Research Scientist/Engineer

Education Required: Doctorate degree in cognitive or developmental psychology, or cognitive science

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years post-doctoral or related experience preferably in cognitive or developmental psychology.
• Good computer skills, programming experience in Matlab and MS Access required, with the ability to program cognitive psychology experiments. 
• Expertise in statistical models using mixed effects models.
• Experience completing research projects in spoken and written language processing.
• Ability to design and conduct eye-tracking experiments (including data processing).
• Flexible schedule – weekend and evening hours are regularly needed.
• Valid driver’s license and the ability to meet the University of Iowa driving policy.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with working in a team environment.
• Ability to supervise undergraduate and graduate students.
• Demonstrated attention to detail. Well organized, Responsible. 
• Ability to perform and score standardized clinical assessments of language and cognition, or to rapidly learn those skills.
• Experience with audio equipment, speech processing or speech synthesis packages, and/or acoustic analysis. 
• Experience with Adobe Photoshop.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of 14 calendar days. For this ad, that is from January 16, 2019 – January 30, 2019.  This job may be removed from posting and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.  Successful candidates will be subject to a criminal background check.   For questions, additional information, or a detailed job description, please contact Christine-stevens@uiowa.edu.