[Comp-neuro] PhD Position in BCI, Univ. Medical Center Hamburg

*PhD Student Position in Brain-Computer Interfaces*

The International Research Training Group Hamburg – Beijing/China
(Internationales Graduierten­kolleg) on Cross-modal Interaction in Natural and
Artificial Cognitive Systems (CINACS) is seeking a highly qualified and
motivated candidate for a doctoral position in Brain-Computer Interfaces
(BCI).

The training group is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the
State of Ham­burg, and the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of
China. The candidate will also collaborate with the project "MULTISENSE –
The merging of the senses: understanding multisensory experience", funded
by an ERC Advanced Investigators Grant. The major goal of this project is the
investigation of dynamic, large-scale neural interactions and the
characterization of functional networks during multisensory processing in the
human brain, using techniques such as MEG, EEG, TMS, tACS and eye
tracking.

The dissertation project will be carried out at the Dept. of Neurophysiology
and Pathophysiology of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
(UKE). The UKE is the largest hospital in Hamburg, comprising 14 centers
with 80 clinical and research departments. The Dept. of Neuro­physiology and
Pathophysiology is headed by Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel. The research of
Prof. Engel's group focuses on cognitive and sensorimotor functions, which
are studied in humans and animal models using neurophysiological and
neuroimaging techniques. The project will build on strong interactions with
the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at the Tsinghua University in Beijing,
China. Tsinghua University is among China's top universities, and the Dept. of
Biomedical Engin­eering hosts one of the world's leading BCI research teams.
The project will be focused on the integration of different modalities (e.g.,
vision, audition, and touch) into a unified BCI system. Using several
modalities allows to employ proven BCI paradigms to increase the number of
control channels. Research questions will be the possibility of gaining ad­
ditional information from switching attention between modalities, and the
emergence of immersive control of the system after training with such a
multimodal BCI system. Potential applications of the system to be developed
are not only in classical BCI application fields like rehabilitation and
prosthetics, but rather envisaged in everyday usage for computer control or in
computer games.

Applicants should have a master in computer science, physics or engineering,
and excellent programming skills, as well as expertise in methods in signal
processing, pattern recognition and classification. Experience in human
electrophysiology would be an asset, but is not required. The position will be
funded for up to three years, beginning Oct. 2012 or later. Applicants can
have any nationality, female applicants are particularly welcome.

Informal inquiries can be directed to Dr. Alexander Maye (a.maye@uke.de).
Applicants should send their curriculum vitae, a statement of research
interests, as well as names of two referees to Prof. Dr. Andreas K. Engel,
Institut für Neurophysiologie und Pathophysiologie, Universitätsklinikum
Ham­burg-Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany.

Web ressources:
www.cinacs.org www.tsinghua.edu.cn
www.uke.de/neurophysiologie www.multisense.org
www.40Hz.de

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