Joining the lab
Graduate Students & Postdocs
If you are interested in becoming a graduate student or post-doctoral researcher in the Comparative Cognition Lab, please email Dr. Federico Rossano at frossano@ucsd.edu.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Research assistants (RAs) will gain research experience by working with graduate students.
Students may assist with:
- behavioral data coding
- recruiting and testing child and/or adult participants
- collecting observational primate data at the zoo and/or testing primates
- reading, reviewing, and discussing relevant theoretical and empirical papers
Students can choose to work with children or animals.
While the position in the lab is unpaid, students can get class credit for participating in the lab. There may be eventual opportunities for paid positions for students who have experience in the lab and have shown they are reliable.
Requirements:
- ability to commit 10 hours a week, including our CCL’s weekly 1hr lab meeting
- comfortable working independently
- good time management skills
- will treat position in the lab as seriously as a job
Preferred but not required:
- prior experience working with children/animals
- prior experience working in a research lab
- interested in completing a Senior Thesis that will eventually lead to a project
- have taken COGS 14A or an equivalent research methods class
Reach out to one of our grad students during one of their office hours.
Contact cogsci-cclab@ucsd.edu if you have questions.