Overview

Students receive their training through comprehensive coursework within the LN Program and by attending seminars, journal clubs and workshops. They are also encouraged, and often sponsored, to present their research at national and international neuroscience conferences.

Goals and Objectives

The Lemanic Neuroscience Doctoral School (LNDS) aims at providing students with broad background knowledge in neuroscience, irrespective of their thesis topic. That is, it offers courses and training events ranging from cellular and molecular to cognitive, clinical and computational neurosciences.

After completing the Neuroscience program at the University of Lausanne, the PhD candidate will have demonstrated that he/she is able to:

independently plan and execute an original research project.

use and apply the acquired knowledge and technologies to design a novel scientific study in order to answer preclinical or clinical questions.

effectively communicate, written and orally, about his/her research with the scientific community and the general public.

integrate his/her research topic with other domains of neuroscience, make connections between the fundamental and cognitive/clinical neurosciences, and acknowledge the benefit of transdisciplinary interactions for scientific advancement and innovation.

critically discuss their own as well as others’ research.

act and react promptly in scientific discussions and contribute to resolving problems in scientific projects.

efficiently organize his/her own as well as group-wide projects, and recognize a possible necessity of additional resources.

engage into scientific discussions in English.

write and successfully defend a doctoral thesis.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Diffusion MR Imaging: from physics to brain networks

Processing Face and Voice Identity

Biophotonics

Molecular Biology

Beyond the Receptive Field: Neuroscientific and computational approaches

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months

Start dates & application deadlines

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Language

English, French

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Neuroscience View 6 other PhDs in Neuroscience in Switzerland

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

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Other requirements

General requirements

Candidates wishing to obtain a doctorate must be judged formally eligible for the doctoral programme by the Admissions Service.

They must have a Master issued by a Swiss university or HES or a Master deemed equivalent by the Rectorate to a Swiss university or HES Master.

Tuition Fee

Living costs for Lausanne

1609 - 1979 CHF /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.