<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 class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">PHD PROGRAM in TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCES AND NEUROTECHNOLOGIES</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">The Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech and Communication (CTNSC) @ Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), jointly with the University of Ferrara, are opening up to 8 PhD positions starting in November 1st, 2022.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Research areas:</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Improving performance and biocompatibility of electrode arrays for brain-computer interfaces</div><div class="">- Organic neuroelectronics for multimodal recordings and stimulation of the brain in vivo</div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Hardware and software development for innovative exploration of brain signals</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Machine learning applications to multimodal brain and speech signals</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Investigation of sensorimotor functions in animal models</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Cortical recordings in human patients during awake Neurosurgery</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">- Human non-invasive neurophysiology of speech and sensorimotor communication by means of TMS, EEG, EMG and MoCap</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Who: </b>physicists, computer scientists, biomedical/electrical engineers, biologists, biotechnologist, medical doctors and experimental psychologists eager to work in an international and multidisciplinary team.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Where: </b>The CTNSC (<a href="https://www.iit.it/it/ctnsc-unife" class="">https://www.iit.it/it/ctnsc-unife</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="">https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/733</a>).</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">General INFO:</b> <a href="http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/neuroscience" class="">http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/it/corsi/riforma/neuroscience</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Application INFO:</b> <a href="http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/concorsi/selection" class="">http://www.unife.it/studenti/dottorato/concorsi/selection</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">Application website:</b> <a href="https://pica.cineca.it/unife/dottorati-38-ntn/" class="">https://pica.cineca.it/unife/dottorati-38-ntn/</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><b class="">DEADLINE: July 25rd, 2022</b></div></body></html>