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Requisition # 2024-20287
Date Posted 20 hours ago(1/14/2025 1:03 PM)
The Primate Research Program (PRR) at Princeton University operates as a centralized facility overseen by the Director and Attending Veterinarian (Dir/AV) of the PRR, falling under the Office of the Dean for Research. Tasked with the care of large research animals, particularly nonhuman primates (Nhp), the PRR ensures compliance with USDA regulations. Nonhuman Primate Animal Care Technicians (Nhp ACTs) play a crucial role in maintaining the facility's cleanliness and ensuring an adequate supply of food, bedding materials, and personal protective equipment (PPE). Working under the guidance of the Floor Leader, delegated by the Dir/AV, Nhp ACTs collaborate with fellow technicians on a predetermined schedule. They are pivotal in upholding the welfare and ethical treatment of research...
Department
Primate Research Resources
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2025-20354
Date Posted 2 days ago(1/13/2025 11:55 AM)
About BDIThe Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying the groundwork for longer-term to bridge the divides we face as a nation. We do this by 1) producing action-oriented and responsive research to fill existing gaps and empower local leaders; 2) enabling cross-sector collaboration, so individuals and organizations are better prepared to mitigate risk and respond to crisis when it does arise; and 3) helping to drive the policy and community response. Over the past four years, BDI played an essential role in supporting a wide range of actors preparing for and...
Department
Schl of Public & Int'l Affairs
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2025-20355
Date Posted 2 days ago(1/13/2025 7:32 AM)
The Hasson Lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute has an opportunity available for a research assistant. The Hasson lab is part of an exciting and growing trend in neuroscience that studies the neural activity that drives human behavior under natural and realistic conditions. Among other things, the candidate will work with ECoG data and machine learning algorithms on one of our flagship projects. Ideal candidates should be highly motivated, driven, and work well in a team. Candidates with a strong background in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, statistics, neuroscience, linguistics, or math, and who have experience in programing, software engineering, signal detection, and machine learning are highly encouraged to apply. Applications should include a cover...
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Hasson Lab
Requisition # 2025-20352
Date Posted 5 days ago(1/10/2025 1:16 PM)
The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics seeks applicants for a Research Specialist I to join the laboratory of Professor Coleen Murphy. Professor Murphy’s research is centered on understanding the molecular mechanisms of aging, using the model system C. elegans as well as mammalian tissue culture.   The research specialist will be expected to assist with experiment preparation and execution and perform general lab support duties. Salary will include the full benefits package. This is a one-year term position, with the possibility of renewal based on available funding and satisfactory performance. The work location for this position is in-person on campus at Princeton University.
Department
Integrative Genomics
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Murphy Lab
Requisition # 2025-20331
Date Posted 1 week ago(1/7/2025 11:26 AM)
The Department of Sociology at Princeton University seeks applicants for a full-time post-baccalaureate research specialist position. Successful candidates will have a background in social science or the humanities. The research specialist will work in the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, an interdisciplinary research team who has built the first-ever national database of evictions in America (evictionlab.org). The Eviction Lab is currently working on a large number of studies on housing instability, political economy, and inequality in America. The research specialist will work directly with Professor Matthew Desmond, the Principal Investigator of the Eviction Lab and the Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, on a new book project on child welfare and poverty. The work...
Department
Sociology
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Eviction Lab
Requisition # 2024-20309
Date Posted 3 weeks ago(12/23/2024 8:55 AM)
The Mesa lab is seeking a highly motivated, organized Lab Manager for a full-time position within the Department of Molecular Biology. Our lab combines expertise in immunology, stem cell biology, and multiphoton microscopy to uncover the dynamic interplay of immune and stem cells that drives complex multi-tissue regeneration, which can be leveraged to overcome current limitations in human wound healing and regenerative medicine. We aim to foster a collaborative and joyful lab environment that will support people interested in doing fun science, learning new skills/concepts, and advancing your professional goals. Strong organization, time-management, record keeping, and communication skills are essential. The work performed by the successful candidate will be foundational to all lab...
Department
Molecular Biology
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Mesa Lab
Requisition # 2024-20268
Date Posted 1 month ago(12/17/2024 3:23 PM)
Princeton University's Neuroscience Institute seeks applicants for a Research Assistant position in a premiere research laboratory whose work focuses on neural circuits for social communication and sensorimotor integration using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system (see murthylab.princeton.edu). Research in the lab employs state-of-the-art neuroscience approaches, including quantitative behavior analyses, computational modeling, neural recordings, connectomics, molecular biology, and genetic tools. We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard-working individual who has a willingness to learn and acquire new skills (and a demonstrated track record in learning new techniques). The RA will work with lab members on conducting behavioral and neural imaging experiments, and on analyzing...
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Murthy Lab
Requisition # 2024-20248
Date Posted 1 month ago(12/17/2024 1:43 PM)
Princeton University’s Office of Population Research (OPR) at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) is looking to hire two full-time pre-doctoral research assistants (Senior Research Specialists). The positions entail close collaboration with professor Florencia Torche on research projects related to stratification and mobility, human capital formation, and educational opportunity. The position involves a variety of tasks that provide excellent preparation for graduate school, such as conducting social sciences research using econometric tools, managing complex datasets, summarizing research findings, and editing research papers. The opportunity to actively participate in fieldwork in Latin America is also a possibility for the position. In addition to working closely with...
Department
Population Research
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-20242
Date Posted 1 month ago(12/6/2024 11:26 AM)
The Ghanim Laboratory is seeking a highly motivated research specialist for a full-time position beginning January 2025. The Ghanim lab aims to understand how to how two mobile elements, LINE-1 and Alu, move through the human genome at the molecular level. The lab uses a combination of nucleoprotein biochemistry, in vivo assays, and cryo-EM to characterize the lifecycle of these elements. For the first three months the research specialist will work alongside the Dr. Ghanim to establish the lab. Responsibilities include helping to order reagents, order equipment, digitizing lab protocols and organizing the lab space. The research specialist will also work to prepare lab reagents and maintain insect cell stocks. As the lab becomes established, the research specialist work with the Dr....
Department
Molecular Biology
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Ghanim Lab
Requisition # 2024-19720
Date Posted 1 month ago(12/6/2024 9:19 AM)
Based in Princeton’s School of Public & International Affairs and under the direction of Prof. Atif Mian, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy & Finance (JRCPPF) promotes research and teaching at the intersection of finance, macroeconomics and policy. We seek to hire talented and motivated predoctoral research specialists to assist multiple economics and finance faculty working with the center. This position is ideal for graduating seniors or master’s degree students interested in economics or finance, who have plans for doctoral studies in two years. Previous research specialists have been accepted to top Ph.D. programs including at Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Northwestern, London School of Economics, Columbia, NYU, Barcelona GSE, and U. of Maryland. This is a...
Department
Schl of Public & Int'l Affairs
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Application Deadline
3/31/2025
Requisition # 2024-20177
Date Posted 2 months ago(11/19/2024 9:46 AM)
A Research Specialist position is available in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. The Falkner Lab focuses on neural circuit dynamics in subcortical circuits during social behavior. The successful candidate will manage day-to-day laboratory operations, including routine animal care (e.g. assist lab members with mouse breeding) and work with the researchers to design and perform experiments. We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic, and hard-working individual. This is a one-year position with the possibility of renewal contingent upon funding availability and performance.
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Falkner Lab
Requisition # 2024-20051
Date Posted 2 months ago(10/31/2024 12:43 PM)
Petascale EM Imaging Specialist The Princeton Neuroscience Institute is searching for an accomplished scientist to lead acquisitions of petascale image datasets via volume electron microscopy (EM). The Institute is the only site in the world hosting beam deflection transmission EM and multibeam scanning EM instruments, both of which have sufficient throughput for petascale connectomics. The Institute leads the FlyWire Consortium, which in 2023 released the first connectome of an adult brain, that of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. The Institute is a key performer in the NIH BRAIN CONNECTS program, which aims to scale connectomics up to the whole mouse brain.
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Seung Lab
Requisition # 2024-20033
Date Posted 3 months ago(10/29/2024 4:20 PM)
Princeton Neuroscience Institute is looking for an experienced animal research technician to support the PNI marmoset neuroscience research program for the Krienen Lab. The technician must have excellent references that highlight their research or veterinary experience, their organization skills, attention to detail, and their willingness to work as part of a research team. In particular, the individual should have excellent interpersonal skills as they will be a primary liaison across the research lab, and veterinary and regulatory personnel. The ideal candidate would be motivated to learn and able to accommodate the health needs of the animals with a flexible schedule as required. This is a one-year term position with the possibility of renewal.
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Krienen Lab
Requisition # 2024-19996
Date Posted 3 months ago(10/23/2024 10:06 AM)
The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) is an interdisciplinary center at Princeton University. The center is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences. Our researchers work to better understand and improve the relationship between technology and society, with a particular focus on AI, Data Science and Society, Privacy and Security, and Digital Infrastructure and Platforms.  The CITP Emerging Scholars program is designed to train scholars for an impactful career in the field of public interest technology.  The program provides intensive research and work experience, coursework, and mentoring. The Emerging Scholars program is for people who have received a bachelor's degree (or will receive one by the time of appointment) in...
Department
Center for Info Tech Policy
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-19776
Date Posted 4 months ago(9/11/2024 11:53 AM)
The Seung & Murthy Lab at Princeton Neuroscience Institute aims to make discoveries by mapping the brain. The Lab is using high-throughput serial electron microscopy (SEM) to completely image multiple brains and nervous systems. The massive data sets will be utilized to reconstruct neuronal circuits, ultimately culminating in the complete connectome—or wiring diagram—of the brain. The connectome will provide the most complete anatomical description of a complex nervous system to date in an organism uniquely suited to combine this anatomical information with functional imaging, electrophysiology, quantitative behavioral assays, precise genetic manipulation of identified cell types and computational modeling. Thus we expect these circuit-level reconstructions to inform specific biological...
Department
Princeton Neuroscience Inst
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-19697
Date Posted 5 months ago(8/20/2024 3:41 PM)
The International Economics Section (IES) has an opening for a Research Assistant (i.e., Senior Research Specialist). This position offers an ideal transitional job for recent graduates who are interested in international economics and are considering further studies in economics. It offers the opportunity to see what a career doing frontier academic research involves. The successful candidate will gain experience working with some of the world’s leading researchers in international economics. They will be expected to assemble and manage data sets, to program and simulate non-linear models, and to assist faculty members in all aspects of their research. This is a one-year term position with the possibility of renewal for a second year, contingent upon continued funding and...
Department
Economics
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-19657
Date Posted 5 months ago(8/13/2024 4:10 PM)
The Princeton Program in Public Finance is looking to hire several full-time pre-doctoral fellows (Senior Research Specialists). The position involves responsibilities that serve as excellent preparation for Ph.D. programs in economics, including data processing and analysis, survey design, simulation techniques, literature reviews, and presentations. Research Specialists will work with Professors Henrik Kleven, Ilyana Kuziemko and Evan Soltas along with their co-authors, on topics such as income and wealth inequality, entrepreneurship, gender equality, regional economic development, political economy, and the analysis of tax subsidies on the housing market and social insurance policies. The position involves empirical analysis, including more sophisticated statistical modeling,...
Department
Griswold Center
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-19642
Date Posted 5 months ago(8/8/2024 3:19 PM)
The Lynch Lab is seeking a highly organized and motivated Lab Manager for a full-time position within the Ludwig Princeton Branch. The lab aims to establish a mechanistic understanding of how diet, obesity and systemic metabolism impact the immune system and ability of the immune system to detect and kill cancer. Reciprocally, we study how the immune system influences whole body metabolism. We foster an inspiring, diverse and collaborative lab environment that values and supports each other, makes science enjoyable, and fosters growth to become a better scientist. We welcome applicants who share our collaborative philosophy and enjoy working in a team-orientated setting. Attention to detail, precision, good record keeping, organization, time-management and communication skills are...
Department
Ludwig Princeton Branch
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory
Name of Lab
Lynch Lab
Requisition # 2024-19318
Date Posted 7 months ago(6/28/2024 10:10 AM)
Seeking a Research Assistant interested in algorithmic mechanism design. The faculty supervisor pursues research in these areas: auction design, combinatorial auctions, blockchain protocols, algorithms under uncertainty, and economics and computation.  This position is temporary.
Department
Computer Science
Job Type
Temporary
Category
Research and Laboratory
Requisition # 2024-19081
Date Posted 7 months ago(6/4/2024 8:19 AM)
Princeton University’s Bendheim Center for Finance (BCF) is seeking a Senior Research Specialist. BCF is at the forefront of research and education in Money and Finance, with the mission to serve our global society. As an interdisciplinary center, it draws its faculty from various departments across Princeton’s campus. New technology has profound implications on the role of money and the international financial architecture. BCF aspires to be part of this process by developing and applying novel research tools and methods. BCF’s educational programs equip students with cutting-edge insights and tools. Finally, through its public and policy outreach, BCF aims to bring an important contribution to the broader public and policy debate on macroeconomics, money, and finance.
Department
Bendheim Center for Finance
Job Type
Full-Time
Category
Research and Laboratory

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