Within the Computational Neuroimaging group of Prof. Jesus Cortes at the BioCruces Health Research Institute (Bilbao, Spain), we are looking for a PhD student to develop and carry on a project aimed at identifying brain-connectivity biomarkers/descriptors(predictors) for brain pathologies/functional states.

The project will rely on subjects/patients databases both acquired locally at the Cruces University Hospital, or provided through external regional/international collaborations or freely available on the web.

The core of the study is based on the structural-functional brain modules, recently described in “A novel brain partition highlights the modular skeleton shared by structure and function” (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep10532), and identified by reconstructing simultaneously on the same subjects brain connectivity networks, using functional and diffusion MRI.

The PhD candidate will be also involved on a longitudinal multi-scale study of epileptic networks combining MRI and electrophysiological recordings in epileptic patients undergoing surgery. The project has been recently approved within the RETOS Spanish governmental grants.

The PhD candidate will be closely supervised by Prof. J. M. Cortes (http://www.jesuscortes.info/jesusweb/) and Dr. P. Bonifazi (http://www.ikerbasque.net/paolo.bonifazi) and will work in close collaboration with the MDs of Neurology, Neurophysiology and Neurosurgery Division of the Cruces Hospital.

The contract will be up to 3/4 years, with a gross salary of € 20,600 per year, with social security contributions and other recruitment costs paid by the host research institute (BioCruces).

 

Deadline for application is May the 11th.

Candidates with a deep interest in Neuroscience or Complex Networks and preferably with a solid background in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering or Medicine, are invited to send a motivation letter and the names of two referee to Dr. P. Bonifazi at paol.bonifazi@gmail.com.

We look forward your interest,

Yours

Paolo Bonifazi