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Katharina Wilmes

Zürich, Switzerland
Apply by Sep 26, 2025

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Sep 26, 2025

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Katharina Wilmes

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Zürich, Switzerland

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Application Deadline

Sep 26, 2025

Start Date

Flexible

Education Required

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Katharina Wilmes

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Zürich, Switzerland

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Job Description

We are looking for highly motivated Postdocs or PhD students, interested in computational neuroscience, specifically addressing questions concerning neural circuits underlying perception and learning. The perfect candidate has a strong background in math, physics or computer science (or equivalent), programming skills (python), and a strong interest in biological and neural systems. A background in computational neuroscience is ideal, but not mandatory. Our brain maintains an internal model of the world, based on which it can make predictions about sensory information. These predictions are useful for perception and learning in the uncertain and changing environments in which we evolved. The link between high-level normative theories and cellular-level observations of prediction errors and representations under uncertainty is still missing. The lab uses computational and mathematical tools to model cortical circuits and neural networks on different scales.

Requirements

  • The perfect candidate has a strong background in math
  • physics or computer science (or equivalent)
  • programming skills (python)
  • and a strong interest in biological and neural systems. A background in computational neuroscience is ideal
  • but not mandatory.