PhD Studentship/Doctoral Fellowship at Ghent University in Ultrasound Neuromodulation and Epilepsy – Call for Applications 2025

About Ghent University 

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With its 11 schools and greater than 85 departments providing state-of-the-artwork study programmes grounded in analysis in a variety of educational fields, Ghent University is a logical selection for its workers and college students.

Job Description

As part of the extremely prestigious ERC Starting Grant URENIMOD (Ultrasound for Remote Neuroimaging and Modulation), a Ph.D. place is out there at Ghent University from September 2025. The mission goals to develop a minimally to non-invasive therapy for focal epilepsy with ultrasound neurorecording, modulation, and deep reinforcement studying closed-loop management. The know-how, developed by detailed laptop simulations, might be validated with preclinical experiments. The candidate might be part of a multidisciplinary crew working in direction of this goal at the 4Brain (www.4brain.be) and WAVES (www.waves.intec.ugent.be) analysis teams. The objective of the analysis is to work in direction of a doctoral diploma.

Job Profile

We are trying for enthusiastic PhD/Doctoral candidates to carry out analysis on a closed-loop and non-invasive ultrasound neuromodulation therapy of focal epilepsy. The candidate will carry out fiber photometry imaging and centered ultrasound insonication experiments in epileptic mice, to discover the potential for cell-kind selective neuromodulation. The non-invasive neurorecording method, realized by acousto-electrical heterodyning, might be validated with depth and EEG electrode measurements. Finally, the closed-loop ultrasound know-how might be examined in the intrahippocampal kainic acid mouse mannequin in this Ph.D. mission.

• You maintain a Master’s diploma (ideally) in biomedical sciences or in a associated area.
• The candidate has expertise with rodent fashions, information of neuroscience and is fluent in English (speech and writing).

What We Can Offer You

• We provide a full-time place as a doctoral fellow, consisting of an preliminary interval of 12 months, which – after a optimistic analysis, might be prolonged to a complete most of 48 months.
• Your contract will begin on 09/01/2026 at the earliest.
• The fellowship quantity is 100% of the online wage of an AAP member in equal household circumstances. The particular person fellowship quantity is decided by Team Personnel Administration primarily based on household standing and seniority. A grant that meets the situations and standards of the rules for doctoral fellowships is taken into account free of private revenue tax. Click here for more information about our salary scales
• All Ghent University workers members take pleasure in an a variety of benefits, corresponding to a variety of coaching and training alternatives, 36 days of vacation go away (on an annual foundation for a full-time job) supplemented by annual mounted bridge days, bicycle allowance and eco vouchers. Click here for a complete overview of all the staff benefits.

Application Deadline

How to apply

If you have an interest in this PhD/Doctoral Fellowship provide, you possibly can handle your application letter, curriculum vitae, and diploma certificates to thomas.tarnaud@ugent.be.

Contact

For extra details about this emptiness, please contact Prof. Thomas Tarnaud (thomas.tarnaud@ugent.be).