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<p class=""><span class="">Dear all,</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">we are currently advertising the following three 4-year PhD positions for our lab with application deadlines early next year. </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">The funding covers living expenses and UK/EU fees over four years and, using overseas research studentships, potentially also the higher fees for non-EU applicants.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Students are chosen in competition with students who choose projects in other fields, which means that we would particularly encourage strong applicants with very good academic marks and previous research experience to apply. </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Please follow the links below for more information. </span></p>
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<p class=""><span class=""><b>Newcastle-DTA PhD studentships</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">(1) <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/dta/documents/2016-Kaiser-122.pdf"><span class="">Building brains: Which developmental pathways lead to better performance in information processing?</span></a></span><span class=""> (School: Computing Science Ref: DTA122)</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Within this project, a student will help to develop detailed simulations of brain network development. In addition, the student will test the performance of the grown networks on visual tasks. Through this, we will investigate (a) how developmental mechanisms are linked to the resulting topology and (b) how the resulting network is linked to processing performance. As a result, we will get a better understanding how changes during development are linked to brain architecture and how they can lead to cognitive deficits.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Supervisors: </span><span class="">Prof. Marcus Kaiser, Dr Gavin Clowry, and Dr Roman Bauer</span></p>
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<p class=""><span class="">(2) <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/dta/documents/2016-Kaiser-123.pdf"><span class="">Predicting patient outcomes following traumatic brain injury</span></a></span><span class=""> (School: Computing Science Ref: DTA123)</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">In this study we will investigate the impact of simulated brain lesions using human brain connectivity data and computer simulations. We shall aim to produce biomarkers for patient outcomes. These techniques may hive wider applications in stroke, multiple sclerosis and ageing.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Supervisors: </span><span class="">Prof. Marcus Kaiser and Dr Peter Taylor</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Please <b>apply by 22 January</b> at <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/dta/"><span class="">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/dta/</span></a></span></p>
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<p class=""><span class=""><b>Newcastle-Singapore PhD studentships</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">(3) <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/singapore/documents/Improvingsurgeryinfocalepilepsyusingcomputationalmodelling.pdf"><span class="">Improving surgery in focal epilepsy using computational modelling </span></a></span><span class="">(School: Computing Science Ref: NSS12)</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">In this project we shall attempt to predict which patients will be seizure free after surgery using human brain connectivity information of patients. For those patients predicted to be not seizure free we shall suggest alternative strategies for surgery. See also our recent article in PLOS CB: <a href="http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/metrics/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1004642"><span class="">http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/metrics/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1004642</span></a></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Supervisors: </span><span class="">Dr. Peter Taylor, Prof. Marcus Kaiser, and Asst. Prof. Justin Dauwels (NTU, Singapore). </span><span class="">The student will be based at Newcastle but also visit Singapore</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Please <b>apply by 26 February</b> at <a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/singapore/"><span class="">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sage/study/postgrad/singapore/</span></a></span></p>
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<p class=""><span class=""><b>Research Environment</b></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">There are currently 12 faculty members with a link to neuroinformatics and computational neuroscience. Using computational models for clinical applications is a strong interest of our group (see <a href="http://neuroinformatics.ncl.ac.uk/"><span class="">http://neuroinformatics.ncl.ac.uk</span></a>/ for an overview). Students will be based in the School of Computing Science, which was ranked #9 for research and #1 for impact in the recent UK Research Excellence Framework evaluation, as part of the ICOS Group (<a href="http://ico2s.org/"><span class="">http://ico2s.org/</span></a> ). They will also be affiliated with the Institute of Neuroscience which integrates more than 100 principal investigators across medicine, psychology, computer science, and engineering and which was ranked #9 overall and #5 for impact in the UK (<a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion"><span class="">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion</span></a>/). </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Newcastle University, with 20,000 students, lies in the city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne -- an area in the North-East of England with around one million inhabitants. The university is at the centre of Newcastle which itself is on the main train-line between London and Edinburgh, 20 minutes away from both the airport and the sand beach by public transport (<a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/city/"><span class="">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/about/visit/city/</span></a> ). </span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">We also offer a one-year master programme in Computational Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics (<a href="http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/study/postgrad/taught/5199/"><span class="">http://www.ncl.ac.uk/computing/study/postgrad/taught/5199/</span></a> ) which is now accepting applications.<br clear="all"></span></p><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
<p></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>Best,<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> Marcus</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span>--</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Marcus Kaiser, Ph.D. </span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="https://twitter.com/ConnectomeLab" target="_blank">@ConnectomeLab</a><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Professor in Neuroinformatics<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex Biosystems (ICOS) Research Group<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">School of Computing Science<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Newcastle University<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Claremont Tower<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK</span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Lab website:<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://www.dynamic-connectome.org/" target="_blank">http://www.dynamic-connectome.org</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">/ </span></p><p style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Neuroinformatics@Newcastle:<br></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><a href="http://neuroinformatics.ncl.ac.uk/" target="_blank">http://neuroinformatics.ncl.ac.uk</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"> </span><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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