General Description

Salary: The expected academic base salary range for this position is $110,000- $144,500 (Assistant Professor level), $131,500 - $201,000 (Associate Professor level), and $156,00 - $316,000 (Full Professor level).

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Johns Hopkins University invites applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track faculty member, open rank, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. The successful candidate will have a cutting-edge research program in any area of cognitive neuroscience, broadly construed. Areas of research could include (but are not limited to) perception, concepts, memory, learning, language, action, reasoning, metacognition, social cognition, moral cognition, cognitive development, comparative/animal cognition, and decision-making.Cognitive neuroscience research includes research with human participants using methods such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), magnetoencephalography (MEG) or EEG (Electroencephalography). The Department invites applications from outstanding candidates at the Associate and Full Professor ranks. Exceptional candidates at the Assistant Professor stage, especially those nearing their tenure review, will also be considered.

The department is also conducting open rank searches in Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience. Candidates conducting research with animal models are invited to apply to the Behavioral Neuroscience position. Candidates using primarily behavioral and/ or computational measures are invited to apply to the Cognitive Psychology position. For information about these other two searches please go to please go to: https://pbs.jhu.edu/about/jobs/ . Candidates are invited to apply to multiple searches when appropriate.

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is located on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and maintains close ties and collaborative relationships with the Departments of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Philosophy, as well as the Mind/Brain Institute and the SNF Agora Institute.

Review of applications will begin December 1, 2025, and will continue on a rolling basis. Preference will be given to applications received on or before January 15, 2026. Applicants may write to Dr. Marina Bedny (marina.bedny@jhu.edu) with subject "PBS Cognitive Neuroscience Search" with questions about this search. 

Qualifications

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a CV, cover letter, research and teaching statements, and three representative publications. For applicants applying at the level of Assistant Professor, three letters of reference are also required.

About Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University remains committed to its founding principle, that education for all students should be grounded in exploration and discovery. Hopkins students are challenged not just to learn but also to advance learning itself. Critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and entrepreneurship are all encouraged and nourished in this unique educational environment. After more than 130 years, Johns Hopkins remains a world leader in both teaching and research. Faculty members and their research colleagues at the university's Applied Physics Laboratory have each year since 1979 won Johns Hopkins more federal research and development funding than any other university. The university has nine academic divisions and campuses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the Whiting School of Engineering, the School of Education and the Carey Business School are based at the Homewood campus in northern Baltimore. The schools of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing share a campus in east Baltimore with The Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Peabody Institute, a leading professional school of music, is located on Mount Vernon Place in downtown Bal...timore. The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies is located in Washington's Dupont Circle area.

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