Northwestern University’s Human Olfaction Lab is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join their research team. The lab studies systems neuroscience, including the human olfactory system, cognition and respiration. The lab uses a wide range of human neuroscience
methods, including functional neuroimaging, diffusion tensor imaging, intracranial EEG, electrical stimulation, and a new intranasal recording method that we recently developed that allows for high-precision electrophysiological recordings from the human olfactory
bulb in healthy volunteers, and fast-scan-cyclic voltammetry based electrochemistry recordings from the olfactory epithelium. The lab is conducting experiments in healthy normosmic individuals, and also in disease populations including Anosmia, Alzheimer's,
Parkinson’s and epilepsy.
We are seeking an outstanding and highly motivated postdoc for this position.
Principal Accountabilities
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To conduct and analyze data from experiments on olfaction, respiration, cognition and or disease.
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To develop new ideas, research methodologies, and analytic approaches to our lab’s research programs.
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To help write grants and compete for funding.
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To help write and contribute to publications resulting from research in the lab.
Minimum Qualifications/Competencies:
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Interest in research on olfaction and/or respiration and/or how these systems are affected in disease.
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Computational skills (machine learning, RSA, pattern analysis, k-means clustering, modeling, etc) in analyzing neural data, preferably across a range of techniques including electrophysiology and neuroimaging.
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Evidence of first-author peer-reviewed publications.
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Excellent communication and writing skills
Preferred Qualifications/Competencies:
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Experience in human neuroscience research.
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Experience in research and clinical training related to neurological conditions are preferred, but not a necessity.
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Skillsets on computational, AI (broadly defined), and data science analytic approaches are an advantage.
To Apply:
Email a cover letter, cv, and 2 references contact info to c-zelano@northwestern.edu