Biological Affect Modulation (BAM) Lab

Director: Kymberly Young

Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroimaging in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

The Biological Affect Modulation (BAM) laboratory, directed by Dr. Kymberly Young, is seeking a post-doctoral fellow to conduct innovative research on neuromodulation using real-time functional MRI neurofeedback approaches combined with EEG data acquisition. The lab focuses on mechanisms involved in the onset and recovery from mood and anxiety disorders (with a particular focus on depression) and how to target these mechanisms more directly with neurofeedback. This work presents an exciting opportunity to gain an understanding of innovative neurofeedback methods applied in various patient populations and developing and optimization neurofeedback approaches.

The trainee will benefit from the state of the art imagining facility at the University, which includes two research dedicated Siemens 3T PRISMA scanners, one 7T scanner, and one combined PET/3T MRI system.

Requirements:

  • PhD in a relevant field: Neuroscience, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Psychology
  • Demonstrates advanced analytical and experimental skills
  • Expertise in signal processing
  • Programming experience in Matlab, R, or a similar language
  • Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to author technical and scientific reports, publications, and invited papers, and deliver scientific presentations.
  • Good interpersonal communication skills necessary to collaborate effectively in a team environment and be capable of independent original work.

Preferred:

  • Strong expertise in fMRI methods and analyses
  • AFNI experience
  • EEG experience

If interested, please send your CV, a brief statement of research interests and career goals, and 2 references to Dr. Kymberly Young at youngk@pitt.edu