Connectionists: Funded PhD in Cognitive-Computational Neuroscience at University of Bonn (threat avoidance – virtual reality)

[Dominik Bach]

The Hertz Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience 
<http://bachlab.org/> at University of Bonn <https://www.uni-bonn.de/en> 
seeks applications for a funded 4-year PhD to be based at University of 
Bonn under the supervision of Prof Dominik Bach. The position is within 
a project funded by the European Research Council: “Action selection 
under threat – the complex control of human defense”. 
<https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/816564> The purpose of the project 
is to understand the cognitive-computational control of human 
action-selection and decision-making under acute, immediate threat. We 
investigate this in an immersive virtual reality (VR) environment, in 
which people can move to avoid various threats. In a series of 
behavioural and magnetoencephalography experiments, we seek to 
understand the algorithms that control this behaviour, and their neural 
implementation. Behavioural research takes place in Bonn, and 
magnetoencephalography at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, 
University College London.

The Hertz Chair is strongly interdisciplinary, and we invite 
applications from potential students with a broad range of backgrounds 
including, but not limited to, neuroscience, experimental psychology, 
statistics, machine learning, computer science, physics, or medicine. 
The candidate will be enrolled in an international doctoral programme at 
University of Bonn (bigs-neuroscience.de 
<https://bigs-neuroscience.de>). This programme offers unique training 
in concepts and methods across the neurosciences. Training involves 
seminars, methods workshops, participation in summer schools, and 
collaboratively supervised research. The Hertz Chair provides training 
in all relevant aspects of computational neuroscience, decision-making, 
and statistics. Project collaborators at the Institute of Computer 
Science, University College London, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological 
Cybernetics in Tübingen and University of Tubingen provide additional 
expertise and supervision opportunities. The Hertz Chair is part of the 
interdisciplinary iBehave network <http://ibehave.nrw/>.

We offer generous funding (usually starting with 33’000 € p.a.) and 
support travel to conferences or advanced courses. Students will 
participate in international summer schools, seminars and workshops.

*Requirements: *This is a highly competitive programme. Successful 
applicants should have, or expect to get, an excellent MSc degree (or 
equivalent), and should have an interest in computational and 
statistical methods as well as programming. The university is committed 
to employing more people with disabilities and especially encourages 
them to apply. The university also seeks to increase the number of women 
in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly 
encourages women to apply.

*Deadline: **27 June 2022**. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed 
online in **July 2022**. *

*HOW TO APPLY. *Please send in one PDF, your CV, a statement of why you 
want to do this PhD (no more than 1 page), and a copy of your strongest 
piece of academic work (e.g., thesis, publication). Please provide the 
name of two referees who can send us reference letters upon request. All 
documents and references should be sent to a.menke at uni-bonn.de by 27 
June 2022 at midnight. Enquiries about the project can be directed to 
d.bach at uni-bonn.de.

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Prof. Dominik R Bach, MBBS PhD
Hertz Chair for Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience
University of Bonn
Am Propsthof 49
53121 Bonn, Germany
bachlab.org | @bachlab_cog
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