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<span style="font-size:18.0pt; color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Fully funded<b> PhD fellowships</b> in computational neurosciences (Benoit Cottereau’s team, Cerco, CNRS UMR 5549 in Toulouse and IPAL IRL 2955 in Singapore) on spatial cognition with
spiking neural networks</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:red; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Starting date:</span></b><span style="color:red; background:white" lang="EN-GB">
</span><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Second semester of 2023</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:red; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Supervisors:</span></b><span style="color:red; background:white" lang="EN-GB">
</span><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Benoit Cottereau, research director at CNRS (Contact:
</span><a href="mailto:benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr"><span style="background:white" lang="EN-GB">benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr</span></a><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">), in close collaboration with Robby Tan, associate professor at National
University of Singapore (NUS)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:red; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Keywords:
</span></b><b><i><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Computational neurosciences, Spatial cognition, Artificial intelligence (AI), Vision, Spiking neural networks, Event-based cameras.</span></i></b><b><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-US">Fully funded PhD fellowships are available to work at the CNRS (Cerco laboratory in Toulouse and also IPAL in Singapore) under the supervision of Benoit
Cottereau (CNRS research director), in close collaboration with Robby Tan (assistant professor at NUS, Singapore).
</span><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">The aim of the project is to develop computational models of spatial cognition in humans (e.g., for depth/motion perception or navigation). In order to reproduce the very low energy consumption
of visual information processing in biological systems, these models will be based on spiking-neural networks (SNNs) and will process data collected from event-based cameras. These models will be evaluated
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">with respect to biological data (their responses will be compared to those observed in neural recordings and/or in behavioural experiments).</span><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">The candidates should be willing to work in an international environment which involves Singapore and France, have a good level in English, very good programming
skills and be interested in neurobiology. Some knowledge in neurosciences/ cognitive sciences would be a plus.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">The research will mainly take place in Toulouse, a student city (Toulouse is the second university hub in France) with high quality of life located in the
south west of France (close to the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean Sea and the Spanish border). Long stays in Singapore (a multicultural and attractive city of south-east Asia) are also planned. Each of the three positions will be fully funded during the three
years of the PhD, with standard French salaries. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB">Applications should be sent to
</span><a href="mailto:benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr"><span style="" lang="EN-US">benoit.cottereau@cnrs.fr</span></a><span style="" lang="EN-US">,
<b>including a CV and 2 names of references.</b></span><span style="color:black; background:white" lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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</span><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:11pt">Benoit R. Cottereau, PhD, HDR,
</span>CNRS Research director (DR2) <br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">at the Brain and Cognition Research Center (CerCo, CNRS, UMR 5549, Toulouse):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black"><a href="http://cerco.cnrs.fr/page-benoit-cottereau/" id="LPNoLP"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">http://cerco.cnrs.fr/page-benoit-cottereau/</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Director of the SV3M team (Spatial Vision in Man, Monkey and Machine):</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black"><a href="http://cerco.cnrs.fr/en/sv3m-spatial-vision-in-man-monkey-machine/" title="Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link" id="LPNoLP"><span style="font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">http://cerco.cnrs.fr/en/sv3m-spatial-vision-in-man-monkey-machine/</span></a></span><span style="color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="color:black; font-size:11pt" lang="EN-US">Supervisor of the Integrative Neurosciences master program of Toulouse III University</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">phone: (+33)-5-62744520</span></span></p>
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