Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Constantine Dovrolis
The Cyprus Institute invites applications for a highly qualified and motivated individual to join the Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Data-Driven Computational Science at CaStoRC. The successful candidate will conduct fundamental research in one or more of the following areas: Data mining methods, Complex network analysis, Deep learning architectures, Cross-disciplinary applications of “big data” methods in climate science, smart farming, education, health, etc. The successful candidate will also work closely with the PI in writing relevant grant proposals.
Professor Amir Hussain
The UK EPSRC funded COG-MHEAR research programme is recruiting for a postdoctoral research fellow in multimodal hearing assistive technology.
Amir Hussain
The UK EPSRC funded COG-MHEAR research programme is recruiting for a postdoctoral research fellow in deep neural networks for multimodal hearing assistive technology, based at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, UK.
Constantine Dovrolis
The Cyprus Institute invites applications for a highly qualified and motivated individual to join the Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Machine Learning and Data Science for Climate Science in CaSToRC. The successful candidate will apply Machine Learning for investigating key processes of the Earth System, including (but not limited to) the following: Extreme event (weather, temperature, precipitation, etc.) risk detection, Data-driven and hybrid modeling of the Earth system, Using machine learning to develop new parameterizations for climate models, Causal inference in the context of climate change, Machine learning in support to air quality modelling for exposure mapping, super-resolution, short-term forecasts and long-term projections. The candidate will be working primarily with Prof. Constantine Dovrolis, Prof. Theo Christoudias and Prof. Johannes Lelieveld. The appointment is for a period of 2 years, with the possibility of renewal subject to performance and the availability of funds.
Prof. Dr. Verena V Hafner
The EU project METATOOL aims to provide a computational model of synthetic awareness to enhance adaptation and achieve tool invention. This will enable a robot to monitor and self-evaluate its performance, ground and reuse this information for adapting to new circumstances, and finally unlock the possibility of creating new tools. Under the predictive account of awareness, and based on both neuroscientific and archeological evidence, we will develop a novel computational model of metacognition based on predictive processing (metaprediction) and validate its utility in real robots in two use case scenarios: conditional sequential tasks and tool creation. At Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, we will develop and investigate computational models for tool-use and tool invention based on predictive processing paradigms. The models will be evaluated and implemented in robots interacting with tools in a real physical environment.
Adaptive deep brain stimulation to treat gait disorders in Parkinson's disease; Personalized chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation outperforms conventional stimulation in Parkinson's disease
On Friday, August 31st we will host Stephanie Cernera & Doris Wang! Stephanie Cernera, PhD, is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Starr lab at University of California San Francisco. She will tell us about “Personalized chronic adaptive deep brain stimulation outperforms conventional stimulation in Parkinson’s Disease”. Doris Wang, MD, PhD, is a neurosurgeon and assistant professor at the University of California San Francisco. Apart from her scientific presentation about “Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation to Treat Gait Disorders in Parkinson’s Disease”, she will give us a glimpse at the “Person behind the science”. The talks will be followed by a shared discussion. You can register via talks.stimulatingbrains.org to receive the (free) Zoom link!
Why do some animals have more than two eyes?
The evolution of vision revolutionised animal biology, and eyes have evolved in a stunning array of diverse forms over the past half a billion years. Among these are curious duplicated visual systems, where eyes can be spread across the body and specialised for different tasks. Although it sounds radical, duplicated vision is found in most major groups across the animal kingdom, but remains poorly understood. We will explore how and why animals collect information about their environment in this unusual way, looking at examples from tropical forests to the sea floor, and from ancient arthropods to living jellyfish. Have we been short-changed with just two eyes? Dr Lauren Sumner-Rooney is a Research Fellow at the OUMNH studying the function and evolution of animal visual systems. Lauren completed her undergraduate degree at Oxford in 2012, and her PhD at Queen’s University Belfast in 2015. She worked as a research technician and science communicator at the Royal Veterinary College (2015-2016) and held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (2016-2017) before arriving at the Museum in 2017.