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We are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow for the NIA-funded Vietnam Era Twin Study of Aging (VETSA) at the University of California San Diego in the Department of Psychiatry. The UCSD Department of Psychiatry is one of the top Psychiatry departments in the country. The VETSA comprises a set of longitudinal studies focused on behavior genetics of cognitive and brain aging, as well and risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The position is for an initial 2-year fellowship with the possibility to extend contingent on funding. The VETSA has been funded continuously since 2002 and constitutes a rich 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. In-depth cognitive, psychosocial and health, biomarker, GWAS, and air pollution exposure data have been collected in over 1600 participants across 4 waves with multi-modal neuroimaging acquired on...