<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<style>
<!--
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri}
@font-face
{font-family:Times}
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"}
p.MsoBodyText2, li.MsoBodyText2, div.MsoBodyText2
{margin:0cm;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;
text-decoration:underline}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;
text-decoration:underline}
p
{margin-right:0cm;
margin-left:0cm;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Times","serif"}
p.MsoListParagraph, li.MsoListParagraph, div.MsoListParagraph
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
p.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, li.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast, div.MsoListParagraphCxSpLast
{margin-top:0cm;
margin-right:0cm;
margin-bottom:0cm;
margin-left:36.0pt;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
span.EmailStyle17
{font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext}
span.BodyText2Char
{font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"}
.MsoChpDefault
{font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"}
@page WordSection1
{margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt}
div.WordSection1
{}
ol
{margin-bottom:0cm}
ul
{margin-bottom:0cm}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Intelligent Systems Research Centre (ISRC) at the University of Ulster, UK, invites applications for 3-year Ph.D. studentships. The application process for the Ph.D.
studentship is opened with a closing date for applications on the 28th February 2014. A list of studentships offered for the academic year 2014-2015 and the projects’ details can be found at:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/showPhDProposals.php?ri=3"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/showPhDProposals.php?ri=3</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">.
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The Computational Neuroscience Research Team (CNRT) at ISRC focuses on both fundamental brain and behavioural sciences, and their applications, including clinical neuroscience
(</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://isrc.ulster.ac.uk/computational-neuroscience-research-team/computational-neuroscience-research-team.html"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://isrc.ulster.ac.uk/computational-neuroscience-research-team/computational-neuroscience-research-team.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
). A functional brain mapping facility has recently been established at the ISRC. The available Ph.D. projects for 2014 under the CNRT are:
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Astrocyte: A New Player in Brain Computation</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: Liam McDaid, KongFatt Wong-Lin, Jim Harkin</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Collaboration: Prof. Sergey Kasparov, University of Bristol, UK</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">BITTS: A New Generation of Brain Like Supercomputers.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: Liam McDaid, Jim Harkin, Liam Maguire</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">BrainWave: A Radically New Learning Paradigm for Neural Networks</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: Liam McDaid, Jim Harkin</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Collaboration: Alfonso Araque, University of Minnesota, USA</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Computational Modelling of Electrical Brain Stimulation for Effective Treatment in Neuropsychiatric Disorder.</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: KongFatt Wong-Lin, Girijesh Prasad</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Collaboration: Prof. Declan McLoughlin, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Computational Neuromodulation: Neural Circuit Modelling.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: KongFatt Wong-Lin, John J. Wade, Ammar Belatreche</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Collaboration: Prof. Kae Nakamura, Kansai Medical University, Japan</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Computational Neuropsychiatry: Modelling the Biology of Depression.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify">
<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Supervisors: KongFatt Wong-Lin, T. Martin McGinnity</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:18.0pt; text-align:justify; text-indent:-18.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt"><span style="">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Investigating Alzheimer’s Disease using Large Scale Models of Mammalian Thalamocortical Networks.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-indent:18.0pt"><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Supervisors: Liam Maguire, Damien Coyle</span></i></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Other projects related to neural computation can also be found at the above website, under other ISRC research teams.
</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">All studentships, which are highly competitive, are expected to start in September 2014, and include tuition fees and an annual maintenance allowance for EU and non-EU
students. All applicants should hold a first or upper second class honours degree in an appropriate subject, such as in computer science, electronics, physics, mathematics or neuroscience. Applicants must be highly motivated and willing to pursue research
and develop skills across the disciplines. If you wish to apply for a studentship, please follow the instructions at:
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://www.compeng.ulster.ac.uk/rgs/</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext; text-decoration:none">.
Unless indicated, successful students will be based primarily at the ISRC with opportunities to interact with other related ISRC research teams (e.g. Bio-Inspired and Neuro-Engineering, Brain-Computer Interfacing and Assistive Technologies, and Cognitive Robotics),
research groups from the (5* research rating) Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, the recent Centre for Stratified Medicine, and also opportunities for spin-outs. The ISRC is situated in the city of Derry~Londonderry, which has received the City of Culture
2013 award. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Please note that some studentship (DEL Awards) have restrictions on residence eligibility – see guidance notes for details. For further information, please contact the
ISRC Research Director, Professor Martin McGinnity, at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:tm.mcginnity@ulster.ac.uk"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">tm.mcginnity@ulster.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
and/or the corresponding project supervisors. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">----</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. KongFatt Wong-Lin</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Computational Neuroscience Research Team</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Intelligent Systems Research Centre</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">University of Ulster</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
</div>
<br>
<hr>
<br>
<font size="1">This email and any attachments are confidential and intended solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information which is covered by legal, professional or other privilege. If you have received this email in error please notify the
system manager at postmaster@ulster.ac.uk and delete this email immediately. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University of Ulster. The University's computer systems may be monitored
and communications carried out on them may be recorded to secure the effective operation of the system and for other lawful purposes. The University of Ulster does not guarantee that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or 100% secure. Unless
expressly stated in the body of a separate attachment, the text of email is not intended to form a binding contract. Correspondence to and from the University may be subject to requests for disclosure by 3rd parties under relevant legislation. The University
of Ulster was founded by Royal Charter in 1984 and is registered with company number RC000726 and VAT registered number GB672390524.The primary contact address for the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland is,Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry BT52
1SA </font>
</body>
</html>