This email is to announce 2 open PhD positions in Human Robotics / Computational Neuroscience / Psychophysics at Imperial College London (http://www.imperial.ac.uk/).
Humans constantly learn new motor tasks and adapt to changing environmental conditions, for example during growth. To study this motor learning, we observe how human subjects control motion in force fields produced by a robotic interface. We analyze force, trajectory, muscle activation and brain activity during movement to develop computer models for rehabilitation and to improve the control of robots interacting with human motion (http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/staff/burdet/, http://guppy.mpe.nus.edu.sg/~eburdet/). Such research stems from and has potential in neuroscience, robotics and rehabilitation.
The first position, requiring a background in physics/control/robotics, is to develop computational models of the novel kind of learning we have discovered (see e.g. Nature 414:446-9). The developed nonlinear adaptive controllers will mimic the observed muscle activity patterns, and may lead to novel controllers for robotics rehabilitation and dexterous robotic manipulation.
The second position, requiring background in neuroscience/psychology and robotics/control, will design and analyze experiments to investigate the control of hand and finger movements using functional MRI and a compatible robotic interface, with patients and healthy subjects, in collaboration with research teams in Switzerland.
These positions are funded in priority for European citizens, however candidates from other nationalities with co-funding are welcome to apply. For further information please contact:
Etienne BURDET (e.burdet@ic.ac.uk)
http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/staff/burdet/
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London, UK
South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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