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Dr Fleur Zeldenrust
The Biophysics of Neural Computation group led by Fleur Zeldenrust is looking for a PhD candidate to investigate the relation between single neuron properties and neural network function using neural network models. You will use simulation experiments to investigate synaptic plasticity in the mouse somatosensory cortex upon sensory deprivation. You will also look whether the changes in the underlying network affect the accuracy and efficiency of information processing. For more information see: https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1128867
Walter Senn
The Senn lab offers a Postdoc or PhD position on a computational model of cortical self-attention (supported by EBRAINS 2.0). Based on our current work and a collaboration with The Virtual Brain (Marmaduke Woodman), we seek for an implementation of neuronal self-attention mechanisms in thalamo-cortical circuits. The model is inspired by transformer-type architectures, but is consistent with experimentally observed cortical connectivity patterns. It shall be trained on cognitive tasks while being constrained to human cortical recordings. The Senn lab also offers a Postdoc or PhD position on the Neuronal Least-Action principle and its extension to long-term temporal processing and spikes (supported by the SNSF). The framework offers a rigorous description of the neuronal dynamics in cortical networks together with gradient-based synaptic learning rules. It will be applied to integrate-and-fire neurons with multiple intrinsic time constants. The project links to implementations in spike-based neuromorphic hardware.
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