Postdoctoral Fellow - 7 Tesla MR Imaging of Prefrontal Cortex

We seek a postdoctoral fellow to work on an NIH-funded project titled "Narrowing the mechanistic gap for anterior prefrontal cortex function" at the University of California Berkeley. This project targets the lateral aspect of anterior PFC, a brain region whose anatomy in humans is not clearly defined and whose fundamental role in cognition is poorly understood. At a descriptive level, aLPFC is involved in higher-level cognitive abilities such as planning, multi-tasking, reasoning, memory retrieval monitoring, and decision-making. Here, we seek to investigate its function at a more granular level in multiple ways, including high-resolution fMRI and diffusion-weighted imaging on the NexGen 7 Tesla scanner at the Brain Imaging Center at UC Berkeley. This project is led by Professor Silvia Bunge (Professor in Psychology & the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute), with an all-star cast of collaborators/consultants at UC Berkeley, UCSF, Vanderbilt University, the National Institutes of Health, the University of Minnesota, and Maastricht University.

Start- and end-dates are flexible. Applications will be considered until the position is filled, up to April 30th, 2025. For more details, visit https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04378. Please e-mail Professor Bunge with questions and/or after submitting an application: sbunge @ berkeley.edu