If you are interested in social context, public policy, and “the Forest” but also want to be grounded in biological markers and “the bark” this lab may be a fit for you. The life history lab especially invites individuals from and interested in marginalized and or vulnerable communities.
Graduate Students
Interested in our research? The Life History Lab is currently searching for graduate students. Students would enter a PhD program in Human Development with a focus on neuroscience at Cornell University.
A successful student will:
- Learn to consider context and ecology even while looking at biological markers
- Ask theoretically grounded questions, preferably with multiple competing hypotheses
- Have a strong ability to work in multidisciplinary teams and “translate” how other disciplines talk about similar work
- Engage meaningfully with questions of social welfare
- Learn fMRI from study conception to design, running, and analysis
- Use scripts and computer science to facilitate science
- Integrate methods and concepts from other disciplines in an evolutionarily grounded way
- Develop communication skills for both experts and lay audiences and everyone in between
- Commit to basic science while keeping an eye towards translation and application
If interested please e-mail Prof. Gonzalez, and check out the graduate program .
Undergraduate students, we need YOU
Undergraduate students are encouraged to apply if:
1. You are curious about how developmental context shapes our adult selves
2. You are interested in neuroimaging and psychophysiology as bio-measures
3. You are excited about applying BASH, Python, and Matlab to research
4. You have or are cultivating a growth mindset requiring curiosity and perseverance
5. You are willing and able to put in 5-10 hours of work per week (changes throughout the semester based on studies running).
But seriously, most important are 1 and 4 with absolute honestly about 5. Join us!
E-mail our research coordinator, Xinyi Deng at xd234@cornell.edu