PHD POSITION

PhD Studentship: Improving Artificial Intelligence through Neuroscience

Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

Institution: University of Exeter
Country: United Kingdom
Field: Life sciences and medicine
Type: PhD position
Pay: £21,805 The studentship will provide funding of fees and a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.
Deadline: 8 Dec 2026 · 26 days left

About this position

Neuroscience has been a major source of inspiration for modern Artificial Intelligence frameworks, such as Deep Networks, Reinforcement Learning, and Large Language Models. This project investigates how two more recent Neuroscience developments could help improve Deep Networks. The first development is the realisation in the last 20 years that a population of brain cells, astrocytes, have complex and coordinated responses to neural activity, and feed back onto neural activity. What is the effect of these neuron-astrocyte interactions on brain computations? You will explore the hypothesis that

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Applications close on 8 Dec 2026 (26 days from today). Apply on the official page; PhD Atlas does not collect applications.

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Official call: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTL061/phd-studentship-improving-artificial-intelligence-through-neuroscience

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