Project Title:
Quantitative models of human motor control in healthy and clinical populations
Project Description:
The laboratory recruits highly motivated people to work in a dynamic environment on motor control and systems neuroscience. This research project aims to build models of human sensorimotor coordination based on current theories of motor control, and extend them to explore new hypotheses on how these models can integrate contextual factors linked to adaptation, memory, perception, and decision-making. The project will also investigate how these models can explain abnormal movements in clinical populations. The project will draw on a broad range of motor systems, including locomotion, reaching control, object manipulation and eye movements. We will combine theoretical models, behavioral experiments in healthy and clinical populations and electrophysiological recordings. Applications for a doctoral program (4 years, fully funded) or postdoctoral training (2 years) are encouraged. In both cases, opportunities to attract individual funding will be explored.
Host Institution and Supervision
The successful candidate will be appointed with the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM, division of Applied Mathematics, https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/icteam ) and corss-appointed with the Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS, division Systems and Cognition https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ions ). The research will be supervised by F. Crevecoeur (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=-EEfvcEAAAAJ&view_op=list_works )
Requirements
For applications to a PhD position:
For an application to a postdoc position:
For both:
Applications
Applications should be sent to F. Crevecoeur: frederic.crevecoeur@uclouvain.be as a single PDF document with a letter of motivation, a CV and one (doctoral) or two (postdoctoral) letters of recommendation. The tentative application deadline is July 17 with an anticipated start in fall 2024, please send any requests for additional information to: frederic.crevecoeur@uclouvain.be.
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