Job Number: 40774
Job Title: Research Associate Human Neuroimaging Specialist
Department: Penn State Social, Life, & Engineering Sciences Imaging Center
(SLEIC) Work Unit: Vice President for Research Campus Location: UP
Class: FACL
Number of Jobs: 1
Announce Start Date: 10/04/2013
Closing End Date: 12/31/2013
Faculty Announcement:
The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a Research
Associate position to join the Penn State Social, Life, & Engineering
Sciences Imaging Center (SLEIC; http://www.imaging.psu.edu). The individual
in this position will oversee experimental design optimization and data
quality for our growing neuroimaging community at our research-dedicated 3T
MRI Facility on the University Park campus, which houses a Siemens Trio 3
tesla whole-body scanner. The staff scientist will consult with faculty and
researchers to design and implement structural, functional, and diffusion
weighted neuroimaging experimental protocols and scanning sequences, and,
through courses and workshops, help train researchers new to neuroimaging
(including faculty, postdocs, and graduate students) on neuroimaging
acquisition procedures. He/she will oversee (1) the management of
neuroimaging hardware (scanner, console, software) and peripheral devices
(response boxes, physiological recording equipment, eye tracker, etc.), (2)
procedures related to data quality assurance (e.g., gradient heating,
amplifier stability, ghosting, higher-order shimming, susceptibility
artifacts, reconstruction), and (3) the design and maintenance of MRI
information systems (e.g., data storage, transfer, conversion). Together
with our faculty physicist, the staff scientist will maintain and monitor
the scanner and implement quality assurance and experimental protocols,
working to maximize overall data quality. He or she will also work closely
with a staff scientist charged with overseeing the data analysis core that
supports the design and implementation of analytic procedures for
neuroimaging studies. In addition to supporting the highly collaborative
neuroimaging community, the candidate will have the opportunity to advance
his or her own program of research.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a related discipline with a background in
functional and structural MRI and diffusion weighted neuroimaging. He or she
should be able to lead and support work optimizing scan sequences for each
of these types of imaging protocols as well as incorporate multiple data
collection channels, such as eye-tracking, EEG, and peripheral physiology
while in the magnet. The successful candidate should have the flexibility
and expertise to (1) support research across a variety of content areas and
(2) implement advances and new approaches in neuroimaging data collection.
The SLEIC has an ongoing relationship with the Center for Nuclear Magnetic
Resonance Research (CNMRR) at the Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and
is part of the Social Sciences Research Institute (http://www.ssri.psu.edu).
Other MRI facilities at University Park include a 7 T and a 14.1 T Agilent,
as well as a 20 T Bruker preclinical system.
This is a fixed-term renewable appointment based at the University Park
campus. Full Penn State benefits are included.
Employment will require successful completion of background check(s) in
accordance with University policies. Penn State is committed to affirmative
action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.
Applicants should email curriculum vitae, statement of research interests,
and names of three referees to: Sherry Yocum, [log in to unmask], Social Science
Research Institute, 114 Henderson, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA 16802. Materials accepted until position is filled.
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