Employment Opportunities

Postdoctoral Fellow

The STAAR Lab (www.staarlab.com) is a dynamic new neuroscience lab in Stanford’s Psychiatry Department, led by Neir Eshel, MD, PhD. We are looking to hire curious and ambitious postdocs to join our team. Lab projects focus on the neural circuitry of reward-seeking and aggression, using optogenetics, in vivo imaging, electrophysiology, and sophisticated machine learning/artificial intelligence analyses of mouse behavior. All projects have translational components, with special emphasis on autism, depression, and addiction. There are ample opportunities for career development and clinical exposure based on candidate interest. Post date - June 2025

Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

The Fellow will contribute to the development of computational brain models of grief and resilience in older adults, participating in multiple projects that employ advanced functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate brain network mechanisms underlying diverse grief trajectories, including adaptive (resilient) responses and complications such as Prolonged Grief Disorder. This position also offers a unique opportunity to work with rich, multimodal longitudinal datasets. Post date - June 2025-December 2025

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor at CUMC - Women's Mental Health Divison

The research to practice Center for the Transition to Parenthood, Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, seeks outstanding and innovative scientists with established or emerging research programs and success in garnering extramural funding. Applicants are invited to apply for two open-rank non-tenure track positions with flexible start date in 2025. - Post date - May 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Executive Director of the Mary Horrigan Connors Center for Women’s Health Research and Director of the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA, is seeking a highly motivated full-time Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong background in clinical neuroscience, women's brain health, and sex-differences in diseases such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and cardiovascular disease to join our team and participate in the research and network activities and programs in both the Department of Psychiatry and the Connors Center of Women's Health Research. Post date - May 2025 to October 1, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Behavioral Pharmacology and Neuroimaging

McLean Hospital, America's top ranked freestanding psychiatric hospital, is inviting applications for a postdoctoral position in the Behavioral Biology Program at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School (HMS). Post date - April 2025