PhD Studentships Neuroinformatics in Edinburgh UK

[Mark van Rossum]

4 YEAR DOCTORAL TRAINING (PhD) IN NEUROINFORMATICS. 
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

We invite applications for the PhD program in the newly established
Edinburgh Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics. The programme is 
made up of 3 themes:

1) Computational and Cognitive Neurocience - analytical and computational
     modelling of the nervous system, visual processing, sensory coding.

2) Neuromorphic Engineering and Neural Computation - Artificial sensor
     perception and analysis, neuromorphic modelling, spiking computation
     and mixed-mode VLSI, evolutionary optimisation of physical systems,
     neurally inspired algorithms, neurorobotics.

3) Simulation, Analysis, Visualisation and Data Handling - software
     systems and computational techniques for neuroscience and neural
     engineering.

The 4 year programme in Neuroinformatics consists of an introductory
year of training in neuroscience, informatics techniques and smaller
lab-based research projects, followed by 3 years of Ph.D. research
study related to one of the above subjects.

The programme has a strong interdiscplinary character and is ideal for
students who want to apply their skills to neuroinformatics problems.
Students with a strong background in computer science, electronics,
mathematics, physics or engineering are particularly welcome to apply,
but motivated students with other backgrounds will be considered as well.

We will be accepting an average of 10 students a year. Students will be
based initially in the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
in the School of Informatics, the UK's largest and highest-quality
academic computer-science group.

Edinburgh has a strong research community in all of the areas listed above
and leads the UK in integrating these into a coherent programme in
Neuroinformatics. Edinburgh has in the past been voted as 'best place to
live in Britain', and has many exciting cultural and student activities.

The stipend is set in the region of 10,000 pounds (15,000 Euros) in the
first year and 13,000 pounds (20,000 Euros/Dollars) per annum in years 2-4.
Full fees are paid. The studentships are available to UK students.  Funding
for EU students is currently unclear. Applicants who are not citizens or
longstanding residents of EU countries will need to find their own funding.

For full application details, and further information of areas of
study at the Centre, consult the website:

           http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/neuroinformatics

or send email to

           neuroinformatics-phd at anc.ed.ac.uk

Applications received by February 28th will receive priority treatment.



Mark van Rossum ==== mvanross at inf.ed.ac.uk =====
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross