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Bi-nationales Promotionsprogramm Leipzig-Newcastle
„From Signal Processing to Behaviour“ (SiPB)
Kai Alter
General information
• What?
• Benefits for our PhD students
• How to apply
What is this program about?
• to establish a cooperative doctorate program between the
Universities
• and to foster academic research and scholarly cooperation by
supporting the mobility of doctoral candidates
• considerable funding from the DAAD to establish a joint worldclass Doctoral Exchange Program to train the next generation
of scientists
• offering PhD students a wealth of opportunities to work with
research leaders across a wide range of biological, medical,
and neuroscience subjects inside SiPB
Why Leipzig?
Faculty of Medicine:
Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research
Institute of Anatomy
Clinic of Neurology
Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology
Clinic for Psychiatry
Rudolf Boehm Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology
Department of Neurosurgery
Faculty of Bioscience, Pharmacy, and Psychology:
Institute for Biology
Institute of Psychology I
Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences:
Institute for Experimental Physics I
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
Benefits for our PhD students
• To learn a new technique
• To add more data employing an existing technique
• To get a different view on data acquisition and interpretation
• To learn how to publish
• To enter a new network for future work
• To have demonstrated survival capacities in a different culture
• This will certainly add another feather on their heads
Benefits for our PhD students
• Co-supervision with Leipzig experts
• Access to labs and techniques for free
• No language barrier
• All PhD programs are taught in English
• International Post-Graduate School
• Help with accommodation, administration etc.
How to apply
• Identify a potential co-supervisor
• Contact Kai and/or our coordinator Dr Nicole Richter
• Contact co-supervisor
• Arrange date of visit
Where are we so far….
• One student from Leipzig in Newcastle
• Three more Newcastle students expressed interest
• Workshop in December 2011 in Leipzig (12 IoN members)
• Chris Petkov and students visiting Leipzig in March 2012