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Position Number: 2442844
Location: Boston, MA
Position Type: Laboratory and Research

Research Technician

About Northeastern:

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experiential approach empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create impact far beyond the confines of discipline, degree, and campus.

Our locations-in Boston; Charlotte, North Carolina; London; Portland, Maine; San Francisco; Seattle; Silicon Valley; Toronto; Vancouver; and the Massachusetts communities of Burlington and Nahant-are nodes in our growing global university system. Through this network, we expand opportunities for flexible, student-centered learning and collaborative, solutions-focused research.

Northeastern's comprehensive array of undergraduate and graduate programs- in a variety of on-campus and online formats-lead to degrees through the doctorate in nine colleges and schools. Among these, we offer more than 195 multi-discipline majors and degrees designed to prepare students for purposeful lives and careers.

About the Opportunity:

Responsibilities:

Opportunity: The Plasticity in Neurodevelopment Lab (PINE Lab) at Northeastern University, led by Professor Laurel Gabard-Durnam, is seeking a full-time Research Technician to work on a project examining how electroencephalography (EEG) neuroimaging measures in the first years of life underlie and predict later executive function development in two different populations. Though the position is based here in Boston, MA, we will be focusing on remotely supporting data collection and analysis with families in South Africa and Malawi. This role and our PINE Lab efforts are part of a multi-investigator, collaborative international team working together on this project, as well as the Wellcome LEAP 1kD consortium of projects funded across the globe with the same aims. The goals of this project are: 1) to use both MRI and EEG across cultures to understand the neurodevelopmental pathways shaping executive function skills, 2) to identify scalable brain markers of healthy, at-risk, and resilient executive function development, 3) to understand how early experiences and other intervenable factors shape these early brain markers within- and across-cultures, and 4) identify and share culture- and country-specific information about factors promoting executive function development and sensitive windows for intervention.
This role provides exposure to research at the intersection of neuroscience, developmental psychology, predictive modeling, and public health. The Research Technician will be able to participate in the Wellcome Leap 1kD Consortium and the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University. This is a research-focused lab-manager position that will involve a high degree of data processing and analysis, with the opportunity to earn first-authorship on publications stemming from this project. The technician must demonstrate cultural competence and sensitivity as this is an international project examining neurodevelopment in multiple countries. Primary responsibilities of the position include: (1) EEG data management and quality control remotely for international contexts; (2) training others on EEG data collection with infants and children; (3) working collaboratively with our team to meet project goals; (4) manuscript preparation and authorship and (5) general administrative duties to maintain the workings of the project. This position may serve as a launching pad to graduate studies. We encourage applications from members of under-represented groups in science

Qualifications:

(1) background in developmental psychology, neuroscience, public health, or a related field (2) excellent organizational and communication skills, (3) B.A., B.S., or equivalent preferred, (4) experience in a lab using electroencephalography (EEG) methods preferred, (5) experience with data collection in infants or populations that have experienced adversity is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

Salary Grade:

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Additional Information:

Northeastern University is an equal opportunity employer, seeking to recruit and support a broadly diverse community of faculty and staff. Northeastern values and celebrates diversity in all its forms and strives to foster an inclusive culture built on respect that affirms inter-group relations and builds cohesion.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

To learn more about Northeastern University's commitment and support of diversity and inclusion, please see www.northeastern.edu/diversity.

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