PhD Candidate: Audio AI for Technological and Neuroscientific Applications at the Donders Centre for Cognition

Do you have a passion for research and are you interested in audio machine learning for technological and neuroscientific applications? Are you eager to tackle complex problems and to develop creative solutions? Then join the Donders Centre for Cognition as a PhD candidateUniversal audio embedding models capable of performing a humanlike range of hearing...

In this PhD position you will develop and analyse a new class of Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (such as Gibbs Sampling and Metropolis-Hastings) that make use of a novel technology that is currently only available in specialist labs. Using dedicated photonic manipulation, researchers can build covarying bits out of magnetic fields at the nanoscale that...

The project is embedded in Dr Inti Brazil’s SAMBA research group, part of the Donders Centre for Cognition, which in turn is part of the Donders Institute. The main focus of the group’s research programme is on combining approaches from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience (e.g. neuroimaging), computational modelling and statistical modelling...

Recent advances in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning have put artificial neural networks firmly on the map as a promising approach to both model and understand biological brains. This PhD project aims to harness the recent progress in AI to build computationally explicit models (Artificial Neural Networks, ANNs) that embody the...

This project aims to understand the neurocognitive relation between the development of referential communication and emotional action control, testing the hypothesis that both rely on the capacity of generating different hypothetical scenarios with different action options, and that this capacity (’alternative thinking’) can be differentiated from other...

A PhD position is available in Dr Janneke Jehee's lab at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. You will work on studies of visual decision-making, sensory uncertainty, and decision confidence. Research methods include computational modelling, brain imaging (fMRI, MEG), machine learning, behavioural methods, and other techniques.Virtually...

Visual cortical prostheses are devices designed to help restore some level of vision to blind individuals by directly stimulating the visual cortex of the brain. This process often involves using AI to interpret and encode visual data for effective communication to the brain. In the Neural Engineering Lab, we concentrate on this crucial step of interpreting...

Are you passionate about unraveling the mysteries of consciousness? And do you want to delve into fMRI, pupillometry, and information theory to understand how sensory predictions shape our perception of color? Then join Donders Centre for Cognition as a PhD candidate! This PhD project aims to address a primary challenge of consciousness research: to explain...

Are you fascinated by the connection between adapting communication and managing emotions? And do you want to contribute to research using a new neuroimaging technology to track neural activity during communicative and emotional control challenges? Then join the Donders Centre for Cognition as a PhD candidate! This project aims to understand the...

Are you fascinated by the connection between adapting communication and managing emotions? And do you want to contribute to research using a new neuroimaging technology to track neural activity during communicative and emotional control challenges? Then join the Donders Centre for Cognition as a PhD candidateThis project aims to understand the neurocognitive...

Are you passionate about unraveling the mysteries of consciousness? And do you want to delve into fMRI, pupillometry, and information theory to understand how sensory predictions shape our perception of color? Then join Donders Centre for Cognition as a PhD candidateThis PhD project aims to address a primary challenge of consciousness research: to explain...

Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are driving new applications in AI, data science and intelligent systems. Yet, their training demands significant computational power, leading to a need for energy-efficient techniques that work well on lightweight devices. Random sparse ANNs have shown promise in addressing this challenge. However, the full understanding...

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the BabyBRAIN lab. In this position, you will conduct research on learning and curiosity in early development, using behavioural, neuroscientific and modelling approaches. You will work closely with Prof. Sabine Hunnius and Dr Marlene Meyer and will be involved in the supervision of ongoing PhD...

Are you fascinated by the brain mechanisms behind perceptual decision making, sensory uncertainty, and decision confidence? Do you want to understand how we actively gather information across the senses to navigate an uncertain world? Join our multidisciplinary team as a PhD candidate to investigate these questionsAlmost every decision we make is accompanied...

As a PhD candidate, your main responsibility will be to work on research projects in generative machine learning. These projects require both training of deep neural networks on large datasets and performing theoretical analyses and calculations to elucidate their properties. In particular, you will become proficient in training and analysing...

The Centre for Language Studies (CLS) is looking for a PhD candidate for a project on the interplay of experience and concreteness in smell and flavour languages. We offer you the opportunity to develop and carry out your own PhD project within the areas of expertise of your supervisors (Prof. Margot van Mulken, Dr Ilja Croijmans and Dr Laura Speed). The...

Detecting gas-phase contaminations is a fundamental and ever-growing field. Safety and efficiency of many real-life applications depend on on-line monitoring of gas-phase contaminants. This PhD project aims at two of these important applications: I) contaminants in storage and the transfer of green hydrogen and II) contaminants in semiconductor...

As a coordinator at the Radboud Centre for Sustainability Challenges (RCSC), you will be responsible for further developing the centre into a hub where researchers and lecturers from different faculties work together on sustainability issues. Your duties will be both substantive and organisational in nature. As a discussion partner of researchers and...

Are you intrigued by the interplay between feedforward and feedback models in motor control? And are you curious about the role of expectation, attention, and emotion? Then join the interdisciplinary and intersectoral training network TReND as a PhD candidateWe offer a position for a PhD candidate/EU MSCA Fellow for the EU-funded Marie Skłodowska-Curie...

You will be working on the semantics and verification of systems software (libraries for concurrency, efficient data structures, compilers, and/or operating systems) using type systems, separation logic, and proof assistants. As part of this PhD project, you will contribute to one or more topics: - The type-theoretical foundations and implementation of the...