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This is a term position; length of the term will be discussed during the interview process. Continuation past the term length discussed will be based on university need, performance, and/or availability of funding.

 

POSITION SPECIFICS

The Development, Risk, and Resilience lab (https://drrlab.la.psu.edu/) and the REPEAT lab (https://sites.psu.edu/repeatlab/) at The Pennsylvania State University led by Drs. Rina D. Eiden and Emily Ansell, respectively, invite applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar.

Ideal start date would be Fall, 2026, with flexibility.

Responsibilities include working on the Growing Up Healthy project – a longitudinal study beginning in the first trimester of pregnancy with current data collection focused on the transition from late adolescence (16-18 years) to young adulthood (18-20 years). The goal of the adolescent wave of this study is to examine developmental cascades linking pre-postnatal risks to adolescent risk behaviors (measured at macro and micro time scales) via parent-child interpersonal processes and child behavioral and autonomic regulation. Participants were oversampled for prenatal tobacco and tobacco-use in pregnancy. Prospective biological and self-report data were collected once cannabis in each trimester of pregnancy and at multiple time points from infancy to middle childhood. Assessments for the current study will include five biannual waves of data collection between late adolescence and young adulthood and ecological momentary assessment collected in young adulthood for 21 days from adolescents in order to identify proximal predictors of adolescent risk behaviors.

The Postdoctoral Scholar will be engaged in all aspects of the study with a primary focus on data management and analyses and will collaborate on writing scientific papers and presentations. Duties will also include working with graduate students and research staff across multiple collaborating universities and labs. The Postdoctoral Scholar will be located at the University Park campus of Penn State. This work will take advantage of the University’s broad resources, including the Child Study Center (