Call for Application for Prospective Ph.D. Students
Code: 16167 - Psychology and Social Neuroscience
Research curriculum in Cognitive Social and Affective Neurosciences (CoSAN)
What: 3 three-year funded PhD positions in Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience (CoSAN) Programme
Who: Highly-motivated applicants with a deep interest in systems neuroscience and higher-order cognitive, affective and social functions are encouraged to apply.
Preferred Degrees: Psychology, Medicine, Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Computer graphics, Computer Science, Biomedical engineering, Statistics, Mathematics. Computer Programming skills are in particularly high demand.
Applications are invited from candidates who:
- hold an Italian Diploma di Laurea, Laurea Specialistica and Laurea Magistrale in any discipline,
- hold an equivalent second-level degree (generally equivalent to a Master’s Degree) obtained in any country, in any discipline
- expect to receive their degree award by October 31th 2018
Where:
Coordinator of the Programme: Prof. Salvatore Maria Aglioti, Director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory, Santa Lucia Foundation and Sapienza University of Rome
Stipend: Euro 15,343.82 per year, before taxes
Research Topics:
Neural correlates of cognitive, social and affective processes including:
- Bodily and brain correlates of Intergroup processing, stereotype and prejudice.
- Joint attention and joint action in healthy and brain damaged people.
- Intention, action and emotion understanding.
- Pain perception, empathy for pain, existential neuroscience.
- Body awareness and Self-Other distinction in healthy, spinal cord injured, and brain damaged people.
- Embodiment and agency in Immersive virtual reality.
Research Techniques:
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
- Transcranial electric Stimulation (tDCS, tACS)
- Electroencephalography (EEG), including:
- Somatosensory Evoked Potentials (SEP)
- Laser Evoked Potentials (LEP)
- Infrared Eye-tracking and Motion-tracking
- Thermal Imaging
- Immersive virtual reality (CAVE and Head mounted display)
- Lesion Mapping analysis
- fMRI
Admission is based on an evaluation of the skills and aptitude of the candidate, and the selection procedure includes two steps:
Phase 1: Evaluation of qualifications (evaluation will be published on July 19th 2018)
Phase 2: On site (or video-conference) interview (from September 25th 2018, h. 9.00 a.m.)
Application Deadline: Friday, July 6th 2018, h. 11.59 p.m.
Contacts:
Administrative Requests: Michela La Padula, michela.lapadula@uniroma1.it
Scientific Requests:
Salvatore M. Aglioti (salvatoremaria.aglioti@uniroma1.it), Matteo Candidi (matteo.candidi@uniroma1.it)