowledge of programming particularly MATLAB and Python. This position is ideal for someone interested in pursuing developmental cognitive neuroscience and/or learning about using neuroscientific methods with infants and toddlers. Research assistants facilitate the acquisition, preprocessing and analysis of EEG data from 26 sites around the country.
The HBCD study is recruiting women during pregnancy and following their infants through the first five years of their lives. https://heal.nih.gov/research/infants-and-children/healthy-brain. There are 26 sites across the United States and all sites will be acquiring EEG from infants and young children for the duration of the project. The research assistant will work with fellows and scientists from the different sites on issues of EEG signal processing, and EEG quality control. The work will be supervised by Dr. Nathan Fox in the Child Development Laboratory. This position begins in Spring/Summer of 2025.
Required education: Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Computer Science, Human Development, or Cognitive or Affective Neuroscience. The job is available beginning Spring 2025 and requires a two-year commitment. Interested individuals should send a cover letter, CV and the names and email addresses of three references to Nathan Fox () and Jamie Listokin ().
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