2020 PhD scholarship winners

Following the two calls for applications launched at the beginning of 2020, NeuroSchool’s PhD program has awarded:

• Three 3-year PhD scholarships to high-level students who have obtained a master’s degree in a foreign university.
• Two PhD scholarships for international co-supervised PhD fellowships between AMU and a foreign university.

In response to these calls, the PhD program received 48 eligible applications from students who applied for one of the 16 projects (9 international and 7 co-tutoring) submitted by all Marseille laboratories. Eleven candidates were pre-selected on the basis of their applications and according to the ranking made by the project leaders.

Auditions were held on Friday, June 5 before a jury including a representative from each NeuroMarseille laboratory. The following results were obtained unanimously.

Results for the PhD scholarships for international students

• Gaelle Al Haddad will do her PhD at the LNC under the supervision of Marieke Longcamp, on the following topic: French-Arabic bigraphism: behavioural and neuroimaging studies of the interactions between two languages in the motor system.
• Maya Williams will do her PhD at INT under the supervision of Christelle Baunez, on the following topic: Study of the network involving the subthalamic nucleus in various aspects of addiction in the rat.
• Surbhi will carry out her PhD at the IBDM under the supervision of Christophe Beclin, on the following subject: Fine-tuning of synapse plasticity: role of micro-RNAs.

Results for the international co-supervised PhD fellowships

• Guillaume Frebourg was awarded 18 months of funding for the co-supervised project led by Virginie Callot (CRMBM, AMU) and Yvan Petit (ETS, Montreal): Multi-modal analysis of the relationships between mechanical, structural, connectivity and functional alterations of the spinal cord in cervical spondylotic myelopathy and central canal syndrome.
• Coleen Roger has been awarded 12 months of funding for the co-supervised project led by Jean-Philippe Ranjeva (CRMBM, AMU) and Yu Fu (A*STAR, Singapore): Neural regulation of feeding. A translational approach from mouse to human.

Congratulations to all the winners!