<div dir="ltr"><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-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
lab of </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rava Azeredo da Silveira</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> invites applications for a <b>PhD Student position</b>
at the <b>interface of computational neuroscience and machine learning</b>, at the
Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) in Switzerland, an
associated institute of the University of Basel</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-serif">Research projects
will involve modeling and data analysis; some projects will be carried out in
the framework of collaborations with experimental labs. Questions will be
chosen from a range of topics involving neural representations as relating to
behavior, neural coding, dynamics and learning.</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-family:Arial,sans-serif">Candidates with
backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, physics,
computer science, and engineering are welcome. Experience with data analysis
and proficiency with numerical methods, in addition to familiarity with
mathematical and statistical methods, are desirable. Equally desirable are a
spirit of intellectual adventure, eagerness, and drive.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The
positions will come with highly competitive work conditions and salaries.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-serif">For full
consideration, please apply by 15 March 2021.</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-family:Arial,sans-serif">How to apply:</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 lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-serif">silveira@iob.ch</span></b></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">letter
on motivation and interests;</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">curriculum vitæ</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">;</span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt 0.25in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">transcripts of undergraduate and Master grades</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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 lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In
addition, please </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 6pt;text-align:center;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">***</span></p>

<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-family:Arial,sans-serif">The Silveira</span></b><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Lab</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-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-family:Arial,sans-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></div>