Two fully funded doctoral student positions in computational neuroscience for the duration of up to four years with very competitive compensation are available in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Georgia State University starting in fall 2020. The successful candidates will work with Dr. Yaroslav Molkov and his collaborators on neural control of breathing and locomotion. For more details, visit https://math.gsu.edu/ymolkov/.

The University: http://www.gsu.edu
Georgia State University is the Southeast's leading urban research institution. It is on the list of the top 100 public universities for doctoral degrees awarded. More than 250 fields of study are offered through some 55 accredited degree programs at the bachelor's, master’s, specialist and doctoral levels. Our student body is the best qualified and most diverse in our history. More than 40,000 students are seeking degrees at Georgia State, and more than 28,000 of them are on campus each semester. Students come to our campus from every county in Georgia, every state in the nation and 160 countries. The campus is located in the heart of downtown Atlanta.

The Department: http://mathstat.gsu.edu
Currently, the department has twenty seven tenured or tenure-track faculty members, fourteen lecturers and academic professionals, and about eighty graduate students. The Department’s faculty members are very active in research and publication. They regularly publish in top-ranked journals, more than 1/3 of the research faculty members are supported by various federally funded grants, and several members have been serving on editorial boards of journals. They have been directing PhD dissertations and MS theses within the department, joint with other departments of the College of Arts and Sciences, and in conjunction with other universities.


For additional information, please contact Dr. Molkov, Email: ymolkov@gsu.edu.
 
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Yaroslav Molkov, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics/Neuroscience Institute
Georgia State University
25 Park Place, Atlanta, GA 30303, Room 1415
Phone: (404) 413-6422