[CogSci] PhD opportunity in the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at UNH

[Emily Liquin]

Dear colleagues,

I am looking for a new PhD student to join my lab at the University of New Hampshire beginning in Fall 2026.

My lab (the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab; https://liquinlab.github.io/) studies how children and adults learn through exploration, explanation, and question-asking. For example, one ongoing line of work examines how exploration changes with experience, knowledge, and cognitive development. Another investigates the cognitive and computational mechanisms underlying curiosity. We use developmental, experimental, and computational approaches.

The University of New Hampshire is located in Durham, NH—a beautiful New England town just over an hour from Boston, MA and Portland, ME (with Amtrak access to both!), 30 minutes from the ocean, and a couple hours from the White Mountains. Our PhD program offers rigorous training in both research and teaching. Admitted PhD students are fully funded for five years through a combination of teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and/or teaching as the instructor of record.

Applications are currently being accepted through the Department of Psychology: https://cola.unh.edu/psychology/program/phd/psychology. Review of applications will begin on January 15th, 2026. Prospective students are welcome to email me with any questions (emily.liquin at unh.edu<mailto:emily.liquin at unh.edu>).

Please share this announcement with your students and mentees—thank you!

Best,
Emily Liquin


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Emily Liquin, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of New Hampshire
https://liquinlab.github.io/

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