[visionlist] PhD fellowships - perceptual/cognitive neuroscience, City College of New York

[Simon Kelly]

PhD fellowships - perceptual/cognitive neuroscience, City College of New
York

Applications are invited for 2 PhD fellowships starting as early as Fall
2011 to conduct basic and applied systems neuroscience research, focusing on
the brain mechanisms of attention and decision making, under the mentorship
of Simon Kelly (http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/people/faculty/skelly). The
fellowships are offered through the graduate program in Biomedical
Engineering in the City College of New York, and applicants must be sure
that they meet the program admission requirements (see
http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/academics/doctor/doctor.php). Successful applicants
will mainly employ the methods of human psychophysics and electrophysiology
in the newly renovated Neural Engineering suite in the CCNY BME department,
but will have opportunities to work with other neuroimaging and
neurophysiology techniques through collaborations, depending on the chosen
research topic. Aside from the quantitative skills necessary for the BME
grad program, the successful candidates will have strong communication
skills and will be able to interact effectively with researchers across
multiple neuroscience-related disciplines. Research projects will be adapted
to the combined interests of the candidate and mentor. In general projects
will emphasize task-specific top-down control over perception and will
always aim to establish within-subject relationships between neural signals
and behavioral performance.
Applicants are encouraged to take a look at some of the publications
available at http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/people/faculty/skelly to get a sense
of compatibility of research interests, and to email Dr. Kelly with a
statement of their interests and qualifications prior to their application.

Simon Kelly is a new addition to the Neural Engineering group within the BME
department in CCNY (http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/research/areas/neural.php). His
background and expertise in basic cognitive neuroscience and clinical
investigations complements the extensive skills and experience in
quantitative physiology, signal processing and instrumentation of the
existing members, Marom Bikson and Lucas Parra. This collaboration makes for
a comprehensive and multifaceted overall research program in neuroscience,
and a highly interactive, dynamic and social environment. The neuroscience
research community in the wider New York area is especially vibrant, with
plenty of opportunities for intellectual interaction and fruitful
collaboration with outstanding scientists and engineers outside the
department.


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Simon Kelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
City College of the City University of New York
160 Convent Ave, T208,
New York, NY, 10031
skelly2 at ccny.cuny.edu
ph: 646 402-1262
fax: 212 650-6727
http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/people/faculty/skelly
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