Psychology Professor Resume Template
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Hannah Taylor
Psychology Professor · Cognitive & Developmental Research
Columbus, OH · (614) 555-3301 · hannah.taylor@email.com · linkedin.com/in/hannahtaylor
Profile
Cognitive psychologist with 11 years of university teaching and research on working memory in children, leading a lab of 12 undergraduate and graduate researchers. Holds $1.3M in NIH and IES funding and has published 17 peer-reviewed papers.
Academic Appointments
2021 – Present
Associate Professor of Psychology
Mid-Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Teach Cognitive Psychology, Research Methods and graduate Multivariate Statistics to 250 a year.
- Direct the Child Memory Lab with 3 Ph.D. students and 9 undergraduate research assistants.
- Won an $850K IES grant as PI testing a working memory curriculum in 14 Columbus-area schools.
- Write and maintain IRB protocols for 5 active studies involving children and parental consent.
- Mentored 30 undergraduates; 17 went on to graduate programs in psychology and medicine.
2017 – 2021
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Mid-Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
- Published 10 peer-reviewed papers in Developmental Psychology and Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
- Built eye-tracking and computerized testing stations used by 200 child participants a year.
- Secured a $420K NIH R15 grant on attention and memory in children aged 5–9.
- Redesigned the Research Methods course so every student pre-registers and runs an original study.
2015 – 2017
Postdoctoral Scholar
Miami Valley Children's Research Center, Dayton, OH
- Ran longitudinal testing of 320 children and managed data cleaning and multilevel models in R.
- Co-authored 4 papers and trained 8 research assistants on standardized assessments.
Training
Human Subjects Research (Social-Behavioral)
CITI Program
ACUE Certificate in Effective College Instruction
Association of College and University Educators
Research & Teaching
Cognitive developmentExperimental designMultilevel modelingIRB protocol writingNIH & IES grant writingEye-tracking researchResearch mentoring
Statistical Software
R
SPSS
Mplus
E-Prime
Qualtrics
Education
Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognitive)
2015
The Ohio State University
B.A. in Psychology
2009
University of Dayton
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- Research Design
- Statistical Analysis
- Curriculum Development
- Grant Writing
- SPSS/R Programming
- IRB Protocol Writing
- Academic Writing
- Peer-Reviewed Publishing
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Duties to describe on a psychology professor resume
- Prepared and delivered lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as abnormal psychology, cognitive processes, and work motivation.
- Initiated, facilitated, and moderated classroom discussions.
- Evaluated and graded students' class work, laboratory work, assignments, and papers.
- Kept abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
- Compiled, administered, and graded examinations, or assigned this work to others.
- Prepared course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
Titles along the way
- Adjunct Instructor
- Assistant Professor
- Full Professor
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