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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"><b>This position encourages students in Engineering, Mathematics, Physics (or Biophysics) or Computer Science to apply.</b></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">We are seeking students that are highly motivated to pursue a PhD project that interfaces several fields, including Neuroscience, Computer Science, Biophysics with the aim to screen new drugs against Alzheimer’s Disease. The project will employ advanced methods in computer science (e.g. machine learning, molecular simulations) and other advanced methods from mathematics and biophysics to develop drugs with high therapeutic efficacy against identified pathways in Alzheimer’s patients.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;text-align:justify;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">The project will be developed at BCAM (Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics) in Bilbao in collaboration with several centres in France, Canada and Singapore.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p3" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);min-height:12px"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Candidate’s requirements:</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Should have completed an MSc.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- The following background knowledge are desirable</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 35.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">- Programming</span></p><p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 35.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">- Mathematics</p><p class="gmail-p5" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 35.4px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)">- Biophysics.</p>
<p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none">Interested students, please contact <a href="mailto:srodrigues@bcamath.org"><span class="gmail-s2" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(11,76,180)">srodrigues@bcamath.org</span></a></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">              
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<span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span><span style="font-size:12px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:12px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Calibri">Serafim Rodrigues</span></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="Calibri" size="4"><span style="font-size:15px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px"><font color="#31557F">Group Leader<br></font><b>BCAM - <font color="#284FAE"></font></b><font color="#1769FD"><font color="#1C48E9">Basque Center for Applied Mathematics</font><br></font>Alameda de Mazarredo, 14<br>E-48009 Bilbao, Basque Country - Spain<br>Tel. +34 946 567 842</span></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="Calibri" size="4"><span style="font-size:15px"><a href="mailto:srodrigues@bcamath.org" target="_blank">srodrigues@bcamath.org</a> | <a href="http://www.bcamath.org/srodrigues" target="_blank">www.bcamath.org/srodrigues</a></span></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font face="Calibri" color="#7F7F7F" size="4"><span style="font-size:15px"><b><i><br></i></b></span></font></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:15px"><font color="#7F7F7F"><b><i>(</i></b><i></i></font><i><font color="#0041F1">matematika</font><font color="#7F7F7F"> mugaz bestalde<b>)</b></font></i></span></div></span></span></font></div></span></span></div></span>
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