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[Jeff Zemla]

The Austerweil Lab at University of Wisconsin-Madison is looking to hire a
full-time Research Specialist. The position will begin July 1st, 2019 and
last for one year.

Application link:
https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/501003/research-specialist

Questions: Email austerweil at wisc.edu and zemla at wisc.edu with subject
"Research Specialist position"

Project:

Alzheimer’s disease is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that
imposes a huge burden on individuals, families, and the US healthcare
system. Yet early diagnosis of the disease remains a difficult challenge.
We have designed naturalistic cognitive behavioral tests related to memory
and language to predict Alzheimer's disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment
during early phases of the disease. We will validate these tests by
comparing performance on these tests to performance on existing
neurpsychological tests and biomarker data. We will track individuals
longitudinally to measure variability and rate of decline.


Duties may include:

- Implement web experiments in Javascript, Qualtrics, or similar

- Recruit, schedule, and run participants (online and in-person)

- Perform literature reviews

- Data cleaning and preliminary data analyses

- Writing internal progress reports and abstracts/manuscripts for
submission to conferences

Requirements:

- BA or BS in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, or other related
field

- Experience with subject recruitment (some undergrad experience is
sufficient). Previous work with elderly or clinical population is
preferred, but not necessary.

- Must have basic data science skills -- minimum Excel, but basic
programming skills is preferred (R/Python especially).

- Good communication and organizational skills.
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