PhD Position in Neuroimaging, LLM, Genetics and Cross-species comparison

A four-year PhD project in the Connectome Lab of Prof. Martijn van den Heuvel (CNCR, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on how human brain organisation varies across individuals and species and how that diversity emerged during evolution. The candidate analyses large structural MRI, diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI datasets, builds pipelines for tractography and connectome analysis, integrates genetics (GWAS) with neuroimaging, performs human and non-human comparative analyses, and uses large language models for data mining.

Applications close on 15 December 2026.

MSc in neuroscience, neuroimaging, genetics, biomedical engineering, physics, computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics, psychology, biology or a related quantitative discipline.