Research Assistant I or II

Posting Number: S06718P

Job Description:

Dr. Saul Frankford is hiring a full-time Research Assistant I or II for his lab in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. The lab’s research focuses on using behavioral and neural techniques to understand the interplay between sensation and speech production in individuals with neurological speech and voice disorders.

Currently, we are running projects with neurotypical adults and adults with Parkinson’s disease, focusing on auditory processing of speech timing and acoustic measures of speech timing from a variety of speaking tasks, with plans to use structural and functional neuroimaging, altered auditory feedback, and brain stimulation to probe mechanisms of speech motor control. Join our team and be involved with collecting and writing up data from any and all of these great and innovative multimodal studies.

This position will provide technical assistance supporting various research projects and conduct research activities according to research protocol. Research activities may include some or all of the following: patient recruiting and screening, traditional laboratory experiments & activities, and/or neuroimaging data collection.

This is an ideal position for someone interested in building more skills before applying for graduate school in the next few years. You will get in-depth experience in multidisciplinary research and intensive neuroimaging training, build data skills, publish papers, attend conferences, and make connections with a number of different speech motor control and neuroscience research groups.

The appointment is for one year, with the possibility of renewal contingent upon continued funding and satisfactory performance.