<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">PHD PROGRAM in TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCES AND NEUROTECHNOLOGIES</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class="">The Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC) @ Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), is opening <b class="">3 PhD positions</b> starting in November 1st, 2021.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Research areas:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Improving performance and biocompatibility of electrode arrays for brain-computer interfaces</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Organic neuroelectronics for multimodal recordings and stimulation of the brain in vivo</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Hardware and software development for innovative exploration of brain signals</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Machine learning applications to multimodal brain and speech signals</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Investigation of sensorimotor functions in animal models</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Cortical recordings in human patients during awake Neurosurgery</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">- Human non-invasive neurophysiology of speech and sensorimotor communication</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Who: </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">chemists, physicists, materials scientists, computer scientists, biomedical/electrical engineers, biologists, biotechnologist, medical doctors and experimental psychologists eager to work in an international and multidisciplinary team.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Where:</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal;" class="">The CTNSC (<a href="https://www.iit.it/centers/ctnsc-unife" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">https://www.iit.it/it/ctnsc-unife</span></a>) is hosted by the University of Ferrara (UNIFE) in a prestigious historical building in the city center. Ferrara is a well connected renaissance city (30-min to Bologna, 40-min to Padua, 60-min to Venice; 2 nearby international airports), bustling with students (<a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/733" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class="">https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/733</span></a>).</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">General INFO:</b> <a href="http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/neuroscience" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/neuroscience</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">Application INFO: </b><a href="http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/concorsi/selection" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/concorsi/selection</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 28px;" class=""><b class=""><u class="">DEADLINE: July 23rd, 2021</u></b></div></body></html>