Postdoctoral Scholar

Description

Area:   Individual, Biological, Sociocultural, and Environmental correlates of Perinatal Mental Health/Substance use and Child Development

Duration:   1 year with strong possibility of renewal

Start Date:   Spring/Summer 2025 or negotiable

Salary:   CAD $60,000/yr + benefits

The Department of Radiology in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar.

The Developmental Neuroimaging Lab (PI: Dr. Catherine Lebel, Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Calgary) and the PEANUTs Lab (PI: Dr. Charlie Rioux, Assistant Professor in Human & Health Sciences at Texas Tech University) are accepting applications for a postdoctoral scholar. The position is based at the University of Calgary in Canada.

Job Description:

The successful candidate will produce scientific papers in the areas of developmental psychopathology/ psychiatry/psychology/public health. The postdoctoral scholar will work on a funded project to examine trajectories of substance use during pregnancy and postpartum, and their associations with child development (socioemotional, communication, motor, and/or problem solving). This project will use data from the Pregnancy during the Pandemic (PdP) study, which followed >10 000 pregnant individuals across Canada during pregnancy and continues to follow the children born to these individuals, measuring their development through surveys, biosamples, and neuroimaging. The postdoctoral scholar will also have the opportunity to develop and lead research projects using PdP and/or other datasets (e.g., Experiences of Pregnancy) and to contribute to other ongoing projects in Dr. Rioux¿s and/or Dr Lebel¿s labs, based on their interests and career goals.

Qualifications:

• PhD in psychology, psychiatry, psychoeducation, public health, medical sciences, statistics, or other relevant discipline
• Academic excellence as demonstrated in grades (GPA above 3.7/4.3 or 3.5/4; or equivalent)
• Publications, communications, and research experience
• Methodological skills and experience in using large data sets and/or longitudinal data sets
• Capacity to estimate statistical models using repeated assessments over multiple years (experience with longitudinal structural modeling will be favoured)
• Previous experience analyzing data with software such as SPSS, SAS, R, Mplus, Stata, HLM, etc. (experience with SPSS, Mplus, and/or R will be particularly favoured)
• Demonstrated capacity to work effectively in a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment

Application Details:

Applicants should submit a letter of interest, CV, graduate transcript, and names and contact information for at least two referees to [email protected] and [email protected]. 
 

The terms and conditions of employment are covered under the UCalgary and PDAC Collective Agreement. To find out more about postdoctoral scholar program at the University of Calgary visit our Postdocs website.  

To learn more about postdoctoral scholar opportunities at the University of Calgary, view our Postdoc Careers website.

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