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JOB DESCRIPTION AND POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The Center for Healthy Aging within the College of Health and Human Development at Penn State seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to join an interdisciplinary team focusing on mobile health phenotyping and environmental influences. This position will be directly involved in a diverse range of participant, lab, and university-facing activities across multiple teams to support success amongst projects.

The primary job functions and responsibilities may include:

Project throughput and data monitoring.
Data processing, analyses, and documentation.
Contribute and lead team meetings to evaluate the progress of writing projects.
Project closeout and dissemination, including dataset preparation and manuscript submission procedures.

Eligible candidates are those with a Ph.D. in the behavioral and/or social sciences. The successful candidate must evidence interest and commitment to a research career focused on aging. The candidate must be able to work independently as well as contribute to research labs in the center consisting of graduate students as well as other postdoctoral researchers and faculty.

This position is funded for one year from the start date, with the possibility of renewal. Salary and benefits follow NIH guidelines; more information on benefits for postdoctoral scholars can be found at https://www.research.psu.edu/opa/benefits.

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