We offer a variety of programs to students eager to take part in a new and ambitious multi-disciplinary research environment.
Here is a spotlight on four PhD students from various disciplines and backgrounds:
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Carmel Auerbach-Asch: My name is Carmel, I joined ELSC in 2014 after a bachelor's degree in physics and philosophy, I am a mother of 2. When I am not running experiments, analyzing data or reading literature, I mainly travel, hike and play with my family! My research topic is: "Looking without Seeing” – I study visual perception using co-registration of EEG and Eye-tracking systems to identify neural correlates of aware vs. unaware processing, and examine the interaction between gaze control, spatial attention and visual awareness, under Free viewing conditions. |
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Alex Kazakov: I hold a B.Sc. in Computational Biology (Bioinformatics) from the Hebrew University with a specialization in computer vision and computational neuroscience. Currently I am doing my Ph.D. in the lab of Prof. Israel Nelken. The title of the current project is “Predicting rat's behavior and neuronal activity from its in-silico model”. In this work, I am interested in the correlation between the artificial intelligence and the biological one, with the goal of unveiling the similarities and the differences between the two. |
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Arthur Berrou: I started an MD-PhD training program in France in 2015 and joined ELSC in 2017 to complete a PhD in computational neuroscience. I enjoy Jerusalem and its stones, its light, its voices and its music, from Gregorian chants to Hasidic techno. I study network mechanisms of frequency selectivity in the primary auditory cortex of rodents, under the supervision of Prof. Israel Nelken and David Hansel, using both numerical and analytical tools. Specifically, I compare experimental data from Nelken's lab with simulations run on a large-scale spiking neural network comprising various populations of excitatory and inhibitory neurons |
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I-An Tan: I’m a PhD student at ELSC at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky’s Neurolinguistics Lab. I have long been fascinated by the intricacies and richness of natural languages. After graduating from National Taiwan University in Engineering and Finance, I proceeded to earn an MA degree in formal linguistics from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. My current work focuses on how the human brain processes negation and negative expressions - an area of perennial interest in philosophy, linguistics, logic and cognitive neuroscience. I am also involved in a computational project, which aims to help stroke victims, by developing a self-operated language testing and rehabilitation device. In my free time, I enjoy swimming and playing the Chinese zither. |
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