Senior Research Associate in Cognitive Neuroscience of Bi-/Multilingualism

Overview

The School of Social Sciences seeks to appoint a post-doctoral researcher (fixed term contract for two years) to work in the Brain and Bilingual Experiences Lab (BaBEL). The successful candidate will join the BaBEL lab, which is part of the Multilingualism and Cognition (M&C) research group within the Linguistics and English Language (LAEL) discipline. The candidate will work most directly under the supervision of Prof. Jason Rothman and Prof. Patrick Rebuschat, who co-lead the M&C research group.

Qualifications

• PhD in Linguistics (specialization in Psycho- or Neurolinguistics), Psychology (specializing in language and/or bi-/multilingualism), Cognitive Neuroscience, or a cognate area.
• Demonstrated excellence in research commensurate with experience, including an established or developing portfolio of publications in high-impact international journals; potentially also including experience in competitive grant submissions (or success); evidence of prior successful work or leadership in similar lab environments and providing academic support to colleagues.
• Demonstrable experience with neuroimaging methods and analysis related to the neurobiology of language, linguistic processing, and/or neurocognitive adaptations associated with language experience; ideally applied to bi-/multilingualism.

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