Connectionists: Open PhD positions at KTH Stockholm

[Anders Lansner]

In the research group of Anders Lansner at the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm, http://www.csc.kth.se/forskning/cb/cbn/ there are now openings
for

 

                      two PhD students

 

for research on modelling of neural systems, including computational
neuroscience, software for multi-scale neural simulation, and experiments
with large scale neuromorphic hardware systems. Functions in focus are
cortical associative memory and information processing in the early
olfactory system.

 

The group collaborates closely with experimentalists at Karolinska
Institutet and is currently partner of the Stockholm Brain Institute as well
as hosts the Swedish INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating
Facility) node. 

 

Specifically targeted areas in for these positions are:

 

.        Low-frequency, balanced oscillatory activity and spike synchrony in
a layered attractor memory model of neocortex

.        Attractor formation and memory recall in a dynamically sparse
cortex-sized recurrent neuronal network model

.        Functionality and performance of a cortex-inspired network model
combining layer 4 self-organization and feature extraction with holistic
processing in layers 2/3-5.

 

A keen interest in understanding brain function and brain-inspired computing
as well as good programming skills is expected.

 

These two PhD Students will be funded by the Marie Curie Initial Training
Network Facets-ITN http://facets.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ITN/. They will
receive a strongly interdisciplinary training including extended stays in
several partner laboratories from the project.

 

Applicants for these positions at KTH should apply at
http://facets.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/ITN/ marking KTH as the preferred
partner.

The application deadline is 20 August 2009.

 

For further questions, please correspond with Anders Lansner: 

ala at kth.se

 

(The rules of the Marie Curie Network demand that applicants for the
positions in Sweden must be of non-Swedish nationality and have spent less
than 12 months during the last 3 years in Sweden.)

 

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Dr Anders Lansner

 

Dept of Computational biology, KTH and Stockholm University

 

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