Open postdoctoral fellowship in speech science and major depression, Northwestern University

Applications are invited to immediately fill a postdoctoral fellowship position on a National Institute of Health grant entitled Motoric features of the voice as indicators of psychomotor agitation and retardation in current and remitted MDD. This project examines whether speech acoustic measures can be used to detect motor symptoms of major depression. The position is open; applications will be review immediately, and continue until the position is filled.

The postdoctoral fellow will be supervised by Matt Goldrick (Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University), working closely in collaboration with researchers at Northwestern (Stewart Shankman, Vijay Mittal) studying serious mental illness (e.g., affective disorders, schizophrenia). The fellow will help this team deploy automated workflows for collection and analysis of scripted and spontaneous speech collected both in and outside of the lab. The position will provide opportunities for speech scientists to grow their multidisciplinary skill set both in the science of mental health and automated acoustic analysis.

The position is for one year, with the potential for renewal for a second year. The pay rate will follow the NIH rate for new postdoctoral fellows ($63,480 per year). The position should start as soon as possible. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics, Communication Sciences and Disorders / Speech and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science, or a related field by the start date.

Applications and email inquiries about the position should be submitted to matt-goldrick@northwestern.edu. Applications should include a CV (including contact information and links to written work) and the names of two references (letters will be requested after initial review of applications). Applications will be reviewed immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

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