Neuroscience: Ruhr University Bochum

Degree: Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Address: Neuroscience: Ruhr University Bochum, International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, FNO 01/114, Universitätsstr 150, Bochum, 44780, Germany
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Subject: Health Sciences and Human Body
Course Language(s): English
Course Beginning: 1-Oct
Duration: 6 semester (3 years)
App Deadline: 31-Jan
Submit Application To: International Graduate School of Neuroscience, Ruhr University Bochum, FNO 01/116, Universitätsstr. 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
Scholarship and Grants: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn/admis...
Telephone: +49.234.322.6955
Fax: +49.234.32 1.4490
E-mail: i...@rub.de
Website: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn

About the programme

The Ph.D. in Neuroscience is based on completion of graduate course work, qualifying examination, research, and a dissertation and defense.

For the Ph.D. programme applicants must hold a Masters, Diploma or equivalent degree in biology, chemistry, electrical engineering, mathematics, psychology, or other related fields which includes an experimental thesis. Medical students must hold the equivalent of a MD.

Candidates will prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of Neuroscience (project duration: 3 years).

Research topics are

olfaction
vision and acting
robotics
learning and memory
cortical and synaptic plasticity
neuron-glia interaction
signal transduction
cerebral asymmetries
clinical neuropsychology
neurodegenerative diseases
computational neuroscience and developmental neuroscience.

The study programme includes a semester-wide Neuroscience Lecture "From Molecules to Cognition", verbal and written thesis proposals, progress reports and a final report, semester-wide lecture series with external speakers, annual workshops and special symposia, course in grant writing and technical training.

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