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Silvia Lopez-Guzman
National Institute of Mental Health
Apply by Sep 26, 2025
Application deadline
Sep 26, 2025
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Silvia Lopez-Guzman
National Institute of Mental Health
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Application Deadline
Sep 26, 2025
Start Date
Flexible
Education Required
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Experience Level
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Silvia Lopez-Guzman
Job Description
The Unit on Computational Decision Neuroscience (CDN) at the National Institute of Mental Health is seeking a full-time Data Scientist/Data Analyst. The lab is focused on understanding the neural and computational bases of adaptive and maladaptive decision-making and their relationship to mental health. Current studies investigate how internal states lead to biases in decision-making and how this is exacerbated in mental health disorders. Our approach involves a combination of computational model-based tasks, questionnaires, biosensor data, fMRI, and intracranial recordings. The main models of interest come from neuroeconomics, reinforcement learning, Bayesian inference, signal detection, and information theory. The main tasks for this position include computational modeling of behavioral data from decision-making and other cognitive tasks, statistical analysis of task-based, clinical, physiological and neuroimaging data, as well as data visualization for scientific presentations, public communication, and academic manuscripts. The candidate is expected to demonstrate experience with best practices for the development of well-documented, reproducible programming pipelines for data analysis, that facilitate sharing and collaboration, and live up to our open-science philosophy, as well as to our data management and sharing commitments at NIH.
Requirements
- Assisting with setting up and managing analysis pipelines
- Conducting advanced analysis of behavioral
- physiological
- and imaging data
- including but not limited to computational modeling and machine learning
- Integrating complex datasets across multiple modalities
- including fMRI
- electrophysiology
- biosensor data neuroendocrinology
- behavior
- and self-report
- Assisting in data visualization for manuscripts and presentation of results at scientific meetings
- Supporting/co-mentoring junior members of the lab on data analysis practices.
Job
Job location
Silvia Lopez-Guzman
Coordinates pending.