Connectionists: Neuroscience PhD Program, Tuebingen: deadline 15th Dec

[Peter Dayan]

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics and the University
of Tübingen invite students from all over the world to apply for their
interdisciplinary 5-year PhD program leading to a PhD in
Neuroscience. Full funding will be available for top-ranked applicants.

We are seeking talented, curious and open-minded young scientists with
strong backgrounds in neuroscience, biomedical sciences, computational
science, applied mathematics, statistics, artificial intelligence, or
engineering. Successful candidates will possess a burning aspiration to
shape the future of neuroscience and the ability to thrive in a
fast-paced, interdisciplinary, environment.

The application deadline is December 15, 2019. Please visit:

https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/phd-program

for more details and information about applying.

The PhD program is a collaboration between the Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics and the University of Tübingen. It is closely
affiliated with the renowned Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience,
the centerpiece of neuroscience training in Tübingen. Students (who
should have been awarded a Bachelor's degree by September 2020) will
receive a broad interdisciplinary training in neuroscience, including
expert teaching by international renowned scientists and individual and
intensive mentoring.

Potential research topics cover a variety of fields in systems
neuroscience, cognitive and behavioral neuroscience, computational
neuroscience, translational and clinical neuroscience as well as
cellular and molecular neuroscience.

Teaching and research are conducted in English.