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| School: |
Medicine
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| Department: |
Psychiatry
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| Classification: |
Postdoctoral Associate |
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NIH Grant |
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| Start Date: |
11/1/2025 |
| Overall Summary: |
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Duties or Responsibilities:
- Conduct independent methodological and/or applied research using existing data.
- Adapt and apply cutting-edge statistical methods to investigate research questions related to sleep/circadian rhythms and mental health
- Submit first- and co-author publications to high-quality peer-reviewed journals stemming from independent and collaborative research.
- Participate in ongoing NIH-funded studies of sleep/circadian science and mental health in adolescence, including the Pediatric Precision Sleep Network (PPSN) and the Center for Adolescent Rhythms and Reward (CARRS)
- Gain training in content and methods for sleep-circadian science.
- Gain training in statistical methods for psychiatric research, especially related to multi-modal and high-dimensional sleep and psychiatric data.
- Gain skills to launch and maintain a successful research career in psychiatric statistics.
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Qualifications or Expectations:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Commitment to quality and integrity are essential skills
- Familiarity with mixed effect models, analysis of high-dimensional data, clustering, and/or machine learning is preferred
- A PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, biostatistics, or quantitative psychology) is preferred
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Opportunities Available:
- The successful candidate(s) will continue in their own independent methodological and/or applied research, receive training in cutting-edge methods for statistics in psychiatry (e.g., related to sleep/circadian data, mental health, high-dimensional and/or multi-modal data, clustering, and/or machine learning), and engage in various applied collaborative projects sponsored by NIH and other agencies
- The candidate will publish their research in high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and have the opportunity to help to develop and submit grants as an independent investigator and/or key collaborator
- The successful candidate will find this position as an opportunity to launch and maintain a successful research career in statistics for psychiatry research
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| Website: |
https://psychstats.pitt.edu/ |
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