[Switzerland] Two PhD [Switzerland] Two PhD positions in Biologically Inspired Robotics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technologypositions in Biologically Inspired Robotics at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Two funded PhD student positions in the Biologically Inspired Robotics Group
The Biologically Inspired Robotics Group (BIRG, http://birg.epfl.ch/) in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL has two open funded PhD student (research assistant) positions as part of a new European project to be started on the 1st of February 2008.
Background The two positions are part of a new European project called Lampetra that aims at building lamprey-like and salamander-like robots to test hypotheses concerning vertebrate locomotion control.
The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Scuola Superiore Sant`Anna (Pisa, Italy), Karolinksa Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), Royal Institute of Technology (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden), Centre de recherche INSERM U862 (Bordeaux, France), and EPFL (Lausanne Switzerland).
