The Turing Centre for Living Systems (CENTURI) https://centuri-livingsystems.org/ wishes to attract talented PhD students to the Luminy campus in Marseille.

To do so, CENTURI will fund up to 18 PhD positions to start in 2020.

PhD students will work in an interdisciplinary life science environment, and have backgrounds in any of the following fields: neurobiology, biophysics, theoretical physics, computer science, bioinformatics, applied mathematics, engineering.

We advertise the following project for our labs : Deciphering the role of grid cells in local modulations of spatial coding resolution project #16

For this project PhD student will be co-supervised by three supervisors two from system neuroscience (Jérôme Epsztein and Julie Koenig) one from Computer science (Kevin Perrot).

Deadline for application: February 16, 2020
Duration: 3 years
On-site interviews: April 28 to April 30, 2020

Expected profile – selection criteria

Candidates will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

• Academic achievements
• Past research experience (internships, master thesis)
• Interest to work in a multidisciplinary research environment
• Enthusiasm and communication skills

More information on the project and application: https://centuri-livingsystems.org/phd2020-16/

Applications must include the following documents, in English (compiled into a single PDF file):

• CV
• cover letter
• transcript of your MSc’s grades (M1 and M2 if available)
• 2 letters of recommendation must also be sent by your references at info@centuri-livingsystems.org.

Do not hesitate to contact us directly would you need further information:
jerome.epsztein(at)inserm.fr
julie.koenig(at)inserm.fr
kevin.perrot(at)lis-lab.fr
Jerome, Julie and Kevin