Applications are invited for postdoctoral fellow appointments at the Beckman
Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign. The Beckman Institute is an interdisciplinary research center that focuses on
four main research themes: Biological Intelligence, Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction,
Integrative Imaging, and Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures. The Institute also has
three strategic initiatives: HABITS (Health: Attitudes, Biology, Information, Technology, and
Society), Imaging, and Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy.
The Beckman Institute Fellows Program provides an excellent opportunity for young
scholars to initiate a post-Ph.D. career of independent research in a stimulating and supportive
interdisciplinary environment. The fields of research encompassed by the Beckman
Institute Fellows program include the behavioral, biological, and environmental sciences,
chemistry, physics, computation, engineering, human factors, neuroscience, and cognitive
neuroscience.
An important facet of the HABITS initiative (http://habits.beckman.illinois.edu/) is work focused
on successful aging. Faculty with research programs in aging include: Aaron Benjamin,
Kiel Christianson, Neal Cohen, Monica Fabiani, Kara Federmeier, Gabriele Gratton, Wai-Tat Fu,
Fatima Husain, Art Kramer, Eddie McAuley, Dan Morrow, and Liz Stine-Morrow.
Year 2012 Beckman Institute Fellows will be appointed for up to three years, beginning as
early as July 2012, and no later than December 31, 2012. Fellows receive $52,000 per year
and a research budget that includes a limited reimbursement for health insurance premiums.
The Beckman Institute Fellows Program is generously supported by funding from the
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation. Selection of Beckman Institute Fellows is based on
evidence of professional promise, capacity for independent work, outstanding achievement
to date, and interdisciplinary research interests corresponding to one or more of the
Beckman Institute's programs. To be eligible, a Ph.D. must have been received no earlier
than December 2009.
More information and application materials can be found at:
Deadline for receipt: Monday, November 28, 2011.
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Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Professor of Educational Psychology,
Psychology, and the Beckman Institute
4141 Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews Avenue
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, IL 61801
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 244-2167 (office)
(217) 244-7336 (lab)
(217) 244-7620 (fax)
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