SPEA - School of Public and Environmental Affairs

We seek candidates for a Research Associate position, which can be fulfilled by a post-PhD or post-Masters student to work with Dr. Shahzeen Attari. General research interests include perceptions of resource consumption, motivations in real world social dilemmas, self/other biases in energy consumption behaviors, and smart meters and privacy issues. This appointment is a one year appointment with one additional year renewal based upon performance.

The successful candidate should have research experience in decision making under uncertainty, survey design and analysis, and behavioral experiments in the context of resource use. A strong grounding in psychology and statistics is highly desirable. The candidate will be expected work on ongoing research projects, run experiments, and design and implement surveys. The candidate will be also expected to assist in writing papers and grants, and begin new lines of research.

Please submit an electronic application (consisting of a cover letter describing your research interests, a CV, relevant courses taken, up to three reprints of publications, and contact information of three references) as a single PDF file to Shahzeen Attari (sattari@indiana.edu) or a hard copy to:

Review of applications will begin September 15, 2012 and continue until the position is filled.

For more information see: SPEA’s website http://www.indiana.edu/%7espea and Shahzeen Attari’s website http://mypage.iu.edu/~sattari.

Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, Educator and Contractor, M/F/D and strongly committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and nominations of women, persons of color, applicants with disabilities and members of other underrepresented groups.