The Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG) at the University of Pennsylvania is a collaborative and interdisciplinary PhD program that is currently accepting applications for matriculation in the fall of 2016. We are particularly interested in attracting exceptional applicants with backgrounds in Neuroscience, Computer Science, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, and/or Psychology and are interested in the broadly defined field of Computational Neuroscience. We have a robust and interdisciplinary community of scholars in this field, including:

Vijay Balasubramanian, Physics

Danielle S Bassett, Bioengineering

David H Brainard, Psychology

Maja Bucan, Genetics

Johannes Burge, Psychology

Alice S Chen-Plotkin, Neurology

Brian Chow, Bioengineering

Yale E Cohen, Otorhinolaryngology

Diego Contreras, Neuroscience

Christopher M Fang-Yen, Bioengineering

Maria Neimark Geffen, Otorhinolaryngology

Joshua I Gold, Neuroscience

Joseph W Kable, Psychology

Michael J Kahana, Psychology

Max Kelz, Anesthesiology

Brian Litt, Neurology and Bioengineering

Minghong Ma, Neuroscience

Joel D Mainland, Neuroscience

Nicole C Rust, Psychology

Marc Schmidt, Biology

Robert G Smith, Neuroscience

Alan A Stocker, Psychology

Sharon Thompson-Schill, Psychology

Penn also has strong programs in Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology with faculty actively involved in machine learning, decision making, perception, and computational learning theory. NGG students are encouraged to pursue collaborations and interactions with these groups.

Penn also is home to a newly established Computational Neuroscience Initiative (https://cni.upenn.edu), which oversees many of our academic and research programs related to computational neuroscience.

The application deadline for the NGG is December 1, 2015. For more details please see our website: