Behavioral Genetics assistant professorship!
The Department of Psychology at Michigan State University is seeking an outstanding scientist for a tenure system appointment in behavioral and statistical genetics at the rank of assistant professor effective August 16, 2017. We seek a scientist with an interdisciplinary line of scholarship and expertise in computational/statistical genetics as it applies to studies of humans. We have a particular interest in scientists with training in twin methods and analyses as well as computational genomics. Candidates should exhibit a strong potential to secure extramural funding ...
New Job opening: Head of the Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University
The position of Head of the Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Health and Human Sciences, Purdue University is open, with applications requested now.
You would need to provide leadership, vision, and serve as a facilitator for departmental research and scholarship, and educational activities, as well as management of the department.
All information available here (pdf)
2016 ISIR Prize for Best Student Paper
Christin Lotz
Biosketch: Christin obtained her diploma in psychology from the University of Trier, Germany. Currently, she is working on her PhD in educational science at the Saarland University, Germany and is mentored by Jörn Sparfeldt. Her research interests center how intelligence, complex problem solving, and educational attainment are connected. On the base of log-file analyses and SEMs, she investigates how intelligence performance scores as well as intelligence process measures contribute to the understanding of the close relation between intelligence and ...
The Neuroscience of Intelligence! (new book from ISIR past president Rich Haier)
Examination copies available now!
Great new post-doc with Texas Twin Project!
Texas Twin Project, Department of Psychology and Population Research Center
A Postdoctoral Research position is available at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Dr. Elliot Tucker-Drob and Dr. Paige Harden. The candidate will primarily work on the Texas Twin Project, which is currently funded by a 5-year R01 grant from NICHD. The Texas Twin Project is a multi-disciplinary study of an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of child and adolescent twins, with a specific focus on understanding how biological stress influences the development of ...
