Connectionists: PhD positions in computational neuroscience 2016

[Mark van Rossum]

3 YEAR PhD IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

We are happy to announce a last minute opening in our PhD programme in 
COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE at the University of Edinburgh.

Applicants need to have UK citizenship, or have been in the UK for the 
last 3 years.

The studentships are ideal for students who want to apply their
computational and analytical skills to problems in neuroscience and 
related fields. The following supervisor have openings:

Peggy Seriès: Bayesian approaches to cognition and perception; 
computational psychiatry.

Mark van Rossum: Synaptic plasticity; coding in the visual system; noise 
in the nervous system.

Matthias Hennig: Models of neural networks; homeostasis and development;
visual and auditory neuroscience; analysis of large-scale 
electrophysiological recordings

The PhD project can be done in collaboration with one of the many 
affiliated departments and institutes. Edinburgh has been voted as 'best 
place to live in Britain', and has many exciting cultural and student 
activities.

Students with a strong background in either computer science,
mathematics, physics or engineering are particularly welcome to apply.
Motivated students with other backgrounds will also be considered.


Application procedure:
For more info see http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/neuroscience
and contact one of the supervisors listed above.
Next, apply at
http://www.ed.ac.uk/studying/postgraduate/degrees/index.php?r=site/view&id=489

Rapid action from applicants will be required.

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Mark van Rossum, Reader, School of Informatics, U Edinburgh
Forum Rm 2.52, 44-131-6511211

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