The Poirazi lab is recruiting two PhD students as part of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Innovative Training Network “SmartNets”

The objective of SmartNets is to provide high-level training into the functioning of biological networks to a new generation of early stage researchers, to provide them with the skills necessary for thriving careers in a burgeoning area that underpins innovative technological development across a range of diverse disciplines. This goal will be achieved by a unique combination of “hands-on” research training, non-academic placements (industrial and non-profit organisations) and courses and workshops on both scientific and complementary -so-called “soft”- skills facilitated by the academic-non-academic composition of the consortium. SmartNets brings together neuroscientists, behavioural and cognitive scientists, physicists, computer scientists, and non-profit stakeholders in order to train the next generation of data scientists that will: 1) develop a fundamental understanding of the relationship between structure and function in biological networks and 2) translate this knowledge into novel technological solutions. ESRs will develop a unique interdisciplinary set of skills that will make them capable of analyzing networks at many levels and for many systems.

Mobility Rule: PhD students must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the host for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention, are not taken into account.

There are two available positions, corresponding to the two projects listed below:

Project 1: Role of dendritic nonlinearities in V1 network properties after visual learning.
Project 2: Role of dendritic nonlinearities in hippocampal network properties after contextual and spatial learning.

for more details on each project please visit:
http://www.dendrites.gr/en/open-positions-967/marie-curie-etn-smartnets-11

Vacancy terms: Full Time, Fixed Term starting from 1st of April 2021 for 1 year (renewable for 2 more years).

Living allowance: 34,800 € per annum (approximately 22,800 € Net). Depending on family status, successful candidates will also have mobility (600 € per month) and/or family (250 € per month) allowance, as provided by MSCA grants.

Shortlisted applicants will be invited for an (online) interview.