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Assistant Professor of Psychology – Lifespan Human Development/Aging/Gerontology   Position Summary: Florida Atlantic University is seeking an Assistant Professor of Psychology – Lifespan Human Development/Aging/Gerontology- Davie, FL.   The Department of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University invites applications from outstanding candidates at the Assistant Professor level for a tenure-track position in lifespan human development/aging/gerontology to begin in Fall 2023. The ideal candidate will establish an externally funded research program that involves cutting-edge research using advanced statistical modeling to improve our understanding of the developmental processes/mechanisms involved in senescence. The position would intersect with the Department of Psychology strengths in developmental, cognitive, neurobehavioral, and/or social psychology. The Department of Psychology is committed to building a culturally diverse educational environment. We are seeking...

The Brain Health Institute (BHI; brainhealthinstitute.rutgers.edu ) and Rutgers Addiction Research Center (RARC; addiction.rutgers.edu ) are excited to announce a major hiring initiative. We are recruiting FOUR tenured or tenure track faculty members at the Assistant/Associate/Professor level across our four research domains: Basic Science ; Epidemiology, Etiology, & Prevention ; Treatment & Recovery ; and Public Policy . Candidates for senior faculty positions will be considered for Associate Director roles, with the opportunity to lead the growth of targeted research areas within the RARC. The RARC, an initiative of the BHI, is a new translational research center that brings together researchers from across all Rutgers campuses, medical schools, and health systems for collaborative, interdisciplinary work focused on tackling addiction. With over 150 faculty already working across the domains of Basic Science; Epidemiology, Etiology, & Prevention;...

Postdoctoral research fellowships are available for MDs and PhDs in behavioral and psychological aspects of cardiovascular health. The program focuses on four areas: health behavior change, psychophysiology, research methods and statistics, and health disparities. Now in its 40th year, the program is a mentor-based model that includes team-based collaborative mentoring, multidisciplinary training and research, and individualized didactics and workshops, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as practical training in grant writing, research ethics, and career development.  Applications are being accepted for appointments to begin in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. Qualifications: PhD in Psychology, Epidemiology, or related health/behavioral science discipline or MD (including 3rd or 4th year residents) Commitment to a clinical science career Strong candidates have a promising record and commitment to cardiovascular behavioral medicine research Interest...

We are seeking Post-Doctoral Fellows for a major NIA funded longitudinal study of cognitive and brain aging in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).  The UCSD Department of Psychiatry is one of the top research departments in the United States. The post-doctoral fellows work primarily on the Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA); the PIs are Drs. William Kremen, Carol Franz, and Michael Lyons. VETSA constitutes a rich interdisciplinary study that can address a wide variety of important research questions elucidating risk and protective factors for cognitive and brain aging as well as life course development from over 1600 subjects. Three waves of in-depth cognitive, psychosocial and health, biomarker, GWAS, and MRI data in twins are completed. Wave 4 data collection started in 2020.  The study has been ongoing since 2002.  The fellowship also includes opportunities to participate in several international consortia, including CHARGE,...

Description: The Department of Psychology at Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York (SUNY) system is seeking multiple exceptional candidates for Assistant and Associate Professor positions (tenure-track and tenured) to begin Fall 2023 as part of a newly funded University research initiative in the Neuroscience of Aging . The mission of the cluster hiring in the Neuroscience of Aging is to develop an internationally recognized translational program to understand the aging brain and age-related changes in behavior. The goal is to become a hub in developing and implementing the most state-of-the-art techniques for the study and treatment of brain disorders associated with normal and pathological aging. Assistant and Associate/Assistant Professors of Behavioral Neuroscience: We are interested in candidates who use animal models to determine genetic, cellular/molecular, and/or neuroanatomical bases underlying neural network dysfunction...