Research Assistant Position

New York, NY     ·     Full time

The Laboratory for Computational Psychiatry and Translational Neuroscience at Columbia University (PI: Kyo Iigaya. https://www.iigayalab.com) is looking for a motivated, well-organized, research assistant. The application should be submitted through this website.

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• The ideal candidate will develop and perform online (e.g., Amazon M-Turk) and in-person (e.g., fMRI) studies with human volunteers.
• We are particularly interested in a well-organized individual who has excellent programming skills.

Duties/Responsibilities include:

• developing and performing online experiments (e.g., Amazon M-Turk).
• developing and performing fMRI experiments with human participants (including recruiting and interviewing participants).
• developing and maintaining research computing platforms and data servers.
• recruiting and interviewing participants.
• analyzing data.
• Other lab-related administrations (e.g., assisting grants, IRB, hiring)

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Qualifications:

• completed undergraduate degree in computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, and related fields
• excellent programming and data analysis skills with extensive experience in python, Matlab, javascript, and shell.
• familiarity or experience with scientific research methods
• the high degree of self-organization and independent work
• team spirit, reliability, and sense of responsibility

Click here to apply.