Wednesday, August 14, 2013

[Comp-neuro] Melting neuroscience and robotics - PhD fellowships

Melting neuroscience and robotics - PhD fellowships
Deadline September 20th noon (Italian Time/CET)

A few selected PhD fellowships are offered at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department (RBCS) of the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa, Italy, addressing aspects of neuroscience and robotics from a scientific, technological and social perspective.

The fellowships  are offered within the curriculum of “Cognitive Robotics, Interaction and Rehabilitation Technologies” of the  PhD program “Bioengineering and Robotics” organized jointly by IIT and the University of Genoa.

If your goal is to learn how to work in a true multidisciplinary environment in close contact with engineers, biologists, psychologists, mathematicians, physicists, medical doctors, look at the RBCS Web-Site to see our history and current activities and infrastructure, browse through the description of the individual research themes offered this year to find what you like most and send your application after reading carefully the rather complicated application procedures (the first selection criterion is to be able to provide all documents in the right format before the deadline on September 20th, 2013 noon (Italian time/CET).

For general questions regarding the research environment at RBCS send a message to me (giulio.sandini@iit.it)  and for specific questions regarding the individual themes you can find the reference in the description of the individual research themes.
For questions regarding the application procedure write to Anastasia Bruzzone (anastasia.bruzzone@iit.it)

Hope you like what we plan to do (and what we have done already).

Giulio Sandini

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Prof. Giulio Sandini
Director Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Via Morego, 30 – 16163 Genova - Italy

 

Summary:
Deadline: September 20th, 2013 noon (Italian time/CET)
Site of application procedures (see also IIT’s unofficial unofficial tip & trics page)
Site of full description of the individual research themes and related contacts
Contact for general scientific questions: giulio.sandini@iit.it
Contact for clarifications on the application procedure: anastasia.bruzzone@iit.it

 

Titles of themes proposed this year and reference to contacts
(for a full description see the description of the individual research themes.)

1.  HAPTIC DEVICE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT, AND APPLICATION TO REHABILITATIVE TRAINING BASED ON MULTIMODAL ACTION OBSERVATION.  Contacts: michela.bassolino@iit.it , netta.gurari@iit.it , alberto.ansaldo@iit.it

2. SPEAKER INDEPENDENT RECOGNITION EXPLOITING SPEECH PRODUCTION KNOWLEDGE.  Contact: leonardo.badino@iit.it 

3. INTENTION-FROM-MOVEMENT UNDERSTANDING.  Contact: cristina.becchio@unito.it

4. DEVELOPING COGNITIVE MAPS FROM VIRTUAL OBJECTS: EXPLOITING SPATIAL ABILITIES THROUGH TACTILE SERIOUS GAMES. Contacts: luca.brayda@iit.it ; gabriel.baud-bovy@iit.it

5. INTRAOPERATIVE ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY IN HUMANS.  Contact: luciano.fadiga@iit.it

6. EVALUATION AND REHABILITATION IN CHILDREN WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENT. Contact: monica.gori@iit.it

7. ROBOTIC REHABILITATION. Contacts: pietro.morasso@iit.it, lorenzo.masia@iit.it  

8. ICUB WHOLE-BODY MOTION COORDINATION EXPLOITING DISTRIBUTED FORCE AND TACTILE SENSING: FROM SCENE INTERPRETATION TO ACTION SELECTION.  Contact: francesco.nori@iit.it

9. MULTI-CONTACT DYNAMIC ENGINE FOR ESTIMATION, PREDICTION, PERCEPTION AND MOTOR CONTROL. Contacts: francesco.nori@iit.it , lorenzo.natale@iit.it

10.  BIOCOMPATIBLE, LOW IMPEDANCE AND FLEXIBLE IN-VIVO NEURAL ELECTRODES.  Contacts: davide.ricci@iit.it ; luciano.fadiga@iit.it

11.  HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION.  Contact: alessandra.sciutti@iit.it

12.  INTERACTION FORCE IN OBJECT MANIPULATION. Contact: gabriel.baud-bovy@iit.it

13.  PLASTICITY OF BODY AND SPACE REPRESENTATIONS IN HEALTHY AND PATIENTS.  Contacts: thierry.pozzo@iit.it , michela.bassolino@iit.it 

16.  VISUAL PERCEPTION AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SOCIAL CUES.  Contacts: francesca.odone@unige.it , giulio.sandini@iit.it , or alessandra.sciutti@iit.it

 

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