PhD Position in Computer Science/Computational Neuroscience

[Wolfgang Maass]

PhD Position in Computer Science/Computational Neuroscience

Research Project:  Computation and Learning in Cortical Microcircuits

Research Goals: Evaluation of the computational power and learning
capability of cortical microcircuits via theoretical analysis and
computer simulations, as well as applications of simulated cortical
microcircuits to adaptive robot control and other reinforcement
learning tasks.

This research is carried out by a team of 6 PhD students and
Assistant-Professors at the Institut fuer Grundlagen der
Informationsverarbeitung, Technische Universitaet Graz under the
direction of Wolfgang Maass,
http://www.igi.tugraz.at/maass/Welcome.html, in collaboration with
several Institutes for Neuroscience (such as the Mind Brain Institute
at EPFL Lausanne and the MPI for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen).

Expected Qualifications: Diplom or Masters with very good grades (in
an area such as Computer Science, Neuroscience, Mathematics, Physics,
or Control), demonstrated research potential, interest in neural
computation and learning, programming experience.

Applications: should be sent -if possible- by email to
maass at igi.tu-graz.ac.at (attachments in pdf), otherwise by mail to

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maass
Institut fuer Grundlagen der Informationsverarbeitung
Technische Universitaet Graz
Inffeldgasse 16 b/1
A-8010 Graz,  Austria