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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Applications are invited by the Centre for Future Societies Research for three fully funded PhD studentships at the University of Hertfordshire.
These research studentships will be part of the University Alliance (UA) Doctoral Training Alliance in Future Societies, and include the proposed project: "Low-cost, accessible neurostimulation, experiments and simulations" to be supervised by Dr Nada Yousif
and Prof Volker Steuber.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">The PhD project will combine experimental cerebellar stimulation and computational modelling of the cerebellum to show the feasibility of low-cost, accessible non-invasive neurostimulation
for treating movement disorders.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Please see the Centre for Future Societies Research web page where project details are held on
<a href="https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-research/phd-studentships" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0D6EFD">https://www.herts.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-future-societies-research/phd-studentships</span></a>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Closing date for applications: 20th May 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Interviews will start soon after the closing date.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Studentship start date: September 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">For informal enquiries contact Dr Nada Yousif (<a href="mailto:n.yousif@herts.ac.uk">n.yousif@herts.ac.uk</a>) or Prof Volker Steuber (<a href="mailto:v.steuber@herts.ac.uk">v.steuber@herts.ac.uk</a>,
<a href="http://biocomputation.herts.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0D6EFD">http://biocomputation.herts.ac.uk/</span></a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">Dr Nada Yousif<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">University of Hertfordshire<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529">+44 (0)1707 284129<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529"><a href="mailto:n.yousif@herts.ac.uk">n.yousif@herts.ac.uk</a>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#212529"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/nada-yousif/home" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0D6EFD">https://sites.google.com/view/nada-yousif/home</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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