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style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black" lang="EN-US">The <a href="http://bachlab.org/">Hertz
Chair for Artificial
Intelligence and Neuroscience</a> at <a
href="https://www.uni-bonn.de/en">University
of Bonn</a> 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 <a
href="https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/816564">European
Research Council: “Action selection under threat – the complex
control of human
defense”.</a> 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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black" lang="EN-US">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 (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://bigs-neuroscience.de">bigs-neuroscience.de</a>).
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, <a>University
College London</a>, 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 <a href="http://ibehave.nrw/">interdisciplinary
iBehave
network</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black" lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US">Requirements: </span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:black" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;text-align:justify"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US">Deadline: </span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"
lang="EN-US">27 June 2022</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US">. Shortlisted candidates
will be interviewed online in </span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0070C0"
lang="EN-US">July 2022</span></b><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US">. </span></b><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"
lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span
style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"
lang="EN-US">HOW
TO APPLY. </span></b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">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 class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:a.menke@uni-bonn.de">a.menke@uni-bonn.de</a>
by 27 June 2022
at midnight. Enquiries about the project can be directed to <span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:d.bach@uni-bonn.de">d.bach@uni-bonn.de</a>.</span></p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
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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</pre>
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