Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science / School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Full time, 35 hours per week

Fixed Term (until April 2024)

The Lothian Birth Cohorts group within the Department of Psychology of the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate on a full time, fixed term basis until April 2024.

The Opportunity:

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr Simon Cox as part of a multi-centre NIH funded project to use large-scale brain connectomic analyses to investigate the neurobiology of aging-related cognitive change.

The post holder will process and analyse the human structural connectomic data from UK Biobank and the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936), funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). This includes basic structural and diffusion MRI processing, deriving metrics of interest and analysing their associations with variables of interest such as cognitive ageing and multi-omic data. They will assist in the preparation of scientific manuscripts for journal publication and scientific talks.

Your skills and attributes for success

• A PhD in neuroimaging, psychology, psychiatry, bioinformatics or related discipline or equivalent level of professional experience.
• Be proficient in neuroimaging analyses and bioinformatics.
• Excellent communication skills both oral and written.
• Evidence of such through publication of conference abstracts and scientific papers.
• Proven proficiency in R and/or other advanced statistical packages.
• Have experience with brain MRI analyses.