[Maths-neuronet] EU/UK PhD studentships in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience

[Terry, John]

We seek to recruit two Research Fellows to work with Professor John Terry on an MRC Programme Grant: “Brain Networks in Epilepsy: Endophenotypes and Generative Models”. These posts form part of a large scale research effort involving collaborators at King’s College London and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Brisbane) and are available from July 1, 2013 or a mutually agreeable date thereafter, for an initial period of 3 years. You are encouraged to contact Professor Terry via email: ***@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:***@exeter.ac.uk> prior to submitting an application.

The successful applicants will work on a multidisciplinary project involving the development of mathematical models, network analysis tools and methods for fusing models and data. Working closely with clinical scientists at King’s College London, developed methods will be applied to clinical data (including EEG, fMRI and DTI) collected from a very large sample of patients with epilepsy. These will be used to elucidate the fundamental mechanisms of seizure emergence and to predict treatment outcome.
The successful applicants will have experience in at least one of the following areas:

- - Constructing mathematical models of biological or neural systems;

- -Analysis of nonlinear and/or stochastic dynamical systems;

- -Numerical methods for analysing dynamical systems (e.g. bifurcation analysis and numerical continuation)

- -Analysis of complex networks or graph theory
Applicants should have a PhD in computational or mathematical biology, complex networks and graph theory, systems biology, computational neuroscience, nonlinear dynamical systems or a closely related discipline. It is further desirable that the candidate has experience of working in a multidisciplinary environment, ideally interacting with clinicians or experimental neuroscientists.

For further details and to apply please visit:

https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=3996127MDt&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA


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John R. Terry
Professor of Biomedical Modelling
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4QF, UK
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email: ***@exeter.ac.uk<mailto:***@exeter.ac.uk>
web: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/mathematics/staff/jt354

[Krasi Tsaneva]

We seek to recruit a Research Fellow to undertake research into mathematical modelling and control of human social interactions. You will contribute to a joint venture between movement scientists from Montpellier 1 University in France, computer science experts from the DFKI centre (Germany), mathematicians from the University of Bristol (UK), roboticists from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (CH), as well as clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists from the Academic Hospital of Montpellier (CHRU, FR).
You will have an excellent background in mathematics and/or engineering, and should be committed to applying their research to make real artificial agents’ systems interacting with people in challenging circumstances. You will possess a relevant PhD and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in mathematical modelling, numerical bifurcation analysis and feedback control design in order to work within the project. You are expected to produce reliable mathematical models; feedback control strategies and numerical algorithms that i) allow real-time adaptation of the coupled human-artificial agent dynamics based on feedback control techniques and ii) integrate all parts of the interactive cognitive architecture together.

For informal enquires please contact:

Dr KT Tsaneva-Atanasova, Reader in Applied Mathematics

Email: K.Tsaneva-***@bristol.ac.uk

For further details and to apply please visit:

http://www.bris.ac.uk/jobs/find/list.html?keywords=&jobnum=ACAD100163&srcsubmit=Search&statlog=1&ID=Q50FK026203F3VBQBV7V77V83&mask=uobext&LG=UK


Dr Krasimira Tsaneva-Atanasova
Reader (Associate Professor) in Applied Mathematics
Department of Engineering Mathematics
University of Bristol
Queen's Building
Bristol BS8 1TR, UK

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