1. Bi-nationales Promotionsprogramm Leipzig-Newcastle „From Signal Processing to Behaviour“ (SiPB) Kai Alter

2. General information What? Benefits for our PhD students How to apply

3. What is this program about? to establish a cooperative doctorate program between the Universities and to foster academic research and scholarly cooperation by supporting the mobility of doctoral candidates considerable funding from the DAAD to establish a joint world- class Doctoral Exchange Program to train the next generation of scientists offering PhD students a wealth of opportunities to work with research leaders across a wide range of biological, medical, and neuroscience subjects inside SiPB

4. Why Leipzig? Faculty of Medicine: Paul Flechsig Institute for Brain Research Institute of Anatomy Clinic of Neurology Carl Ludwig Institute for Physiology Clinic for Psychiatry Rudolf Boehm Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Neurosurgery Faculty of Bioscience, Pharmacy, and Psychology: Institute for Biology Institute of Psychology I Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences: Institute for Experimental Physics I Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences

5. Benefits for our PhD students To learn a new technique To add more data employing an existing technique To get a different view on data acquisition and interpretation To learn how to publish To enter a new network for future work To have demonstrated survival capacities in a different culture This will certainly add another feather on their heads

6. Benefits for our PhD students Co-supervision with Leipzig experts Access to labs and techniques for free No language barrier All PhD programs are taught in English International Post-Graduate School Help with accommodation, administration etc.

7. How to apply Identify a potential co-supervisor Contact Kai and/or our coordinator Dr Nicole Richter Contact co-supervisor Arrange date of visit

8. Where are we so far…. One student from Leipzig in Newcastle Three more Newcastle students expressed interest Workshop in December 2011 in Leipzig (12 IoN members) Chris Petkov and students visiting Leipzig in March 2012