• Job Type: Support Staff - Non-Union
• Bargaining Unit:
• Regular/Temporary: Temporary
• End Date if Temporary: 5/31/2025
• Hours Per Week: 10
• Standard Work Schedule:
• Building: Jerome L. Greene Science Center
• Salary Range: $25.00 per hour - $25.00 per hour

Position Summary

Columbia University's Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute brings together world-class scientists across academic disciplines conducting pioneering research to transform our understanding of how the brain works - and gives rise to mind and behavior. The Institute fosters a collaborative and inclusive environment across 50+ labs, advancing insights into human health by exploring how the brain develops, performs, endures and recovers.

At the Zuckerman Institute, we are committed to becoming a more inclusive, equitable and diverse place of scientific discovery and support a culture of respect. Promoting diversity in science will help drive the transformative science that can change the world.

Situated in the Jerome L. Greene Science Center on Columbia's Manhattanville campus, the state-of-the-art building offers an environment where the highest level of scholarly scientific research takes place on a daily basis, with the benefit of being located in the heart of New York, one of the world's most vibrant and culturally rich cities.

The Zuckerman Institute is seeking a flexible and highly motivated individual to serve as part-time Research Staff Assistant within the Litwin-Kumar Lab at the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. The goal of the Center is to establish, through the quality of the research, the excellence of its trainees, and the impact of its visitor, dissemination, and outreach programs, a new cooperative paradigm that will move neuroscience to unprecedented levels of discovery and understanding. The group will ensure mentoring of the trainee in terms of learning to use state-of-the art software and data analysis techniques and in terms of research and career in modern neuroscience. The PI will guide the trainee in the choice of analysis method but the trainee will be welcome to develop or use alternative methods. The PI will coordinate the project in collaboration with the trainee.

This is a temporary part-time 10 hpw grant funded role.

Responsibilities

• Under heavy supervision of the PI, assists in analyzing large neuroscientific datasets using computer software programs.
• Support lab activities by maintaining inventory and chemical stocks and cleaning lab equipment.
• Other duties assigned by the PI.

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required. 0 -3 months of experience in a research environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• The ideal candidate must show an ability to work independently with accuracy and attention to detail. They must be flexible in nature and exhibit a willingness to learn new techniques and function in a fast-paced and changing work environment. They must possess strong organizational skills, keep excellent notes, show sound judgment, and have a collaborative style that fosters teamwork and cooperation as well as the ability to work independently within a diverse and dynamic team environment.