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Academic Staff (PhD and postdoctoral positions)
Update January 2026: We will have 2 PhD positions in the field of computational neurology (deadline on 28.02.2026, earlier applications are encouraged). Please find the information here.
There is also a yearly call for DAAD-funded PhD scholarships for international applicants with via the International Graduate School of Neuroscience at Ruhr University Bochum (deadline on 31.01.2026!), which would give you an opportunity to work with us, see here for more details and application link on RUB PhD scholarships.
For postdocs, we currently offer a short-term fellowship of two weeks including travel, visa, and accommodation (deadline: 15.02.2026) via Research Explorer Ruhr. Please apply directly via the website - you can reach out for questions, but this is not required. The goal of the short-term fellowship is to get to know each other and to build a basis for an extended fellowship application.
In general, we are happy to host and supervise PhD and postdoctoral projects on computational neuroscience topics and can contribute a good computing and experimental infrastructure given an appropriate funding source of your own position, e.g., through a scholarship through the German Academic Exchange Service, German Research Foundation or mobility grants from your home country. If you are interested in applying for a scholarship, please send us a brief sketch of your research proposal.
Medical doctoral (MD) theses
We offer supervision of MD theses, providing medical students with unique computational or experimental (neurostimulation) skills. Our projects are usually either experimental (neurostimulation) or computational (modeling, data science). Our project often result in a publication with the student being a first author, but this also means that the time demands and expectations from you are higher than with a retrospective analysis. To successfully pursue a project, we require at least one "Freisemester" to focus on the doctoral thesis and you have to be a student at RUB. Please send us an unsolicited application if you are interested.
Students
We welcome students who are interested in experimental and theoretical analyses of pathological oscillations in neurodegeneration and their modulation with neurostimulation, as well as explorations of dynamical models and model fitting.
You may join us for:
- master's theses,
- doctoral theses,
- and internships.
Due to the group's interdisciplinary orientation, we are open to students from different fields:
- Medicine,
- Computer Science,
- Physics,
- Mathematics,
- Neuroscience,
- and related fields (such as Data Science).
We currently offer thesis supervision of students located at Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund (Data Science), and University of Bonn. Students from other universities should gather information about the formalities of executing their thesis at another university/faculty. For internships or student projects, we are open for students from all universities.
Currently available bachelor/ master theses and internships
Currently available topics are listed on my institutional website of Ruhr University Bochum. If you are interested, you can apply via e-mail (mail -ατ- computationalneurology.com) with your CV, why you selected a specific project from available topics, a short statement of motivation which should outline how your experience enables you to pursue the project, and your availability (preferred starting date/duration/hours per week available for projects).