Job ID: 121843
ERC-funded PhD Positions in Experimental Neuroscience – 2025
Position: Ph.D. Student
Deadline: 28 February 2025
Employment Start Date: 2 July 2025
Contract Length: 4 years
City: Rovereto
Country: Italy
Institution: Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Department: Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory
Description:
The Gozzi laboratory, at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (www.iit.it) in Rovereto (Italy), invites applications for two PhD scholarship as part of the newly-funded ERC project BRAINAMICS.
Research at the Gozzi lab is aimed at understanding how the brain works as an integrated network in health and disease. The Gozzi lab addresses these questions by combining causal neural manipulations in rodents with functional neuroimaging methods (fMRI, fUS), multimodal recordings, and cutting-edge neuro-computational approaches.
The themes we are exploring cover experimental and computational neuroscience.
** Experimental Neuroscience **
1️⃣ Use of perturbational approaches to explore the neural mechanisms of fMRI dysconnectivity
2️⃣ Implementation of large-scale electrophysiology to investigate how synthetic brain rhythms propagate at the macroscale
(Please note: themes 1️⃣, 2️⃣ and 3️⃣ will require experimental work in rodents)
** Computational Neuroscience (in collaboration with Stefano Panzeri, UKE, Hamburg) **
4️⃣ Implementation of whole-brain in silico models of functional connectivity in the rodent brain
The studentships will be part of the international doctoral school in cognitive and brain sciences, in partnership with the University of Trento (http://web.unitn.it/en/cimec/). Final admission to the doctoral school will entail a competitive selection process, as per the doctoral school regulations.
Expressions of interest should include a detailed CV, a brief statement of research interests, contact details for two referees, and a copy of the master’s thesis (if available). Please specify the thematic area of interest and send all materials to alessandro.gozzi@iit.it.