Posting Date: December 13, 2021

Psychology
University of Toronto
JOB POSTING – POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Area of Research: Cognitive Neuroscience, Women’s Brain Aging and Dementia
Possible Projects: The successful candidate is encouraged to develop & conduct her/his own
project within the scope of the Einstein lab’s and the Canadian Consortium on
Neurodegeneration and Aging’s (CCNA) objectives and will have the opportunity to contributeto and lead analyses of COMPASS-ND data set of the CCNA: https://ccna-ccnv.ca/compass-ndstudy/.
About the Lab: The Einstein Lab comprises diverse, motivated individuals working in an open
intellectual, collaborative environment. The lab focuses on how the biological (sex) and thesocial (gender) intersect to increase women’s risk of late-life dementia. We study reproductive
hormones, genes, inflammation, pain, immigration, and sleep to understand how multiple bodysystems interact to affect cognition and brain structure/function. We combine these measureswith qualitative interviewing to understand how memory changes align with sense of self.
Description of duties:
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Recruiting participants for studies
Designing experiments and writing ethics applications
Gathering data via qualitative or quantitative methods
Analyzing data
Preparing manuscripts for publication
Presenting findings at local, national and international conferences
Providing support to the graduate and undergraduate students also engaged in the project
Providing support for the activities of the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia Crosscutting Program of the CCNA.

Salary: $50,000/year + benefits
Required qualifications: PhD in Neuroscience, Psychology, or related discipline. Excellent
communication skills in English. Experience using MSOffice, SPSS or R a must with Matlab, a plus.
Experience using SPM, FSL, ANTs, PLS and/or AFNI or similar image analysis software is a plus asare programming skills if wanting to engage in imaging projects.
Preferred experience includes: MRI imaging, neuropsychological testing, biomarker analysis,
qualitative interviewing, and/or analysis of data bases. Depending on the project, advanced statistics
would be helpful as well as some experience with sex and gender science or endocrinology.
To learn more about our lab please visit: https://einsteinlab.ca/
Application instructions
All individuals interested in this position must submit a CV, 3 references, 3 related publications to Gillian
Einstein: gillian.einstein@utoronto.ca.
Closing date: open until a suitable candidate is found
Supervisor: Gillian Einstein, PhD; Professor of Psychology and Wilfred and Joyce Posluns Chair in
Women’s Brain Health and Aging; Lead of the Women, Sex, Gender, and Dementia Cross-Cutting
Program of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration and Aging, Guest Professor of Gender andHealth, Linköping University, Sweden.
Expected start date: Earliest start date, February 2022/flexible
Term: 2 years with the possibility of extension
FTE: 1; This position may require evening and/or weekend work.
The normal hours of work are 40 hours per week for a full-time postdoctoral fellow recognizing that theneeds of the employee’s research and training and the needs of the supervisor’s research program may
require flexibility in the performance of the employee’s duties and hours of work.
Employment as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto is covered by the terms of the CUPE
3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902 Unit 5 Collective Agreement.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especiallywelcomes applications from racialized persons / persons of colour, women, Indigenous / Aboriginal
People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute tothe further diversification of ideas.