6 social behavioral sciences jobs found in Philadelphia, PA

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: Jul 09, 2026 Deadline: Jul 09, 2028 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time The Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the tenure track. Expertise is required in basic neuroscience. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Teaching responsibilities may include participating in medical school basic science education as well as graduate training through affiliation with one or more of the inter-departmental, interdisciplinary graduate groups of the Biomedical Graduate Studies (BGS) program. Research or scholarship responsibilities may include developing an independent research program, synergistic with the scientific interests of one or more research institutes and centers, and other laboratories in the department, school, and university. Special attention will be given to...

Assistant Professor- Academic Clinician, Pediatric Behavioral Health (CHOP) Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: Feb 18, 2026 Deadline: Feb 18, 2028 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for several Assistant Professor positions in the non-tenure academic clinician track. Expertise is required in the specific area of Pediatric Psychology. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Applicants must have completed an accredited predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric or child clinical psychology. Licensure as a Psychologist in the State of Pennsylvania is required prior to beginning the position. Teaching responsibilities may include teaching and training activities through our APA-accredited clinical child psychology internship training program, as well as with psychology and psychiatry trainees at...

Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions (Tenure Track) 2025-2026 Location: 3730 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA. USA Open Date: Oct 13, 2025 Deadline: The Operations, Information and Decisions Department of the Wharton School is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the areas of information systems or operations management. Our faculty is comprised of scholars with a diverse set of backgrounds and interests, and we encourage applicants with degrees in a business discipline, social sciences, engineering, AI, or computational social science, among others. More information about the Department is available at: https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/ Qualifications Demonstrated ability or potential for high quality research and teaching are important. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by June 30, 2027 is acceptable) from an accredited institution. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2026....

Research Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Location: Philadelphia, PA Open Date: Nov 05, 2025 Deadline: Nov 05, 2027 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time The Department of Neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure research track. Expertise is required in the specific area of state-of-the-art recording and manipulation techniques, including high-density electrophysiology, optogenetics, and computational analysis of neural data and proficiency with behavioral learning paradigms. Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree. Research or scholarship responsibilities may include the development of an independent research program focused on the circuit-level mechanisms underlying sleep regulation in the mammalian brain. Candidates should have a distinguished record of scholarship, evidenced by publications on in vivo electrophysiology and on the neural control and...

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions The Wharton School UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA The Operations, Information and Decisions Department of the Wharton School is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the areas of information systems or operations management. Our faculty is comprised of scholars with a diverse set of backgrounds and interests, and we encourage applicants with degrees in a business discipline, social sciences, engineering, AI, or computational social science, among others. Demonstrated ability or potential for high quality research and teaching are important. Applicants must have a Ph.D. (expected completion by June 30, 2027 is acceptable) from an accredited institution. The appointment is expected to begin July 1, 2026. More information about the Department is available at: https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/ Interested individuals should complete and submit an online application via our secure website, and must...

    The Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) at Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the PIIRS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for the 2027-28 academic year. As a leading global institution in interdisciplinary research on international issues, PIIRS is dedicated to advancing innovative scholarship that addresses the world's most pressing challenges. The PIIRS Postdoctoral Fellows Program is integral to that mission. We will award up to four postdoctoral fellowships to our 2027-28 cohort. PIIRS seeks recent PhDs in the Social Sciences who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship, congruent with the Institute's intellectual focus, that simultaneously advances theoretical debates in their disciplinary field; creatively speaks to and engages with a multidisciplinary audience; and deepens substantive regional knowledge of specific places. Appointments will be made at the rank of...