Global St Andrews and Bonn Doctoral Scholarship - Psychology and Neuroscience

The University of St Andrews and the University of Bonn are pleased to offer a scholarship funded by both institutions, to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the project 'Neuromodulatory gating of plasticity in olivo-cerebellar prediction-error circuits'. Students will enrol at both institutions from the outset and are expected to spend 50% of their time at each institution. The highly collaborative project will combine modelling and experiment to address fundamental questions about how the brain decides when to change its predictions and how it adapts rapidly to surprises. The project leverages complementary expertise within Bonn and St Andrews, using computer models to generate precise hypotheses and testing them in larval zebrafish using modern imaging and targeted perturbations. The student will be supervised by Dr Maarten Zwart at St Andrews and Prof. Tatjana Tchumatchenko at Bonn.