PhD in Applied Mathematics

PhD position – Computational Neuroscience and Systems Biology Theme: Neural dynamics underlying survival behaviors/nAre you passionate about decoding how brain-wide neural dynamics generate behavior? TheStagkourakis Labat Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab in Stockholm is recruiting a PhD student in computational neuroscience. The lab is based at the Department of Neuroscience (Biomedicum) and is part of SciLifeLab, Sweden’s national center for large-scale biosciences and data-driven life science. Our mission is to uncover the neural and neurohormonal principles that govern instinctual and homeostatic behaviors, including aggression, fear, feeding, and social interactions./nWe seek a candidate who will contribute to analyzing and modeling large-scale neural population recordings acquired during naturalistic behaviors in freely moving animals. The project integrates graph-theoretic, dynamical systems, and machine learning approaches to understand how distributed neural ensembles encode internal states and drive survival behaviors./nAbout the Lab/nOur research combines large-scale in vivo electrophysiology (Neuropixels), two-photon imaging, optogenetics, and computational modeling to reveal the principles of neural circuit function. We maintain a strong commitment to technical innovation, behavioral rigor, and data-driven discovery, and our lab is part of an interdisciplinary environment connecting experimental and computational neuroscience./nLocation/nThe lab is located at: Biomedicum D8, Dept. of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Solnavägen 9, Solna.SciLifeLab Gamma 5, Tomtebodavägen 23A, Solna.