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Employment Opportunity: Research Assistant/Coordinator position in the Developing Brains Laboratory at UC Irvine.

October 4, 2018 by IISBR

Director:  Dr. Kristina Uban, and in association with Public Health, IISBR and FIBRE.

The Developing Brains Laboratory is seeking a part-time (40% effort at 16 hours per week for first year, with potential for promotion to full-time Lab Manager in Years 2-3) research assistant to facilitate the launch of Dr. Uban’s research program at UCI.

Applicants with the following skill set are encouraged to apply:

Preferred experience:

  • Clinical experience with children and adolescents (preferably with developmental disabilities).
  • Highly organized, independent and self-motivated
  • Confident in performing & reporting descriptive statistics of collected data
  • Strong statistical modeling background (hierarchical regression, linear mixed-modeling, exploratory statistics, mediation/moderation models)
  • Background in MRI acquisition and/or processing
  • Previous research experience
  • Able to navigate Internal Review Board applications
  • Experience with programming (preferably R)

Contact to apply or for more information:

Kristina A Uban, PhD
Assistant Professor, Public Health
University of California Irvine
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Email: kuban[at]uci.edu
Office: AIRB 2074, 949-824-9577

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