Postdoctoral Fellow (Benge Lab), Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School

Job Posting Title:

Postdoctoral Fellow (Benge Lab), Department of Neurology, Dell Medical School

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Hiring Department:

Department of Neurology

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Position Open To:

All Applicants

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Weekly Scheduled Hours:

40

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FLSA Status:

Exempt

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Earliest Start Date:

Immediately

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Position Duration:

Expected to Continue Until Aug 31, 2025

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Location:

AUSTIN, TX

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Job Details:

General Notes

This position has an end date of 08/31/25. Renewable based upon availability of funding, work performance, and progress toward research goals.

This position will likely involve hybrid on-site, work from home, and work from community components.

Purpose

A research post-doctoral position is available in the Benge TECHANS lab at the University of Texas at Austin.  This position will assist with an R01 funded project on smartphone technology usage, prospective memory functioning, and Alzheimer’s disease and related conditions.  The post-doc will be involved in data collection in older adult patient populations, community outreach, data analysis, and data presentation, and will collaborate with clinical scientists at Baylor University and Baylor Scott & White Healthcare. This position involves a significant amount of patient-facing time for study participant recruitment and conduction of research visits. This position also involves administrative tasks, working with the PI, department, sponsors, and institution to support the compliance, financial, personnel and other related aspects of the clinical studies.

Responsibilities

• Study preparation/infrastructure and experimental framework development

• Recruitment, data collection, and data management.

• Data analysis and dissemination.

• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

PhD or PsyD in psychology, rehabilitation, speech and language sciences, or related disciplines. PhD must be received within the last three years. Experience with human subjects research. Excellent interpersonal skills. To ensure alignment, we follow these fundamental values: https://dellmed.utexas.edu/culture.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with older adults. Fluency in Spanish. Experience in cognitive rehabilitation.

Salary Range

$56,484

Working Conditions

• May work around standard office conditions.

• Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.

• Occasional weekend, overtime and evening work to meet deadlines.

• Occasional interstate, intrastate and international travel.

• Field work as necessary.

Required Materials

• Resume/CV

• 3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

• Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers: You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications. Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section; you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.  Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers: As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs. If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply. This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume. In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) that were noted above.

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Employment Eligibility:

Please make sure you meet all the required qualifications and you can perform all of the essential functions with or without a reasonable accommodation.

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Retirement Plan Eligibility:

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length. This position has the option to elect the Optional Retirement Program (ORP) instead