Updated in May 2026.
High school students:
Unfortunately, we don’t have any openings for High school students.
Undergraduate research assistants:
Due to high demand, we only accept students from UC Berkeley, Berkeley City College, or HBCUs. Openings for UCB research assistantships are typically posted through the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program. If there is no ad posted either here or on the URAP website, we do not have any openings. As of right now, we do not have any openings for Summer or Fall 2026. Please see below for some advice for prospective RAs.
Paid research assistants/lab managers:
There are no openings at this time.
Graduate students and postbaccalaureate students:
I will be recruiting a graduate student through Psychology for basic cognitive neuroscience research in adults. If interested, please write to Prof. Bunge.
I am also open to students in the postbaccalaureate program in Psychology.
Postdoctoral fellowships:
Please write to Prof. Bunge to inquire about possibilities.
Advice for prospective undergraduate RAs — by Anthony Dunn (former lab manager; graduate student at Dartmouth University):
If you are considering research, I would highly recommend taking an entry-level data science or statistics course in R or Python. Doing so will considerably increase your value as an RA, as statistics and programming are core skills of any researcher. I also found coding and data science to be a lot more fun than I expected. At UC Berkeley, Data C8 (also listed as Stat C8 and Info C8) is the course that helped me build a solid foundation in data science/statistics, and in coding in general. Data C8 is taught in Python, however, what I learned from that class has translated to R and MATLAB as well, both in terms of programming skills and statistics. Despite the depth of Data 8, you do not need any coding experience or a background in stats to take the class. You can freely access all of the material from previous semesters through the Data 8 website: data-8.github.io (data8.org) –although the accountability of enrolling in the course will provide much greater benefit.