15 PhD positions in Re-learning Perception Action In Rehabilitation

REPAIRS is a European Training Network (ETN) within the H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network programme, funded by the European Union. As of 1st September 2021 the network will employ 15 Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) for high quality PhD training. These PhDs will be employed in a network covering a broad range of disciplines, ranging from human movement science, rehabilitation, engineering, neural (mathematical) modelling to philosophy. This network provides innovative training-through-research preparing the PhD students to become the next generation of creative, innovative and leading academic and entrepreneurial researchers.

The objective of REPAIRS is to improve rehabilitation training by combining insights from fundamental research on how individuals re-learn perception and action with cutting-edge rehabilitation practice. In the different projects, experimental and modelling studies will be performed at the behavioral and at the neural level applying technological innovations and using novel data analysis techniques. Observational studies will also be performed. The training takes place through supervision of experts in the field, close interactions with other PhD students in the project, collaborative training projects, local and network wide journal clubs, network wide training events and secondments in academic, clinical and industry settings. The training focusses on research and academic skills but also on transferrable skills, teamwork skills, leadership and entrepreneurial skills (see below for more details). The goal of the training is to provide PhDs with the skills that enable them to push the field of re-learning perception and action and the field of rehabilitation to the next level.

The partners hosting PhD students are: University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands), Aix-Marseille University (France), RUHR Universität Bochum (Germany), University of Antwerp (Belgium), COREHAB (Italy), MEDIAN Unternehmensgruppe B.V. & Co. KG (Germany), Faculty of Human Kinetics (Portugal) and Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain).