[visionlist] PhD in Motion Perception

[Johnston, Alan]

PhD studentship in Motion Perception.
Applications are invited for a fully funded PhD studentship in the Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences, UCL, under the supervision of Prof Alan Johnston in collaboration with Dr Shin’ya Nishida, NTT. The studentship is jointly funded by UCL and NTT Communication Science Laboratories. The aim of the project is to investigate how we encode the properties of objects in motion. The student will work closely with vision scientists who are working on how motion affects the apparent position of objects, how human observers compute image flow, how we encode facial expression and how we perceive dynamic physical properties, such as viscosity or elasticity, from the image flow. The PhD would be based in the UCL Vision Research Lab directed by Prof Alan Johnston at UCL. For more information visit the lab website: http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/vision/Lab_Site/Home.html. The laboratory is exceptionally well equipped for research in human vision and computer vision with a number of psychophysics laboratories and a 128 core compute cluster running parallel Matlab for computationally intensive research.
Applicants should have a good upper second or first-class degree in a cognitive discipline (e.g. psychology, cognitive science, computer science) or have excellent computational or mathematical skills and a strong interest in vision. They should also have excellent written and verbal communication skills. A relevant Masters degree and programming experience (e.g. in Matlab, C/C++) would be an advantage. The studentship will carry a stipend of £15,590 and fees at UK/EU rates. The studentship will start as soon as possible and before 1st March 2013.
Applicants are invited to apply by e-mail to a.esposito at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:rosalyn.lawrence at ucl.ac.uk> attaching a CV and transcripts where available and a one page supplementary personal statement explaining why they wish to apply for this studentship by the closing date of 19th October 2012. The CV must state the degree class achieved (or the current average grade) and should also include the names and contacts details of two academic referees, who may be approached at the interview stage.


Alan Johnston
Research Strategy Director, CoMPLEX
Professor of Psychology
Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences
University College London
Gower Street
London
WC1E 6BT
Tel +44 (0)20 7679 5310 (x25310)
Fax  +44 (0)20 7436 4276
a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk<mailto:a.johnston at ucl.ac.uk>










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