[FieldTrip] PhD positions at Ernst Struengmann Institute

[Martin Vinck]

We are still looking for two PhD positions, see below. Perhaps interesting
for students involved in FieldTrip development as well:

Best regards - Martin Vinck.


The laboratory of Dr. Martin Vinck at the Ernst Struengmann Institute for
Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society
<http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/esi-frankfurt/>is seeking multiple candidates
for computational neuroscience Ph.D. positions to be filled per immediate.
Positions are fully funded. These positions encompass following projects:

1) Theoretical and data-analytical approaches to population coding in the
nervous system. These include:

   - Mathematical approaches to understand the relationship between rate
   and temporal coding.
   - Development of unsupervised machine learning techniques to study
   neuronal patterns in high-dimensional state-spaces, with an emphasis on
   temporal sequencies in neural activity. This work builds further on our
   recent Plos Computational Biology paper.
   <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006283>
   - Study of state-space trajectories on short time-scales.

2) Development of algorithms and open-source platform for efficient
analysis of high-dimensional neural datasets on high-performance computing
clusters and GPUs in Julia or Python. The focus is on the extraction of
network correlation measures in high-dimensional spiking datasets, and the
development of new tools to quantify Granger-causality and spike-field
coherence.

PhD students will work together with experimental neuroscientists in our
laboratory and apply methods and models on experimental datasets from
primate and rodent animal models. Experiments in the laboratory include
multi-areal electrophysiology with sillicon probes together with
optogenetics. It is also possible for PhD students to participate actively
in these experiments.

We are primarily looking for students with training in a quantitative
discipline (physics, electrical or biomedical engineering, computer
science, mathematics, etc.), or neuroscientists with additional
quantitative training. Some experience with neuroscience, or a proven
interest in neuroscience, is a pre, but not a must.

Frankfurt is an internationally oriented city with many prestigious
neuroscience institutes in the neighbourhood, e.g. the Max Planck Institute
for Brain Research  <http://brain.mpg.de/home.html>, the FIAS
<https://fias.institute/> and the Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience
<https://www.izn-frankfurt.de/en/>.

Major collaborator on this project is Dr. Francesco Battaglia from the
Donders Centre, Nijmegen.

Interested candidates are invited to send their application materials in
electronic form (PDF format) to martin.vinck at esi-frankfurt.de

Applications should contain a letter of intent, a detailed curriculum
vitae, lists of university courses completed with marks obtained, and the
names of at least two scientists who can give references (or at least two
reference letters). Please indicate which projects are of your core
interest. The advertisement will be valid until positions are filled.
Positions are not yet filled.
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