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<font face="HelveticaNeue-Light" class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">Open PhD position in Neurotechnology at Imperial College London in the Chadderton and Clopath labs. The candidate will be doing </font><i class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">in
vivo</i><font face="HelveticaNeue-Light" class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;"> electrophysiology in mouse cerebellum and computational modelling of learning-related changes in this circuit. Candidate must be EU national. </font><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
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<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">Project: Biologically inspired computation for real-time motor control</span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
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<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">Supervisors: </span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">Paul Chadderton (</span><a href="http://neuralcircuitsinbehaviour.squarespace.com/" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">http://neuralcircuitsinbehaviour.squarespace.com/</a><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">)</span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">Claudia Clopath (</span><a href="http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/c.clopath/" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/c.clopath/</a><span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">)</span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
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<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">An important area of robotics research is focused on developing machines that can learn and adapt to changing environments as efficiently as animals. Biological principles underlying the acquisition of
motor skills are likely to inspire these new technologies. The aim of our project is to characterise computational principles of motor learning in real time using novel neurophysiological data from a uniquely tractable and well-controlled system, the whisker
circuitry of the cerebellar cortex. Neural recordings will reveal how the brain adapts during learning, and will then be used to develop and apply a biologically constrained computational model in an actively sensing robot.</span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
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<span class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">For full application instructions, see:</span><br class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">
<a href="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/neurotechnology/cdt/projects/computation_for_motor_control/" target="_blank" class="" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light;">http://www.imperial.ac.uk/neurotechnology/cdt/projects/computation_for_motor_control/</a>
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