The International Max Planck Research School on Computational Methods in Psychiatry and Ageing Research seeks applicants for a PhD fellowship to be based at University College London (UCL) under the supervision of Dr Dominik Bach (bachlab.org). The fellowship is funded by the European Research Council within the project “Action selection under threat – the complex control of human defense”. The purpose of the project is to understand the cognitive-computational control of human motor behaviour 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. The experimental research takes place at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging and at the Department for Clinical and Movement Neuroscience at UCL.

Deadline: 20 May 2020. Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in early June 2020 via Skype. Intake of students October 2020 (with the possibility for a later start date).

All infos on https://www.findaphd.com/phds/program/three-year-phd-in-cognitive-computational-neuroscience-at-university-college-london/?p3167

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Dominik R Bach MBBS PhD
Principal Research Fellow
MPCUCL & WCHN, University College London
http://bachlab.org | @bachlab_cog