[visionlist] Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Psychological Science at RPI

[Fajen, Brett]

We welcome applications for this position from the vision science community.

The Department of Cognitive Science in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level beginning Fall 2023. We seek applicants who are developing or using innovative techniques from statistics or machine learning to analyze, model, and interpret behavioral data, neural data, and/or naturally occurring datasets.

We seek applicants whose research and teaching will contribute to our recently expanded, quantitatively oriented undergraduate program in psychological science, and further strengthen the department’s established undergraduate and graduate programs in cognitive science. The successful candidate is expected to develop an independent, externally supported research program and teach courses in behavioral data science, Bayesian data analysis, and research methods and statistics.

Application link: https://careers.rpi.edu/en-us/job/493580/assistant-professor-in-psychological-science

The Cognitive Science Department offers B.S. undergraduate programs in Psychological Science, Cognitive Science, and Philosophy, and M.S. and Ph.D. graduate programs in Cognitive Science. Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is the nation’s oldest technological university. With approximately 5,000 undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students from across the country and around the world, the university offers more than 145 programs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. Rensselaer is located in Troy, NY, the heart of the “Tech Valley” region of the Hudson River Valley. The university’s Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) offers scholars and students opportunities for creative interdisciplinary research in the arts, performance technologies, science, and engineering.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, or a closely related field at the time of appointment.  Evidence of effective teaching, and the ability to demonstrate, through accomplishment, promise of academic, scholarly and/or research achievement in We seek applicants whose research and teaching will contribute to our recently expanded, quantitatively oriented undergraduate program in psychological science, and further strengthen the department’s established undergraduate and graduate programs in cognitive science. The successful candidate is expected to develop an independent, externally supported research program and teach courses in behavioral data science, Bayesian data analysis, and research methods and statistics. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, or a closely related field at the time of appointment.

Candidates should have a strong theoretically motivated program of research that makes use of experimental approaches and complements the department’s existing strengths in cognition, perception, and/or action (broadly defined).

Applications received by November 15, 2022 will receive first consideration.

We welcome candidates who will bring diverse cultural, ethnic, national and international perspectives to Rensselaer’s work and campus communities.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity, Race/Gender/Veterans/Disability Employer.

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