Wellcome Tust Funded PhD - Neural Dynamics

 
The project: A vital key to comprehending the brain is to understand how the complex changes in activity occurring at all levels of neural organization give rise to normal brain function. Furthermore, an understanding of normal brain activity will allow us to investigate abnormalities of neural dynamics that underlie many neurological and psychiatric disorders (e.g. epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia).
Understanding neural dynamics requires interdisciplinary approaches that span many neuroscience areas, but crucially, also depends on the integration of experimental and clinical approaches with mathematical and computational expertise. This PhD programme trains a future generation of neuroscientists to successfully combine experimental and theoretical techniques in their research.
Structure of the programme: First year: students attend taught courses to gain an understanding of the biology of the nervous system and the ability to describe systems dynamics in mathematical models. Students carry out two extended research projects, each investigating dynamics in a different neural system. Each project is co-advised by one experimental or clinical neuroscientist and one mathematician or computer scientist. Subsequent years: Students develop one of the initial projects into a PhD project for the remaining 3 years.
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Desired skills and experience

Applicants will have a 1st class/2.1 degree or a Masters in a biomedical science discipline or a relevant theoretical discipline (mathematics, computer science or physics). Crucially, we are looking for talented and motivated students willing to take up the many challenges in neural dynamics and who are open to learning about new disciplines and working across different fields.
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Please select ‘Faculty of Biomedical Sciences’, and then ‘Wellcome Trust 4-year PhD in Neural Dynamics’ for the programme choice.