Thursday, January 22, 2009

JOBS: Postdoctoral fellowship for cognitive aging training at Georgia Tech

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN COGNITIVE AGING

The Cognitive Aging Program in the School of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology will have an opening for a postdoctoral Fellow on its NIH-sponsored training grant starting in summer, 2009 (contingent upon an anticipated renewal of the training grant by NIH). Postdoctoral trainees work with core faculty members in the Cognitive Aging Program including: Fredda Blanchard-Fields - social cognition, emotion regulation, everyday problem solving; Audrey Duarte – neuroscience of memory; Arthur Dan Fisk - attention, human factors, applied cognition; Christopher Hertzog - memory, metacognition, intelligence; Wendy A. Rogers - human factors, applied cognition, attention and learning; Anderson D. Smith - episodic memory, animal models; Daniel H. Spieler - attention, language processing, modeling; Paul Verhaeghen – attention, speed of processing, working memory. There are also other faculty members affiliated with our training program who can collaborate with postdoctora! l fellows. More information about faculty interests and the School of Psychology can be located at http://www.psychology.gatech.edu. Fellowships are restricted to U.S. citizens or permanent residents. To apply, please send a vitae, publications, a letter of application identifying possible matches to faculty mentors, and three reference letters by April 1, 2009 to Christopher Hertzog; School of Psychology; Georgia Institute of Technology; Atlanta, GA 30332-0170. Georgia Institute of Technology is a unit of the University System of Georgia and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.