n.2 PHD positions

Dal 18.02.2021 al 31.05.2021

Descrizione Azienda:
School of Health Sciences at the CITY University London

Descrizione Posizione Offerta:
2 PhD positions embedded in the European MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE Innovative
Training Network (ITN) OptiVisT ("Optimal support of Visually impaired
individuals through inclusive Tests and Tools for testing, training and
augmenting functional vision"), to work with Professor David Crabb in the
School of Health Sciences at the CITY University London on projects in
Translational Vision Science.

The projects focus on:
- Using Virtual and Augmented Reality-based tests of functional vision to
understand patients’ real-world difficulties;
- Examining eye-movements made during activities of daily living for
screening and rehabilitation of functional vision.

The candidate must be an exceptionally motivated and inventive scientist.
Training/qualification/expertise in experimental psychology or human based
performance or software engineering would be ideal. Equally a background in
vision science, ophthalmology, biology, physiology or related areas. Some
programming skills (e.g. Python, R, MatLab) would be desirable. The candidate
must have excellent English oral presentation and writing skills. Detailed
knowledge about vision or eyes are not required, but a desire to work very
hard on a person-based study or a motivation to code/build technology is
essential.

For details:
https://www.optivist.eu/project-9
https://www.optivist.eu/project-11

Applications should be submitted at the latest on 28th of February 2021 via
https://apply.workable.com/optivist-1/

Contatto per Candidature: fabio.scarpa@dei.unipd.it