Employment Opportunities

Undergraduate Research Opportunities

There are many ongoing research projects in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience that provide ample opportunities for undergraduate students to gain research experience. Students have the opportunity to work with staff, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and other undergraduate students. Students must be willing to commit to working a minimum of two semesters (fall & spring) of research credit in the laboratory or have work-study funding. If you are interested in applying to work in the laboratory, please complete this application. Completed applications can either be emailed to or put in the mailbox (located near room 238 in the Psychology department) of the laboratory manager, Isa Dolski.

Some of the current available positions are listed below:

Summer Research

Dr. Davidson enthusiastically supports the UW summer Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) and typically welcomes one student to the lab each summer. If you are a potential PREP applicant, please check the Psychology Department's PREP website for information on how to apply.

Exceptional UW-Madison undergraduate students who are able to work in the lab beyond the summer are highly preferred to those who are only able to work during the summer. UW-Madison students have the option to work on a paid basis. If you are a UW-Madison undergraduate student who wishes to gain research experience in this lab, and you are able to continue working in the lab beyond the summer, please submit a completed application to Isa Dolski.

Each year we receive many inquiries from students at other universities & colleges who wish to work only during the summer months in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience. We rarely accept non-UW students for such short periods of time since our laboratory is a large and complex place and it takes a significant amount of time to be trained to do meaningful tasks. We may consider accepting exceptional non-UW-Madison undergraduate students for the summer on a volunteer basis only. If you are a non-UW-Madison student and wish to volunteer in the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience for a summer, please send to the laboratory manager, Isa Dolski, your CV, transcript & a cover letter explaining why you wish to work in the lab. Please be sure to detail any prior research experience or special skills that you may have.

Graduate Research Opportunities

For information on applying to the Department of Psychology as a graduate student, please see the Psychology Department's Graduate Studies webpage. Students interested in pursuing graduate or post-doctoral training in our laboratory should be familiar with our research. For an overview, we suggest the following articles:

Pre- and Post-Doctoral Research Opportunities

The Training Program in Emotion Research, funded by an NIMH Institutional National Research Service Award training grant, supports 8 pre-doctoral and 4 post-doctoral trainees in emotion research each year.

Staff Opportunities

None at this time.