Postdoctoral Scholar

US-OR-Portland

Requisition ID: 2026-39884
Position Category: Postdoctoral
Job Type: Postdoctoral
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Posting Department: Behavioral Neuroscience
Posting Salary Range: $66,932 - $81,282 per year, with offer based on experience, education and internal equity
Posting FTE: 1.00
Posting Schedule: Monday - Friday; occasional evenings and weekends as needed to complete work
Posting Hours: varies; typically 9:00am - 6:00pm
HR Mission: School of Medicine
Drug Testable: No

Department Overview

Postdoctoral position is open in behavioral neuroscience laboratory with a focus on the molecular mechanisms underlying sex differences in substance use disorder. The postdoctoral fellow will work closely with the Principal Investigator and other lab members understand the functional relevance of sex differences in the brain’s reward circuitry as well as design and execute their own independent research circuitry. Techniques include chemogenetics, retrograde tracing, immunohistochemistry and fiber photometry, RNA- and ChIP-seq, behavioral assays and other cellular and molecular neuroscience approaches.

Function/Duties of Position

• Planning and designing research experiments; establishing priorities and schedules; obtaining cost estimates.
• Data collection, processing and analysis, including statistical analyses, presentation of project results, and producing written documents (abstracts, manuscripts) on the result of analyses.
  • Includes contributing to preparation of grant proposals to NIH and private foundations.
• Training new staff, graduate students, and student volunteers.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Ph.D. in relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Neuroscience, molecular biology, Psychology or related field.
• Ability to code in python and R.
• Familiar with rodent behavior.

Additional Details

Occasional weekend work may be required.
Working with research animals required.
Research assistant will help general lab maintenance including ordering and setting up equipment, as well as running experiments and analyzing data for the lab.