Connectionists: 2 Fully Funded PhD Positions

[Sara Finocchietti]

Apologies for cross-posting

Two fully founded PhD stipends (3 years) are available at the Unit for the Visually Impaired People of the Italian Institute of Technology https://www.iit.it/lines/unit-for-visually-impaired-people

***Theme 1: FROM SCIENCE TO TECHNOLOGY FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED CHILDREN***

The goal of the project is to develop technologies to support the inclusion of adults and children with visual disabilities through:

* The  development  of  a  new  set  of  devices  to  rehabilitate  spatial  cognition,  mobility  and  social  interaction  of  children  and  adults  with  visual  deficits  through  natural sensory-motor associations.

* The   demonstration   and   the   validation   of   the   technology   through   user,   experimental and clinical studies.

Requirements:    A successful candidate holds a master degree in engineering. Basic neuroscience, and programming skills are required.



***Theme 2: CORTICAL MECHANISMS OF MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS WITH AND WITHOUT VISUAL DISABILITY***

The goal of this project are:

* to study multisensory integration development in children;

* to study how multisensory integration develops in absence of visual input;

* to  investigate  the   neural  mechanisms  that  subserve  the  cross-modal  development.

Requirements: A successful candidate holds a master degree in engineering, neuroscience, psychology or equivalent. Basic programming skills are required.  Previous experience with the EEG technique is preferred.



The ** DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS JUNE 10, 2016, NOON (CET) ** and the stipends are open for appointment from November 1, 2016.

The successful candidate for a U-VIP PhD-stipend will be part of a multidisciplinary team composed of neuroscientists, engineers, psychologists, and physicists working together to investigate brain functions and realize intelligent machines and rehabilitation protocols. More infos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiSsDLUS_UQ

The Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) supports the student's research activities including the realization of ad-hoc experimental set-ups and mechatronic devices. The experimental facilities include, besides the humanoid platform iCub, a fully equipped motion capture room with simultaneous electromyography recording and force-platforms, a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Lab, an Electrophysiology Lab for EEG recording, haptic devices for ergonomic measures of individual and dyadic interaction, robot rehabilitation devices and many more.

IIT working language is English, and we are located in the beautiful city of Genoa, on the Mediterranean sea.

You may obtain further information from Dr. Monica Gori, email: monica.gori at iit.it<mailto:monica.gori at iit.it> concerning the scientific aspects of the stipend.


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Sara Finocchietti, PhD
Postdoc
U-VIP: Unit for Visually Impaired people
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
via morego 30
16163 Genova, Italy
phone +39  01071781761
fax +39 (0)10 71781208


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