dsp PhD Projects, Programs & Scholarships

Next Generation SDR Architectures and Subsystems

University of Sheffield
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Mr E Ball

Applications accepted all year round

Applications are invited on the theme described below, as part of The University of Sheffield’s Communications Research Group and the Advanced Radio Technology Centre.

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MRC Precision Medicine DTP: Defining phenotypic diversity of endometriosis-associated macrophages and signals responsible for their recruitment and differentiation

University of Edinburgh
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Dr E Greaves, Dr C Vallejos, Dr S Jenkins, Prof A Horne

Application Deadline: 7 January 2019

Background. Endometriosis affects 176 million women worldwide and is associated with debilitating pelvic pain and/or infertility.

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Millimetre Wave & Microwave RF Circuits and Systems

University of Sheffield
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Mr E Ball

Applications accepted all year round

Applications are invited on the theme described below, as part of The University of Sheffield’s Communications Research Group and the Advanced Radio Technology Centre.

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Characterizing sensory signalling at nanoscale and millisecond-order resolution

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Prof K Staras

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Neurons communicate by the release of neurotransmitter-containing vesicles at the synapse (see Staras, Neuron 2012). Everything that we see or hear depends on the operation of synapses that are specialized to transmit sensory information.

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Elemental perceptual process in insect vision for navigation

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Dr J Niven, Dr P Graham

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Visual navigation, by which animals find places (e.g. home) defined by memories of a visual scene, has basic similarities across a wide range of species from ants to humans.

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How do nitric oxide synthase interneurons modulate information processing and control blood flow?

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Dr C Hall, Prof M Maravall

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Sensory processing is regulated by diverse populations of interneurons that modulate excitatory neuronal activity to shape information transmission.

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Plasticity of visual processing in primary visual cortex

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Prof L Lagnado

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

The responses of pyramidal neurons in primary visual cortex (V1) of mice are altered under different behavioural states.

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Putting the spotlight on taste: behavioural and optical interrogation of the neural mechanisms of hedonic taste perception

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Dr E Koya, Dr H C Crombag

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Our sense of taste and ability to derive pleasure from foods are essential for survival. Taste also guides our food preferences and aversions, reinforces appetitive learning, and adds pleasure to a mundane, but essential activity to maintain health.

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The role of non-synaptic interactions in odour object recognition

University of Sussex
School of Life Sciences

Prof T Nowotny, Prof G Kemenes

Application Deadline: 31 January 2019

Odorants are chemicals in the air that animals can detect with their olfactory organs to gather information about their environment.

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Pre-doctoral Research Position in Radar Engineering: RF-system design and/or signal-processing

Johannes-Kepler University Linz
Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems

Prof Andreas Stelzer

Applications accepted all year round

The RF-Systems group of the Institute for Communications Engineering and RF-Systems (http://www.jku.at/nthfs) at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) offers positions for pre-doctoral researchers that are to be filled as soon as possible.

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