- Degree
- PhD in Neuroscience
- Course location
- Bochum
- Teaching language
- • English
- Languages
- Courses are held in English.
- Full-time / part-time
- • full-time
- Programme duration
- 6 semesters
- Beginning
- Winter semester
- Application deadline
- End of January
- Tuition fees per semester in EUR
- Varied
- Additional information on tuition fees
- In principle, there are no tuition fees at RUB. However, there are a few exceptions. Therefore, please inform yourself in advance about any additional costs for the degree programme you are interested in.
- Combined Master's degree / PhD programme
- No
- Joint degree / double degree programme
- No
- Description/content
- Candidates will prepare a doctoral thesis in the field of neuroscience (project duration: four years). Research topics are olfaction, vision and acting, robotics, learning and memory, cortical and synaptic plasticity, neuron-glia interaction, signal transduction, cerebral asymmetries, clinical neuropsychology, neurodegenerative diseases, computational neuroscience and developmental neuroscience. For details on current research projects, see: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/igsn).
The study programme includes a semester-wide neuroscience lecture "From Molecules to Cognition", oral and written thesis proposals, progress reports and a final report, semester-wide lecture series with external speakers, annual workshops and special symposia, a course in grant writing and technical training.