Postbaccalaureate fellow

The Advanced MRI Section (AMRI) in the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland is seeking postbaccalaureate fellow candidates for two projects: an all-night EEG-FMRI sleep study in healthy controls and an EEG-FMRI-CPAP nap study in patients with epilepsy. The fellow will assist with research coordinator duties and data collection. Tasks and priorities will vary depending on the phase of the study and amendments that are made to the protocol. With time (4 months or longer), the fellow may be invited to develop an independent data analysis project. Candidates must be willing and able to work night shifts and in the MRI environment. The start date is flexible but will likely be summer 2025.

As part of the NIH Intramural Research Program, AMRI has access to unique imaging and computational resources, including four 3 T and three 7 T human MRI scanners, EEG and MEG systems, and a large (currently 116,340-core) computational cluster. AMRI has a dedicated group of researchers with expertise in state-of-the-art MRI techniques, data analysis tools, MRI physics, and sleep neuroscience.

Required Qualifications:

• Willingness and ability to work night shifts (generally, one per week)
• Willingness and ability to work in the MRI environment
• Willingness to perform research coordinator duties
• US citizen or permanent resident
• College graduates who received a bachelor's degree within three years of beginning the program OR have received a master's degree within six months before beginning the program

Preferred Qualifications:

• A strong desire to learn sleep neuroscience
• Statistics experience
• Scientific computer programming, command-line interfacing, and/or signal processing experience

Applicants are requested to send their curriculum vitae to Dante Picchioni, PhD at dante.picchioni@nih.gov. It is encouraged to include contact information for three references from mentors and/or colleagues.

For more information on the NIH Intramural Research Training Award, see:

https://www.training.nih.gov/research-training/pb/pb

For more information on the laboratory, see:

https://amri.ninds.nih.gov

Please note that you must be willing and able to work night shifts and in the MRI environment. You cannot perform these essential functions if you ever had a seizure; if you ever had a psychotic, depressive, or bipolar disorder; or if you have a serious contraindication for MRI. This will be verified with a physical.