Lab Name: Brain Development and Social Cognition Lab
Supervisor Name: Eric Nelson
Position Title: Postdoctoral Fellowship
Description:
Drs. Scott Langenecker (Ohio State University), Katie Burkhouse (Penn State University), and Eric Nelson (Nationwide Children’s Hospital) offer the opportunity for a postdoctoral fellowship at the intersection of adolescent development, mental illness, and brain maturation. The fellow will have the opportunity to work on three R01s in early, middle, and late phases of completion. Projects are focused on brain-based correlates of rumination and negative emotion in children and adolescents and pubertal suppression. The fellowship will enable developmental clinical experience and acquisition of skills in neuroimaging analysis. A PhD in psychology or neuroscience is required and prior experience in neuroimaging research is preferred. Position to begin in the first quarter of 2026. Please send CV to Dr. Eric Nelson for further information: eric.nelson@nationwidechildrens.org