Postdoctoral Research Associate position at Texas A&M University Health Science Center, conducting research into clinical research with behavioral and neuroscience outcomes pertaining to the use of low-intensity focused ultrasound in human subjects.
Requirements
- Hold a doctoral degree (Ph.D) in a relevant field from an accredited institution
- 6 years of experience in Neuroscience
- Doctoral work in the area of Neurosciences and/or Network Analysis
- Ability to perform advanced structural and functional image analysis
- Ability to perform Free Surfer analyses for structural brain images
- Ability to perform whole-brain probabilistic tractography preferably with MRtrix3
- Ability to perform advanced fMRI preprocessing with fMRIPrep pipeline (inBIDS -Brain Imaging Data Structure -environment)
- Ability to perform seed-to-voxel and voxel-to-voxel functional fMRI connectivity analysis with AFNI, CONN, and SPM
- Familiarity with low-intensity focused ultrasound modeling to establish actual tissue energy delivery (preferably with Babel Brain or embedded in Brain sight neuro navigation system, or k-wave)
- Ability to perform advanced complex network analysis (preferably with experience on NetworkX)
- Ability to obtain advanced graphics (e.g. seaborn)
- Code in Python, C and BASH
Benefits
- Medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life and AD&D
- Flexible spending accounts
- Long-term disability insurance
- 12-15 days of annual paid holidays
- Up to eight hours of paid sick leave and at least eight hours of paid vacation each month
- Automatic enrollment in the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
- Health and Wellness: Free exercise programs and release time
- Professional Development: All employees have access to free LinkedIn Learning training, webinars, and limited financial support to attend conferences, workshops, and more
- Educational release time and tuition assistance for completing a degree while a Texas A&M employee
- Living Well, a program at Texas A&M that has been built by employees, for employees
