[alife] 4 Year PhD in neuroinformatics: Edinburgh

[Titus Brown]

From: Mark van Rossum <mvanross at inf.ed.ac.uk>
To: announce at alife.org
Subject: 4 Year PhD in neuroinformatics Edinburgh
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 12:42:08 +0000

4 YEAR PhD IN NEUROINFORMATICS, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

We invite applications for the EPSRC/MRC funded PhD programme in 
Neuroinformatics at the University of Edinburgh. 

This is a 4 year programme with a strongly interdisciplinary character
and is ideal for students who want to apply their computational and
analytical skills to problems in neuroscience and related fields. The
first year consists of courses in neuroscience and informatics, as
well as projects based in experimental labs. The first year is
followed by a 3 year PhD project. The PhD project is commonly done in
collaboration with one of the many departments and institutes
affiliated with the DTC.
The DTC programme is made up of 3 themes:

1) Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience.
Computational, mathematical, and experimental studies of information
processing in the nervous system.

2) Neuromorphic Engineering and Robotics.
Artificial sensor perception, neuromorphic modelling, spiking
computation, and neurorobotics.

3) Data Analysis and Data Handling.
Visualization, data analysis using machine learning, and simulation.

Edinburgh has a strong research community in these areas and leads
the UK in creating a coherent programme in neuroinformatics. 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.

About 10 full studentships are available to UK students and a small
number of other EU students. The stipend is about 12,000 GB pounds per
annum. Non-EU/non-UK applicants will need to provide their own funding
and evidence thereof.

Full info and application forms can be obtained from:
http://www.anc.ed.ac.uk/neuroinformatics
Applications received by March 30th will receive priority treatment.


-- 
Mark van Rossum, Lecturer, ANC Rm D7, 5 Forrest Hill, U of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh EH1 2QL. homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mvanross
phones: +44-131-6511211(w)+44-131-5538885(h) +44-7722049644(m)