PhD in Neural Engineering

Are you interested in developing neurotechnologies for treating brain disorders? In this PhD you will work with datasets of neuronal activity in animals and humans. You will apply computational approaches to describe spatial and temporal patterns across different neurons in the neocortical circuit and use them for closed-loop brain stimulation. By examining how these spatiotemporal dynamics relate to behaviour, you will develop new brain decoding methods and test the extent to which these generalise across brain areas and species. You will be working with an interdisciplinary team led by Prof Andrew Jackson funded by the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) that is using state-of-the-art multielectrode technologies to obtain high-resolution recordings from inside the brain. You will become an expert in the latest AI approaches to interpreting these large datasets, as well as computational models that capture low-dimensional structure that reflects the architecture of the neocortex. By working with researchers developing new brain stimulation methods, you will contribute to developing closed-loop algorithms for regulating brain dynamics with clinical applications in epilepsy and psychiatric disorders.