Be Part of the Institute for Neuroinformatics
We're hiring! Join the Institute for Neuroinformatics at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
The Grewe Lab is a group that collaborates and promotes inclusivity, aiming to enhance comprehension of how the brain learnes and to use insights from neuroscience to improve algorithms used in Machine learning.
Open positions
Postdoctoral Fellows and PhD Students in Neuroscience
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Master Thesis and Semester Projects
We are looking for a motivated Masterstudents with a strong interest to understand neuronal network information processing as well as learning-induced changes at the level of single cells and large neuronal ensembles.
A core function of the brain is to transform sensory information into useful behavior, while allowing for some degree of flexibility to adapt to an ever-changing environment. However, the precise mechanisms by which sensory representations are translated into actions, and the factors that enable this flexibility, remain poorly understood. In the broader project, we are interested in how two different sensory stimuli that ultimately lead to the same action are represented in the dorsal striatum (dStr), a brain region implicated in the learning of goal-directed actions and in action selection, and how these representations change during acquisition and reversal. In this student project, you will work on one specific subquestion in depth and gain hands-on experience in analysing neural data at the population level.
