We are hiring SUMMER INTERNS and a Post-Doctoral Fellow!
See detailed descriptions of the positions below:
Summer Intern
Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Louisville
Dr. Levinson, the Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab at the University of Louisville (UofL), is hiring several summer clinical research interns. The position will involve working a full 40 hours per week for 8-10 weeks, a summer stipend, and attendance at all lab and staff meetings. The position may be completed either in-person, or remote. Summer interns will be expected to complete at least one co- or first-author publication or abstract presentation, take a leadership role on at least one lab project, and help with other projects that are aligned with their goals and interests.
This role may also involve working on grant proposals, conducting diagnostic assessments, assisting with data preparation, assisting with institutional review board protocols, assisting with our ongoing NIH funded studies as needed, and working with a large interdisciplinary team at UofL.
The summer intern will work very closely with their direct supervisor, Dr. Levinson, and the whole lab on a day-to-day basis. Minimum experience is at least two years of undergraduate study in psychology or a related field. Research experience is a must. This position is ideal for someone wanting to go to, or currently attending, graduate school in a health-related field. More information on mentors looking to work with interns this summer can be found below.
Interested applicants should send their CV, a cover letter, and names and contact for 3 references to [email protected] and [email protected]. In your materials, please also specify with which EAT Lab member you are most interested in working.
We look forward to reviewing your application materials! The deadline to submit materials is February 1st, or until the positions are filled.
EAT Lab team members looking to mentor summer interns in 2025 include:
Graduate Students:
Savannah Hooper (she/her) & Avantika Kapadia (she/her)
"Avantika and Savannah are second year graduate students interested in co-mentoring a summer intern on a manuscript and/or conference poster. Their interests cover a range of topics within eating disorders research, including obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorder co-morbidity, eating disorders within ethnic/racial minorities, weight stigma as a risk and maintenance factor for eating disorders, and interests in restrictive eating behaviors."
Loie Faulkner (she/her) & Luis Sandoval-Araujo (he/him)
Luis is a second year graduate student interested in understanding the connection between early childhood anxiety and later eating pathology development. Luis primarily explores this overarching problem using computational methods such as network analysis and machine learning. Long term, he hope that exploring this connection will lead to improved theories of eating pathology development and eventually inform prevention efforts for individuals at risk of developing eating pathology. This summer, third year graduate student, Loie Faulkner, and Luis plan to put together the procedures and processes for analyzing the psychophysiological data we are collecting in the Youth Eating Study, an NIMH-funded R01 study following girls and their mothers over the course of two years to find out potential physiological, behavioral, and affective risk factors for the development of eating pathology. They are seeking an undergraduate student who would be interested in learning about child anxiety, eating disorder development, and the usage of psychophysiological data. Prior experience in programming in R or Python would be ideal but is not required!
Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Louisville
Dr. Levinson, the Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab at the University of Louisville (UofL), is hiring several summer clinical research interns. The position will involve working a full 40 hours per week for 8-10 weeks, a summer stipend, and attendance at all lab and staff meetings. The position may be completed either in-person, or remote. Summer interns will be expected to complete at least one co- or first-author publication or abstract presentation, take a leadership role on at least one lab project, and help with other projects that are aligned with their goals and interests.
This role may also involve working on grant proposals, conducting diagnostic assessments, assisting with data preparation, assisting with institutional review board protocols, assisting with our ongoing NIH funded studies as needed, and working with a large interdisciplinary team at UofL.
The summer intern will work very closely with their direct supervisor, Dr. Levinson, and the whole lab on a day-to-day basis. Minimum experience is at least two years of undergraduate study in psychology or a related field. Research experience is a must. This position is ideal for someone wanting to go to, or currently attending, graduate school in a health-related field. More information on mentors looking to work with interns this summer can be found below.
Interested applicants should send their CV, a cover letter, and names and contact for 3 references to [email protected] and [email protected]. In your materials, please also specify with which EAT Lab member you are most interested in working.
We look forward to reviewing your application materials! The deadline to submit materials is February 1st, or until the positions are filled.
EAT Lab team members looking to mentor summer interns in 2025 include:
Graduate Students:
Savannah Hooper (she/her) & Avantika Kapadia (she/her)
"Avantika and Savannah are second year graduate students interested in co-mentoring a summer intern on a manuscript and/or conference poster. Their interests cover a range of topics within eating disorders research, including obsessive compulsive disorder and eating disorder co-morbidity, eating disorders within ethnic/racial minorities, weight stigma as a risk and maintenance factor for eating disorders, and interests in restrictive eating behaviors."
Loie Faulkner (she/her) & Luis Sandoval-Araujo (he/him)
Luis is a second year graduate student interested in understanding the connection between early childhood anxiety and later eating pathology development. Luis primarily explores this overarching problem using computational methods such as network analysis and machine learning. Long term, he hope that exploring this connection will lead to improved theories of eating pathology development and eventually inform prevention efforts for individuals at risk of developing eating pathology. This summer, third year graduate student, Loie Faulkner, and Luis plan to put together the procedures and processes for analyzing the psychophysiological data we are collecting in the Youth Eating Study, an NIMH-funded R01 study following girls and their mothers over the course of two years to find out potential physiological, behavioral, and affective risk factors for the development of eating pathology. They are seeking an undergraduate student who would be interested in learning about child anxiety, eating disorder development, and the usage of psychophysiological data. Prior experience in programming in R or Python would be ideal but is not required!
Post-Doctoral Fellows:
Dr. Rachel Torres, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Rachel Torres, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral neuroscientist in the EAT lab (and also the REDS lab at Auburn University) focusing on autonomic measurement and analysis. She is involved in our R15 Predicting Recovery project (for which we have completed data collection of more than 100 people), and our R01 TRAC project (tracking restriction affect and cognitions-still collecting data through 2028) in which we study people with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa who have had suicidal ideations and/or attempts to see if we can combine physiological measurements via a wrist worn wearable with 5 phone based surveys per day. Eventually, we hope to predict via machine learning algorithms when people may be susceptible to eating disorder and suicidal behaviors so we can then offer them just in time interventions to help prevent the very sad statistic of one person dying every 52 minutes of an eating disorder. We do a lot of coding and processing in Python and R and it's really fun!"
Dr. Amy Jordan, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Amy Jordan, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the EAT Lab at the University of Louisville, where she is involved in the Youth Eating Study (YES) and other related research projects. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University and completed her predoctoral internship at Geisinger Medical Center. Dr. Jordan’s research centers on the sociocultural factors that shape body image and eating behaviors, with a particular focus on the impact of body talk and parental body attitudes. Her work investigates how positive body image constructs, such as body appreciation, can buffer against body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors. For summer interns, Dr. Jordan’s research projects will continue to explore relationships between internalized weight stigma, drive for muscularity, body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and disordered eating. Interns may also assist with data collection and analysis for YES and other related projects. Dr. Jordan will strive to tailor internship experiences to align with interns' specific training needs and professional goals."
Dr. Aubrey Hoffer, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Aubrey Hoffer is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the EAT Lab at the University of Louisville. She earned her Ph.D. in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. Dr. Hoffer’s research investigates the cognitive processes that shape body image, with a focus on creating new theoretical frameworks to understand its development. For summer interns, Dr. Hoffer’s projects will likely center on body image concerns and eating behaviors. Potential topics include exploring how the drive for muscularity predicts weight stigma and fat acceptance or examining the role of fat acceptance in fostering body appreciation. Additionally, interns may assist in creating a codebook for the Youth Eating Study (YES!), a multi-phase research study examining the emotional, physical, and behavioral aspects of eating in parents and children. Interns working with Dr. Hoffer will gain hands-on experience with data analysis, literature reviews, codebook development, and research dissemination, with opportunities to contribute to publications or presentations."
Dr. Rachel Torres, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Rachel Torres, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral neuroscientist in the EAT lab (and also the REDS lab at Auburn University) focusing on autonomic measurement and analysis. She is involved in our R15 Predicting Recovery project (for which we have completed data collection of more than 100 people), and our R01 TRAC project (tracking restriction affect and cognitions-still collecting data through 2028) in which we study people with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa who have had suicidal ideations and/or attempts to see if we can combine physiological measurements via a wrist worn wearable with 5 phone based surveys per day. Eventually, we hope to predict via machine learning algorithms when people may be susceptible to eating disorder and suicidal behaviors so we can then offer them just in time interventions to help prevent the very sad statistic of one person dying every 52 minutes of an eating disorder. We do a lot of coding and processing in Python and R and it's really fun!"
Dr. Amy Jordan, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Amy Jordan, Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the EAT Lab at the University of Louisville, where she is involved in the Youth Eating Study (YES) and other related research projects. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Bowling Green State University and completed her predoctoral internship at Geisinger Medical Center. Dr. Jordan’s research centers on the sociocultural factors that shape body image and eating behaviors, with a particular focus on the impact of body talk and parental body attitudes. Her work investigates how positive body image constructs, such as body appreciation, can buffer against body dissatisfaction and disordered eating behaviors. For summer interns, Dr. Jordan’s research projects will continue to explore relationships between internalized weight stigma, drive for muscularity, body dissatisfaction, body appreciation, and disordered eating. Interns may also assist with data collection and analysis for YES and other related projects. Dr. Jordan will strive to tailor internship experiences to align with interns' specific training needs and professional goals."
Dr. Aubrey Hoffer, Ph.D. (she/her)
"Dr. Aubrey Hoffer is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the EAT Lab at the University of Louisville. She earned her Ph.D. in Family and Human Development from Arizona State University. Dr. Hoffer’s research investigates the cognitive processes that shape body image, with a focus on creating new theoretical frameworks to understand its development. For summer interns, Dr. Hoffer’s projects will likely center on body image concerns and eating behaviors. Potential topics include exploring how the drive for muscularity predicts weight stigma and fat acceptance or examining the role of fat acceptance in fostering body appreciation. Additionally, interns may assist in creating a codebook for the Youth Eating Study (YES!), a multi-phase research study examining the emotional, physical, and behavioral aspects of eating in parents and children. Interns working with Dr. Hoffer will gain hands-on experience with data analysis, literature reviews, codebook development, and research dissemination, with opportunities to contribute to publications or presentations."
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Post-Doctoral Fellow
Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Louisville
Dr. Levinson, the Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) lab at the University of Louisville (UofL), is hiring a full-time post-doctoral fellow to work on a National Institute of Mental Health supported study that entails building a new precision treatment for eating disorders, and identifying how individual treatment mechanisms relate to public health outcomes, individual disease burden, medical comorbidities, and social determinants of health. This position will involve working with clinical participants with eating disorders, supervising implementation and analysis of studies, assisting Dr. Levinson with training and supervising therapists to complete assessments and deliver the treatment protocol, conducting diagnostic assessments, working on grant proposals and publications, mentoring study coordinators and graduate and undergraduate students, assisting with data preparation and analysis, and working with a large interdisciplinary team at UofL. The post-doctoral fellow will work very closely with Dr. Levinson on a day-to-day basis. Opportunities for involvement in grants, publications, and presentations at national conferences are plentiful. Teaching opportunities are available if desired. Opportunities for supervision toward licensure are also available. Additional clinical opportunities and supervision are also available.
This position is renewable for up to three years and preference will be given to a post-doc who can commit to at least two years. Minimum experience is a doctorate in psychology, engineering, computer science, or a related field. This post-doctoral fellowship will help propel the fellow into a tenure-track faculty position.
To apply please send your CV, a cover letter, and three names of references to Christina Barragan at [email protected]
Application deadline is rolling through December 1 with an expected start date sometime in the summer of 2025, depending on fellow’s schedule.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) Lab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Louisville
Dr. Levinson, the Director of the Eating Anxiety Treatment (EAT) lab at the University of Louisville (UofL), is hiring a full-time post-doctoral fellow to work on a National Institute of Mental Health supported study that entails building a new precision treatment for eating disorders, and identifying how individual treatment mechanisms relate to public health outcomes, individual disease burden, medical comorbidities, and social determinants of health. This position will involve working with clinical participants with eating disorders, supervising implementation and analysis of studies, assisting Dr. Levinson with training and supervising therapists to complete assessments and deliver the treatment protocol, conducting diagnostic assessments, working on grant proposals and publications, mentoring study coordinators and graduate and undergraduate students, assisting with data preparation and analysis, and working with a large interdisciplinary team at UofL. The post-doctoral fellow will work very closely with Dr. Levinson on a day-to-day basis. Opportunities for involvement in grants, publications, and presentations at national conferences are plentiful. Teaching opportunities are available if desired. Opportunities for supervision toward licensure are also available. Additional clinical opportunities and supervision are also available.
This position is renewable for up to three years and preference will be given to a post-doc who can commit to at least two years. Minimum experience is a doctorate in psychology, engineering, computer science, or a related field. This post-doctoral fellowship will help propel the fellow into a tenure-track faculty position.
To apply please send your CV, a cover letter, and three names of references to Christina Barragan at [email protected]
Application deadline is rolling through December 1 with an expected start date sometime in the summer of 2025, depending on fellow’s schedule.
