<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="center"><b>Four-year PhD in Computational Psychiatry at University College
London<br> </b></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">The
International</span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"> </span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Max
Planck Research School on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and
Ageing Research</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="https://www.mps-ucl-centre.mpg.de/en)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">https://www.mps-ucl-centre.mpg.de/en)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> seeks applicants for PhD fellowships to be based at University
College London (UCL). The PhD programme is strongly interdisciplinary
and invites applications from potential students with a broad range
of backgrounds including, but not limited to, neuroscience,
mathematics, statistics, machine learning, computer science, physics,
psychology, and medicine.</span></span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">This is
an international doctoral programme of the </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Max
Planck UCL Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">,
which has sites in London and Berlin. The programme offers unique
training in concepts and methods from computer science and statistics
in relation to substantive research questions in cognitive
neuroscience, psychiatry, and lifespan psychology. Training involves
seminars, methods workshops, participation in summer schools, and
collaboratively supervised research. Students will take one module
per semester for the first two years of the programme on topics that
range from psychiatry and decision science to advanced computational
and statistical methods.</span></span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">The main
focus of the London site is to address cognitive and theoretical
neuroscience questions relevant to understanding psychiatric
disorders. Methods include neuroimaging and pharmacology,
computational modelling of behaviour (learning, decision-making,
emotion), and large-scale smartphone- and internet-based data
collection. Students will have a primary supervisor within the Centre
and possible supervisors include </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Tobias
Hauser</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="http://v1.tobiashauser.ch/)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">http://v1.tobiashauser.ch/)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> and </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Quentin
Huys</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="https://quentinhuys.com/)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">https://quentinhuys.com/)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">.
Collaboration is encouraged within the Centre and with other UCL
departments including the </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Wellcome
Centre for Human Neuroimaging</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">https://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> and</span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"> </span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>Gatsby
Computational Neuroscience Unit</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">.</span></span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.28cm; line-height: 0.56cm" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">We offer a generous four-year
studentship stipend of £23,263 (tax free) per year, PhD registration
fees at the current Home/EU rate, research expenses, and funds for
travel to conferences or courses. (If you are an international
student please note that this studentship only covers UK/EU fees and
you will need to provide the difference between UK/EU and overseas
fees.) Students will participate in international summer schools,
seminars and workshops linked to the Berlin site, and have the
opportunity to conduct a research project of up to 6 months in
Berlin.</span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>Requirements: </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">This
is a highly competitive programme. Successful applicants should have,
or expect to get, at least an upper 2nd class degree (or the foreign
equivalent), and should have some familiarity with computational and
statistical methods. Students wishing to undertake a PhD with Quentin
Huys are expected to take and pass </span></span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u>courses</u></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> (</span></span><span style="color:#0563c1" class="colour"><u><a href="http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/courses/index.html)"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/teaching/courses/index.html)</span></a></u></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> at the Gatsby Computational Unit. </span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>The
next intake of students will be </b></span></span><span style="color:#0070c0" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>October
2018 </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>(with
the possibility for a later start date). </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">UCL
is committed to employing more people with disabilities and
especially encourages them to apply. UCL also seeks to increase the
number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and
therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.</span></span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>Deadline: </b></span></span><span style="color:#0070c0" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>26
August 2018</b></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>.
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in early </b></span></span><span style="color:#0070c0" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>September
2018 </b></span></span><span style="color:#000000" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>via
Skype.</b></span></span><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-right: 0.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.39cm" lang="en-US" align="justify"><br></p><p class="western" style="margin-right: 0.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.39cm" lang="en-US" align="justify"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>HOW TO APPLY. </b></span><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">Please
send: 1) a CV, 2) a statement of why you want to do the PhD (no more
than 1 page), 3) a copy of your strongest piece of academic work
(e.g., thesis, publication). Please also arrange for two reference
letters to be sent to us by referees. Your surname should be the
first word in the subject line of these emails. The statement should
indicate which of the named supervisors you would be most interested
in having as a primary supervisor (multiple faculty can be listed as
potential supervisors). Please ensure that your surname is the first
word in the subject line of the email and that all documents are
clearly labelled with your surname and the type of document. All
documents and references should be sent to </span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u><a href="mailto:MaxPlanckPhD@ucl.ac.uk">MaxPlanckPhD@ucl.ac.uk</a></u></span></span><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"> by </span><span style="color:#0070c0" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><b>26
August 2018 </b></span></span><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">at
midnight. Questions about the programme can be directed to </span><span style="color:#0000ff" class="colour"><span style="font-size:13px" class="size"><u><a href="mailto:MaxPlanckPhD@ucl.ac.uk">MaxPlanckPhD@ucl.ac.uk</a></u></span></span><span style="font-size:13px" class="size">.</span><br></p><div class="protonmail_signature_block protonmail_signature_block-empty"><div class="protonmail_signature_block-user protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div><div class="protonmail_signature_block-proton protonmail_signature_block-empty"><br></div></div><div><br></div>