Senior Staff Associate I

The Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center (CAC) seeks a highly qualified and motived researcher for a Senior Staff Associate I position to participate in the research underway in its Science of Health division. The successful candidate will work with a collaborative team of researchers under the direction of Dr. Alan Cohen, Associate Professor of Environmental Health Sciences (in CAC). The Cohen lab is interested in understanding how our bodies maintain their internal equilibrium over time, and how loss of this equilibrium contributes to the aging process. The lab applies complex systems theory and statistics to epidemiological and clinical biomarker data to understand how the dynamics and ensembles of the markers reveal underlying health status. The lab then generates new indices of health that can be used to relate health/aging to lifestyle, psychology, social factors, and environment.