The candidate will be able to:

• demonstrate knowledge of the research fields in neuroscience including its subareas; Molecular, Cellular, Systems Neuroscience, Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience.
• have knowledge about relevant methodologies and techniques in neuroscience including classical as well as more recent techniques.
• have in-depth insight of basic brain structure and function at the ionic and molecular level.
• demonstrate knowledge of sensory systems and motor systems.
• understand monosynaptic and complex reflex networks at spinal cord and brainstem levels.
• have knowledge about association cortices, both definitions and different levels such as prefrontal, parietal and temporal cortex.
• understand how molecular, biochemical, cellular and physiological aspects mutually contribute to neural systems, and can be affected in pathological conditions.
• demonstrate knowledge of current theoretical concepts in Neuroscience, and be able to apply this to his/her own research
• basic computer programming for analysis of neuroscience data, recognize different data types and their uses, coding basics and debugging, and data visualization.
• have knowledge about relevant historical perspectives in neuroscience, its traditions and the position in the society.

The candidate will be able to:

• analyse existing theories and main outstanding issues in the field of neurosciences.
• find relevant methods, recognize and validate problems; formulate and test hypotheses.
• evaluate and formulate a theoretical concept. Evaluation includes originality, independence and applicability.
• perform a research project with supervision including the formulation of a research question, analyse experimental results, put them in a context and make a report.
• search relevant sources of information to acquire literacy in basic neuroscience.
• perform basic programmatic analysis of neural data & code debugging.
• formulate a research question based on adequate insight into current knowledge.

The candidate will develop:

• competence on how to analyse relevant general issues in neuroscience including field specific theorems and ethical issue.
• competence on how to decide on animal and human research, general insight in ways to diminish research that causes suffering to humans and animals.
• competence on how to carry out research independently and knows how to formulate and express results and interpretations of the research outcomes.
• capabilities to carry out and analyse complex experiments in neuroscience.
• capability to applying basic programming to analyse and visualize results of neuroscience experiments.
• competence to summarize, document, report, and reflect on own findings.
• competence to contribute to the generation of new ideas, concepts and technical approaches to experimental research questions.