<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 14pt 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">PhD Studentships in be.AI - </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">University of Sussex’s Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme in Biomimetic Embodied AI</span><span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> </span></span></b></p><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 14pt 0mm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The University of Sussex invites applications for PhD studentships within the</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">be.AI Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">(</span></span><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: blue;" class="">www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">which will bring together researchers from the humanities, life sciences and computing to pursue artificial intelligence (AI) in its original definition of understanding natural intelligence by emulating it in artificial systems. In our unique interdisciplinary centre, we will </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">advance understanding of how the interaction between brain, body and environment gives rise to intelligence and how this insight can be used to build </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">novel</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> artificial intelligence. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></p><div class=""><font size="3" class="">Projects on vision science are available, with supervisors including <a href="https://badenlab.org" class="">Professor Tom Baden</a> (with <a href="https://jennybosten.wixsite.com/visionlab" class="">Dr. Jenny Bosten</a>), <a href="http://www.warrickroseboom.com" class="">Dr. Warrick Roseboom</a> <a href="https://ilovevisiondata.wixsite.com/viktoriia" class="">Dr. Viktoriia Sharmanska</a>, <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p9815-chris-chatwin" class="">Professor Chris Chatwin</a>, <a href="http://users.sussex.ac.uk/tafj0/" class="">Dr. Phil Birch</a> and <a href="https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p280331-jeremy-niven" class="">Professor Jeremy Niven</a>. For further details of supervisors and projects available see <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai" class=""><span style="color: blue;" class="">http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai</span></a> </font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin: 0mm 0mm 8pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; border: none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">As a be.AI Scholar you will:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></p><ul style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 0mm;" class=""><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Be funded for 3.5 years with a tax free living allowance at the standard Research Council rate – currently £15,009 per year– and UK fees</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Be eligible for generous financial support of up to £4,000 per year for training and research expenses, such as conference trips and experimental costs </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Be eligible to apply for one of three 12 month postdoctoral research fellowships, available </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><i class="">only </i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">to completing Leverhulme be.AI scholars</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Benefit from supervision by world-leading researchers in many different aspects of AI</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></li><li class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Benefit from taught courses in topics, such as ethics and data science.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">The Programme will fund three intakes of 6 students per year, starting in September 2021 (application deadline 31st January 2021). You will be registered within one of the participating schools (Life Sciences, Engineering and Informatics, Psychology, Philosophy, Media Film & Music) but will be encouraged to perform cross-disciplinary research with academics across Schools. In be.AI, you will work in a community of like-minded students and researchers supported by your own research seminars, invited lectures by world leading speakers, as well as student-led conferences and cohort building events. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span><br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">We are passionate about creating an interdisciplinary cohort of researchers, so we expect successful applicants to see beyond their disciplinary boundaries and embrace the opportunity to work at the intersection of multiple fields.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></b><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">For further details, including how to apply, see </span><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: blue;" class="">http://www.sussex.ac.uk/ccnr/be_ai</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""> </span></span></div></body></html>