Post-Docs & Graduate Students Welcome!

Send your CV to Dr. Schon or contact us for more research support opportunities!

We currently have two Post-Doc positions in the Emerging Adult study and the Older Adult study and one research assistant.

The lab’s research mission is to understand modulators of brain plasticity mechanisms and human cognition from a cognitive neuroscience perspective. Research in the lab focuses on the medial temporal hippocampal system and modifiers of brain function and structure, such as exercise, psychosocial stress, and aging. More recently, research in the lab has focused on the impact of chronic stress related to experiences of social discrimination and racism burden on brain health and neurocognitive aging.

As a Post-doctoral candidate in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, you will be working on projects investigating the impact of racism burden and resilience factors on neurocognitive outcomes across the lifespan in Black adults. The position will involve community outreach and recruitment, collection of MRI, neuropsychological, and cardiovascular risk biomarkers, as well as data analysis, data presentation, and write-up. Opportunities to write individual training grants and supervise and mentor graduate and undergraduate student research assistants, including those from groups underrepresented in STEM fields, are available to the candidate.