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Dear Colleagues:

In collaboration with Professors Duckworth at Penn and D'Mello at Notre Dame, we are looking for a Post-Doctoral Fellow with a strong quantitative background and highly motivated to publish. This position will be 100% at Penn. I believe this position will be very relevant for individuals with training in industrial-organizational psychology and OBHR. 

Our team is working toward cutting-edge measurement and large scale data analysis. We are very publication focused and have published in outlets such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, and Organizational Research Methods. We expect the post-doc to be involved in multiple publishable projects.

Please forward this to all individuals who may be interested.

My thanks,

Louis

Professor Angela Duckworth at the University of Pennsylvania seeks a Post-Doctoral Fellow to lead an exciting new project on the predictors of college persistence. We have recently created a dataset of 500,000 applicants that includes standard academic measures (e.g., SAT, ACT, GPA), biodata (e.g., extracurricular/work experience), and all other information available in a standard college application. 

Linked to this data are college persistence and graduation outcomes.

This work, joint with a team of computer scientists, psychologists, and professional educators, will require an individual with substantive expertise in employing advanced quantitative methods. Results will be published in a variety of psychology, educational, and research methods venues.

• Analyzing data using advanced statistical modeling

• First-authoring publications for top-tier peer-reviewed publications

• Presenting findings at national scientific conferences

• Ph.D. from an accredited university in psychology, economics, or a related social sciences field

• Advanced quantitative data analysis and management skills

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Demonstrated proficiency in programming using statistical software (e.g., Stata, SAS, SPSS, or R)

• Demonstrated experience preparing conference presentations, research findings, and manuscripts for submission to peer-reviewed journals

• A two-year commitment required, but opportunities available to stay for a third year

Please be prepared to submit a cover letter, CV, names and contact information for three references, and two reprints/preprints. Note: There is not a specific section to submit the manuscripts, so please add them to the end of your CV. Salary will be commensurate with credentials and experience. The University of 

Pennsylvania is an EOE/Affirmative Action Employer.