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 world-class 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 ResearchInstitute of AnatomyClinic of NeurologyCarl Ludwig Institute for PhysiologyClinic for PsychiatryRudolf Boehm Institute for Pharmacology and ToxicologyDepartment of Neurosurgery

 Faculty of Bioscience, Pharmacy, and Psychology:Institute for BiologyInstitute of Psychology I Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences:Institute for Experimental Physics I Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain SciencesMax 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