New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and six centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, clinical and translational research, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

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Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey is seeking a motivated Postdoctoral Fellow for the department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation within the New Jersey Medical School to conduct Neurorehabilitation and Neuroimaging Research. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work on ongoing research that uses neuroimaging to better understand motor related impairment following neurological, neuromuscular and musculoskeletal diseases and injuries, for diverse patient populations including traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, cancer, and stroke. The Postdoctoral Fellow will work on various aspects of research projects from inception (e.g., study formulation, grant-writing, etc.), through dissemination (conference presentation and manuscript publication).

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Assists in ongoing endeavors as well as develop his/her own mentored research projects. There are opportunities for
  fellows to join existing programs.
• Contributes towards various aspects of research projects ranging from inception (e.g., study formulation, grantswriting, etc.) to manuscript publication.
• Fulfills all mandatory compliance requirements (i.e. CITI, HIPAA and other required certifications).

Information about the benefits provided to Rutgers employees can be found at: http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview

• Qualifying candidates must have an earned doctorate in engineering (e.g. biomedical, rehabilitation, mechanical), biomechanics, kinesiology, motor control/neuroscience, or a related field.
• Strong candidates will have prior experience in performing research studies in human subjects, as well as some history of publication and presentation of original research.
• Experience with motion analysis, experience with medical imaging (e.g., MRI, high-density EEG, TMS), experience with EMG collection/analysis.

• Ability to independently develop processing methods for data analysis (using for example Matlab or Labview).
• Knowledge of statistical data analysis, and excellent written communication skills.