Two PhD positions: “Computational and Neurobiological Foundations of Interval Timing” (Groningen)
Applications are invited from highly motivated candidates for two fully funded/salaried PhD positions to participate in a newly funded multi-partner European project. TIMESTORM promotes time perception as a fundamental capacity of autonomous biological and computational systems. The project aims to explore time as a fundamental and integral dimension of the mind, and to design and develop artificial computational systems that implement the fundamental temporal nature of cognition and behavior. The available positions, in the group of dr. Van Rijn at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Groningen, will involve cognitive neuroscience research and computational modeling on the neurobiological basis of time perception.
The ideal candidates for these positions will have a strong interest in the neuroscience of temporal cognition, and have the ambition to unravel how the sense of time is instantiated in the brain and to explain how time influences behavior by means of computational models. The successful applicants will have acquired the skills to independently run studies in human cognitive neuroscience, and have experience in the analysis (preferably in MATLAB and/or R) and presentation of experimental research. Applicants must have (or obtain in the near future) a Master degree in a relevant neuroscience- or artificial-intelligence related discipline. Excellent proficiency in English, especially in writing, is required. The project team at the University of Groningen that supports the PhD candidate consists of scientists from different departments (dr. Van Rijn, Experimental Psychology; prof. dr. Niels Taatgen, Artificial Intelligence; prof. dr. Ritske de Jong, Experimental Psychology), with additional support provided by the international TIMESTORM partners (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Imperial College London; Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex; Université Blaise Pascal Clermont-Ferrand; FORTH, Crete). English is the working language within the research group.
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