[alife] PHD POSITION: REHABILITATION TRAINING EXPLOITING VR AND HUMANOID ROBOT TECHNOLOGY (University of Tuebingen, Germany)

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PHD POSITION: REHABILITATION TRAINING EXPLOITING VR AND HUMANOID ROBOT  
TECHNOLOGY
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The Section for Computational Sensomotorics at the Center for  
Integrative Neurosciences and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain  
Research at the University of Tuebingen invites applications for a  
Postdoc or a PhD student for a maximum duration of 4 years.

The position is funded within the EC research project COGIMON that  
includes multiple other European partners. This highly  
interdisciplinary project aims at the development of control  
algorithms and strategies for the interaction between humans and  
humanoid robots, ultimately leading to biomedical applications. The  
available project focuses on the development of interactive training  
paradigms with normal participants and selected patient groups that  
exploit Virtual Reality setups and later also humanoid robots. The  
work will include experiments with human participants as well as the  
development of appropriate paradigms and interactive setups. The  
efficiency of sensorimotor learning and its optimization by  
appropriate training protocols will be studied in the context of such  
applications.

Our group has long-standing expertise with the modeling and perception  
of complex human body motion. We are part of the Hertie Institute for  
Clinical Brain Science (HIH), one of the leading European institutions  
in Clinical Neuroscience and of the Excellence Center for Integrative  
Neuroscience (CIN) that hosts a large spectrum of experimental and  
theoretical groups in neuroscience at the University and the Max  
Planck Institutes.

Ideal candidates should have the following qualifications:
* Masters (or PhD) degree in Biomedical Engineering, Computer
   Science, Engineering, and related fields, or in Psychology,
   or Biology
* programming experience (Matlab, Python, ...)
* Interest in experiments with human subjects and patients
* English speaking and writing skills.

Committed to Equal Opportunities.

Please send applications preferentially electronically (including CV,  
marks and 2 letters of reference) as soon as possible to Prof. Dr.  
Martin Giese, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research & Center  
for Integrative Neuroscience,
Otfried-Müller. 25, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany;
email: martin.giese at uni-tuebingen.de

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    Section for Theoretical Sensomotorics
    Dept. for Cognitive Neurology
    Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research &
    Center for Integrative Neuroscience
    University of Tuebingen
    Otfried-Müller Str. 25
    D-72076 Tuebingen
    GERMANY
    Tel.: +49 7071 2989124
    Fax:  +49 7071 294790
    Email: martin.giese at uni-tuebingen.de
    Web: http://www.compsens.uni-tuebingen.de/
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