PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Cognitive Science in United States

Fully funded master's position in Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Wyoming, USA, with Dr. Jaden Tatum in the Department of Family & Consumer Sciences. The thesis will evaluate regional agricultural residues, including their volume flows, material properties, and valorization potential. The project also includes pilot work developing mushroom cultivation substrates. This opportunity is relevant to students interested in food science, human nutrition, agricultural biomass, mus...

Purdue University's Cognition and Learning Laboratory, directed by Dr. Jeffrey D. Karpicke, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. The postdoctoral scholar will join a collaborative research team studying learning, memory, cognition, and language in children and adults. Research will be conducted in both laboratory and real-world educational settings, with opportunities to contribute to experimental design, data collection, ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate in the Mechanical and Biological Engineering Del Vecchio Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The researcher will conduct cutting-edge work in mammalian synthetic biology , with a focus on chromatin regulation . The project aims to uncover the molecular principles governing epigenetic memory and use this knowledge to program user-defined cellular memories for cell engineering applications. Responsibilities inclu...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Lung Immunology at the Allen Lab, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States. The Allen Lab is recruiting a highly motivated postdoctoral scientist to investigate how the lung parenchyma shapes immune responses across the lifespan. The research focuses on aging, tissue-resident stromal cells, stromal–immune circuits, inflammatory T-cell responses, tissue homeostasis, and susceptibility to inflammatory disease. The successful researcher will lead pr...

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar for translational cancer research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine. The scholar will join Dr. Liying Zhang’s research group, which investigates molecular biomarkers and develops clinically relevant molecular assays to improve cancer patient outcomes. Key research areas include DNA damage response pathways, DNA repair and homologous recombination, liqu...

Funded PhD opportunity in Anthropology, AI, and Crowdsourced Mapping at Oregon State University, USA. The Applied Anthropology PhD opportunity focuses on research combining anthropology, artificial intelligence, and crowdsourced mapping. The work may suit applicants interested in digital methods, community-generated geographic data, qualitative and quantitative research, and field-based anthropology. Applicants should have a master’s degree in anthropology or a related field, English proficiency...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Infection Immunodiagnostics and Immunopathogenesis The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral fellow for Dr. Jagjit Yadav’s Immunopathogenesis/Immunotoxicology laboratory. The project focuses on immunology research in mycobacterial lung disease, with emphasis on identifying immune determinants, epitopes, immunopeptidomes, and immunogen-specific host biomarkers associated with disease pathogenesis. The s...

The University of Nebraska Medical Center is accepting applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Surgery-Transplant within the College of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The successful candidate will develop novel nanofibrous materials for tissue regeneration, including skin regeneration, and local drug delivery. Responsibilities include contributing to experimental design, performing in vitro and in vivo experiments, working closely with the p...

Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute seeks a full-time, residential Postdoctoral Associate / Dr. Richard Whittington Postdoctoral Fellow in Medical Humanities , with a focus on medical ethics. The two-year appointment runs from July 1, 2027 to June 30, 2029 and is based in Houston, Texas, with work at TMC Helix Park and teaching on the Rice campus. The role is hybrid, requiring office attendance approximately three days per week. The fellow will join an interdisciplinary commu...