<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Openings for
PhD positions in the lab of Rava Azeredo da Silveira</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left;margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="font-size:11pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Basel)</span></b></p>

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Azeredo da Silveira</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> invites
applications for <b>PhD</b> <b>positions</b> at the Institute for Molecular and
Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB), an associated institute of the University
of Basel</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Research questions will be chosen from a broad range
of topics in theoretical/computational neuroscience and cognitive science (see
the description of the lab’s activity, below). Candidates with backgrounds in
mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, physics, computer science,
engineering, biology, and psychology are welcome. Experience with data analysis
and proficiency with numerical methods, in addition to familiarity with
neuroscience topics and mathematical and statistical methods, are desirable.
Equally desirable are a spirit of intellectual adventure, eagerness, and drive.</span></p>

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conditions and salaries.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Application deadline:</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We will start reviewing applications on 20 December
2020.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please send the following information <b>in one single
PDF, to </b></span><span lang="DE-CH"><a href="mailto:silveira@iob.ch" style="color:blue"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">silveira@iob.ch</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">letter
on motivation and interests;</span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">curriculum vitæ</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">; </span></p>

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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">transcripts
of undergraduate and Master grades.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In addition, please </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">arrange for three letters of recommendations to be sent to the same
email address. In all email correspondence, please include the mention
“APPLICATION-PHD” in the subject header, otherwise the application will <i>not</i>
be considered.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Silveira</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">
Lab</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> focuses on a range of topics, which, however, are
tied together through a central question: How does the brain represent and
manipulate information?</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Among the more concrete approaches to this question,
the lab analyses and models neural activity in circuits that can be identified,
recorded from, and perturbed experimentally, such as visual neural circuits in
the retina and the cortex. Establishing links between physiological specificity
and the structure of neural activity yields an understanding of circuits as
building blocks of cerebral information processing. On a more abstract level,
the lab investigates the representation of information in populations of
neurons, from a statistical and algorithmic—rather than mechanistic—point of
view, through theories of coding and data analyses. These studies aim at
understanding the statistical nature of high-dimensional neural activity in
different conditions, and how this serves to encode and process information
from the sensory world.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the context of cognitive studies, the lab
investigates mental processes such as inference, learning, and decision-making,
through both theoretical developments and behavioral experiments. A particular
focus is the study of neural constraints and limitations and, further, their
impact on mental processes. Neural limitations impinge on the structure and
variability of mental representations, which in turn inform the cognitive
algorithms that produce behavior. The lab explores the nature of neural limitations,
mental representations, and cognitive algorithms, and their interrelations.</span></p>

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