Postdoctoral Scholar

Department: SoC Comm Sciences & Disorders
Salary/Grade: RES/
Job Summary

The Neurodevelopmental Diversity Laboratory (PI: Molly Losh) at Northwestern University (http://ndl.northwestern.edu) is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to join our research team. The lab’s projects focus on understanding language-related features of autism, and studying how autism-related traits can express in the general population and across related genetic conditions, to help us to understand gene-brain-behavior connections. This postdoc will work on research projects across several NIH-funded research projects, focused on autism and genetically related phenotypes such as fragile X syndrome, the FMR1 premutation, and the broad autism phenotype. The successful applicant will also have the opportunity to develop and pursue an independent research program through grant applications, as well as to participate in a leadership role coordinating research activities and supervising team members.

Specific Responsibilities:

• To develop new ideas, research methodologies, and analytic approaches to the lab’s research programs.
• To conduct experiments and analyses on linguistic, cognitive, neurophysiological and clinical properties of autism and FMR1-mutation conditions
• To help write grants and compete for funding
• To supervise students and research staff working in the lab
• To help write and contribute to publications resulting from research done in the lab
• To assist project management of NIH grants

Minimum Qualifications: (education, experience, and any other certifications or clearances)

• PhD in communication sciences and disorders, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, computer science, or a related field.
• Interest in research on autism and/or fragile X syndrome
• Evidence of first-author peer-reviewed publications.

Minimum Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities.)

• Must have strong oral and written communication and statistical analytic skills.

Preferred Qualifications: (Education and experience)

• Research and clinical training related to autism or other neurodevelopmental conditions

Preferred Competencies: (Skills, knowledge, and abilities)

• Experience in language-related research and evidence of project development.
• Skillsets on computational, AI (broadly defined), and data science approaches are an advantage.
• Excellent oral communication and writing skills.

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