Founded in 1856, University of Maryland, College Park is the state’s flagship institution. Our 1,250-acre College Park campus is just minutes away from Washington, D.C., and the nexus of the nation’s legislative, executive, and judicial centers of power. This unique proximity to business and technology leaders, federal departments and agencies, and a myriad of research entities, embassies, think tanks, cultural centers, and non-profit organizations is simply unparalleled. Synergistic opportunities for our faculty and students abound and are virtually limitless in the nation’s capital and surrounding areas. The University is committed to attracting and retaining outstanding and diverse faculty and staff that will enhance our stature of preeminence in our three missions of teaching, scholarship, and full engagement in our community, the state of Maryland, and in the world.

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Offers are contingent on providing proof of employment eligibility in the United States no more than 3 days after the initial start date. If this proof is not provided within this timeframe, the offer may be rescinded or employment terminated.

The Maryland Language Science Center (MLSC) seeks to recruit an outstanding postdoctoral researcher for our inaugural Fellowship for Postdoctoral Scholars. The goal of the fellowship is to support early-career researchers as they establish their own research program, and develop new, innovative, interdisciplinary connections within our community. Fellows are expected to pursue collaborative relationships with faculty in multiple departments and disciplines at the University of Maryland. These collaborations may take different forms: engaging in research projects with multiple faculty independently, generating new collaborative research that brings multiple faculty together, and/or contributing to interdisciplinary discussion and reading groups.

MLSC is home to the largest and most integrated language science community in North America, spanning 7 colleges and nearly 20 different units across the university. Researchers have ready access to relevant resources to support a range of research programs including equipment and facilities (e.g., eye-tracking, EEG, fNIRS, MEG, fMRI), state-of-art computational resources (e.g., Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Engineering’s Nexus GPU cluster), and recruitment databases (e.g., Infant and Child Studies Consortium, established community partnerships). MLSC coordinates a language science research lab at the Planet Word Museum in downtown Washington, DC. UMD language scientists also benefit from close proximity to other universities (e.g. Gallaudet, Georgetown, Howard) and government research labs (e.g. NIH), in the Washington, D.C. metro area.

Education:
A PhD in any relevant field, including neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, education, communication sciences and disorders, philosophy, computer science, or other cognitive science disciplines. Applicants must have formally completed all requirements of the PhD degree and provide a copy of their diploma at the time of appointment.

Required:
Applicants must submit a research statement, CV, and contact information for at least three references.

The research statement (3-5 pages, single-spaced) should outline the applicant’s past research, a proposed plan for research during the postdoc, and how the proposed research will contribute to the applicant’s career. The statement should specifically reference at least three faculty at the University of Maryland that the applicant would be interested in working with. Applicants are strongly encouraged to reach out to potential faculty mentors to discuss potential research and collaborations prior to submitting an application. The research statement should be written for a broad audience of language scientists: the selection committee will include researchers from multiple disciplinary backgrounds, which may not include the applicant’s own field.

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