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  • Welcome to FIU’s Office of Postdoctoral Scholar Services

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As a university with the highest level Carnegie Classification (R1: Doctoral Institutions – Highest Research Activity), FIU is deeply committed to ensuring that postdoctoral fellows obtain the advanced education, training, and career preparation needed to excel in academia, public service, industry, or the private or nonprofit sectors. The mission of the Office of Postdoctoral Scholar Services is to support, enhance, and promote postdoctoral training. FIU recognizes that postdoctoral scholars contribute to the vitality and creativity of the university community and that robust postdoctoral preparation and training programs heighten FIU’s reputation as a top-tier research university.

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The Office of Postdoctoral Scholar Services serves as FIU’s central resource center for information, support, and guidance to postdoctoral fellows, faculty mentors, and the departments and colleges involved in the university’s postdoctoral training initiatives. In collaboration with other divisions and units of the university, the Office of Postdoctoral Scholar Services coordinates specialized assistance for postdoctoral education and training, such as:
• Informing interested postdoctoral candidates about the application process
• Assisting faculty with the recruitment, hiring, mentoring, and professional development of postdoctoral scholars
• Educating postdoctoral scholars and the campus community about University policies, postdoctoral rights, and other concerns related to postdoctoral scholars
• Supporting postdoctoral scholars in their efforts to secure external funding, fellowships, and/or faculty awards
• Offering career development programming
• Fostering a strong and engaged postdoctoral community at FIU

Institution: Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Deadline: Open until filled
Salary: Commensurate with experience
Description: The STEM Transformation Institute and the Physics Education Research Group at Florida International University seeks two postdoctoral researchers in physics education, engineering education, science education, or a closely related field. The first position starts in January 2014 and is particularly allotted for work on an ongoing NSF funded research project involving analysis of case studies of high school physics classes, implementing experimental studies within similar classes, and designing a professional development course for high school physics teachers. The responsibilities of the successful applicant will include coordination and participation in all aspects of the research including presenting/publishing findings. A second postdoctoral research position beginning in August 2014 is for integrating network analysis techniques with qualitative and behavioral analyses in the study of physics student retention and persistence. More information about the STEM Transformation Institute can be found athttp://stem.fiu.edu and for the Physics Education Group athttp://casgroup.fiu.edu/fiuperg.
Eligibility: We will consider PhD graduates with expertise in education research (and strong content background in science/physics/engineering) or traditional areas of STEM research (particularly network science) who have experience in conducting education research.
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Application: Please electronically submit a letter of interest, CV, brief statement of research interests, 1-2 publication reprints, and names of 3 references to eric.brewe@fiu.edu.
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