Postdoc / Research Associate

**Job Description**
This role offers an opportunity within the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences to join a world-class academic team in neurodevelopment. The focus is on data analysis and methods development to enhance understanding of mechanisms underpinning typical and altered neurodevelopment, brain structure, and function across the lifespan, including in neurotypical populations and those with neurodevelopmental, mental health, and psychiatric conditions. Candidates will have access to large, multimodal, longitudinal datasets such as AIMS-2-TRIALS, the South African BONO cohort, and the SLAM Image Bank.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Advanced (statistical) data analysis (including e.g., normative modelling, clustering/subgrouping, longitudinal, multivariate approaches)
• Programming skills
• Ability to write complex reports and/or scientific publications
• Ambition to apply for research grants
• Ambition to establish inter/cross-disciplinary collaborations
• Ability to think critically and independently
• Enthusiasm and motivation to pursue complex scientific projects
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Teaching experience (desirable)
• Ambition to involve stakeholder communities in the research process (desirable)
• Experience in working with clinical records databases (desirable)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Neuroscience
• Neuroimaging
• Neurobiology
• Neuroinformatics
• Data science
• A related field (PhD near completion or awarded)

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• Previous experience in analysing neuroimaging (structural magnetic resonance imaging or low field neuroimaging) data across age-groups
Other:
• Emergent track record of peer reviewed journal publications

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