Job Details

Posting Number: S14781P

Working Title: Research Professional

Department: COE-Kinesiology

Position Summary

We seek a highly motivated full-time Research Professional to contribute to an NIH-funded clinical study on stroke motor function recovery, and related kinesiology, neuroscience, and neurorehabilitation research in human motor control, skill learning, and recovery.

The Research Professional will work in a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative environment across multiple departments and institutions, including scientists, engineers, physical/occupational therapists, and physicians. This position will provide invaluable experience for anyone interested in pursuing graduate study in the fields of biomedical engineering, neuroscience, kinesiology, medicine, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

This position has a limited-term appointment term which is expected to end 1 year after the start date. The position may be extended beyond the initial term, contingent upon continued funding.

This full-time position is benefits-eligible.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and/or Competencies

• Knowledge of programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, and the ability to pick up various computer-based applications and data analysis tools, as well as troubleshooting hardware issues with sensors.
• Ability to function independently with a high degree of self-motivation.
• Interpersonal skills needed to interact with patients and healthy research participants.
• Excellent communication skills to coordinate within and outside the team.

Duties/Responsibilities

Programming, testing, and troubleshooting advanced devices for movement kinetics/kinematics assessment (20%): prototyping, testing, and maintaining testing equipment for human upper extremity motor function assessment; assembling hardware and troubleshooting electronic issues; developing, implementing, and testing the communication environment between hardware and software; testing the functionality of the system.

Assisting the design and implementation of behavioral and neurophysiology experiments on human dexterous movements (20%): participating in design of human psychophysical experiments; programming human-subject experiments with Python, MATLAB, C++; maintaining and troubleshooting testing equipment.

Assisting data analysis, manuscript and grant proposal preparation (20%): collecting, analyzing, and reporting data using MATLAB, Python, and other software and computational tools; participating in the interpretation of results; participating in manuscript preparation if desired, but not required.

Assisting with patient recruitment and scheduling (10%)

Assisting in the preparation of IRB protocols (10%)

Administrating neurological and behavioral assessments (10%)

Assisting with other lab logistics (10%)