Connectionists: Fully funded Postdoctoral position at KTH Stockholm to study cortical activity dynamics in epilepsy

[Arvind Kumar]

Dear Colleagues


We invite applications for a postdoctoral position jointly supervised by
Dr. Arvind Kumar, and Dr. Pawel Herman (KTH Stockholm, Sweden).

The project: The project is concerned with mechanisms underlying the
generation and spread of epileptic activity in the brain networks. In this
context, there are two main goals of this project. 1. To understand how
neuron and synapse properties alter the brain dynamics and make the network
unstable for certain kinds of perturbations. 2. How local changes percolate
to distant networks and alter the dynamics of the whole brain. To this end
we will use computational models of brain networks (microscopic as well as
mesoscopic) and analyse patient data (EEG and in some cases ECoG).

What are we looking for:

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   PhD in computational neuroscience / neuroscience (or
   Physics/Maths/Engineering)
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   strong track record
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   experience in computational modelling of biological neuronal networks
   and/or neural data analysis


Where: The candidate will be hired at the KTH Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He/she will closely interact with clinicians
at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm. In addition, the selected candidate
will have the chance to integrate with the broad neuroscience community in
Stockholm.

Duration: The initial contract will be for two years.

Tentative start date: Sept. 2022

Application documents: Please provide following documents in your
application package

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   Detailed CV
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   Summary of ongoing and previous research (1-2 pages )
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   Future research plans and explain why you computational neuroscience
   maybe useful for studying epilepsy (1-2 pages)
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   Name and contact information of at least two referees.


Application deadline: 15 April 2023

Application submission: Please email your application document to
arvindku at kth.se

About the supervisors:

Arvind Kumar: He is an associate professor at KTH Stockholm, Sweden. He has
extensive experience in modelling biological neuronal networks to explain
the statistics of brain activity dynamics. His research group is interested
in understanding information flow in the brain and how low-level neuron and
synapse properties shape network activity dynamics.

More info: https://arvkumar.github.io/ and
https://www.kth.se/profile/arvindku

Pawel Herman: He is an associate professor at KTH Stockholm, Sweden. He has
extensive experience in developing memory models with a focus on  working
memory functions. His research group is studying a wide range of cognitive
phenomena with computational, neural network modelling approaches, and
contributing towards an integrative computational brain theory to derive
brain-inspired computing paradigms..

More info. : https://www.kth.se/profile/paherman
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