PhD Studentship in Vision Science

UK

By combining academic excellence with professional relevance, The City University London prepares 11,000 students for the world of work - 40 per cent at postgraduate level, and 50 per cent from outside the UK. A strong research culture enriches the learning experience and accounts for our growing influence on the markets we serve.

Applications are invited for three PhD studentships to work on both fundamental and applied aspects of colour vision. The aim of these studies is to understand the factors that limit our chromatic discrimination sensitivity, both in normal trichromats and in subjects with various forms of congenital colour deficiency.

The projects will refine current techniques for assessing chromatic sensitivity and modelling work to establish the relative importance of the various factors that limit human chromatic sensitivity over a range of ambient light levels. The overall aim is to use the results of key tests to derive accurate estimates of model parameters in order to predict the subject`s colour discrimination performance in different working environments.

You will have a first class or 2:1 undergraduate degree and preferably a masters degree in optometry & visual science, physics, experimental psychology, computing and / or applied mathematics. Enthusiasm for research and a keen interest in human visual perception and in particular colour vision are essential. Each project has a studentship of £15,000 per year. Projects are ready to start immediately.

For informal discussions, please contact:

John Barbur
(johnb@city.ac.uk) or David Thomson (W.D.Thomson@city.ac.uk).
Further information is available at:
http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc/vacancies/studentship.html

If you wish to apply, please download and fill in the postgraduate research application form, http://www.city.ac.uk/researchprospectus/, append a personal statement, and send these documents with your CV to:

Application Deadline: Sept 11th 2006

Catherine O`Brien,
Executive Officer,
Tel. 0207 040 8331,
email: Catherine.O-Brien.1@city.ac.uk
City University, Applied Vision Research Centre,
The Henry Wellcome Laboratories, for Vision Sciences,
Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB.
http://www.city.ac.uk/avrc