Graduate Students
Based on current occupancy, the lab is unlikely to be able to take incoming rotation students in 2021/22, although we may consider supervising a student in a co-advising role (i.e., jointly with another faculty member). Students interested in discussing future opportunities should email cfetsch@jhu.edu.
Postdoctoral Fellows
We do not currently have any active searches for postdoctoral fellows. However, if you feel your interests and skills are a particularly good fit, and especially if you are flexible about start dates, feel free to reach out and introduce yourself, either by email or (hopefully soon) in person at a conference!
Undergraduate RA
Undergraduates, both at Hopkins and other universities, have made important contributions to our research from the very beginning, and (space permitting) we are always open to considering new, highly motivated students. An RA/intern in our lab may be involved in all aspects of research, including animal training, behavioral data collection (human and monkey), data analysis and modeling, and possibly—alongside a grad student or postdoc—neurophysiology experiments. Some have designed their own research projects and aided in preparation of conference posters, talks, and manuscripts for publication. As my colleague Chaz Firestone puts it, here you would not be a ‘small cog in a big machine.’ But that means it requires a relatively high level of commitment, both intellectually (reading papers, learning to write code, contributing to lab meetings) and time-wise (a minimum of the ~9 hours per week that corresponds to 3 credits of research for Neuroscience majors).
If you are really excited about our work and think you might want to be a part of it, feel free to email cfetsch@jhu.edu with a brief description of your scientific interests (including what sorts of things you might want to study in the lab), goals (why are you interested in doing research in the first place?), and previous research experience or relevant coursework, if any. For the first part you may wish to take a look through some of our papers, but we are happy to point you toward other relevant literature if you simply describe what ideas/topics you find most interesting!