This Research Associate post represents a unique opportunity to join leaders from the  Autism Innovative Medicine Studies – 2 – Trials (AIMS-2-TRIALS) research consortium, the world’s largest autism research consortium, based in the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN).

 

The successful candidate will work on multimodal projects to identify sensory and cognitive biomarkers derived from behavioural experiments in autism. The role will work on analysing psychophysics and cognitive data from sub-projects of the AIMS-2-TRIALS consortium including drug studies, and the longitudinal autism research project (LEAP) cohort to develop normative trajectories and clustering approaches to subgroup autistic individuals.  This will include supporting dissemination with stakeholders (including EMA, academic partners, media organisations, charities, and the broader autism community).

 

This is a full-time post offered on a fixed term contract until 30th November 2026.

 

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the  Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

 

 

1.    Experience in working with other programming languages (e.g. PsychoPy).

2.    Expertise working with the Cortical Metrics Brain Gauge device.

3.    Expertise working with EEG.

4.    Expertise working with autistic people.

 

* Please note that this is a PhD level role but candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered. In these circumstances the appointment will be made at Grade 5, spine point 30 with the title of Research Assistant. Upon confirmation of the award of the PhD, the job title will become Research Associate and the salary will increase to Grade 6.

 

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.