If our research profile evoked your interest of working with us on the spatial memory of honeybees, then you are warmly welcommed to contact us.
What we offer
We offer the infrastructure of conducting cutting-edge research in honeybees. Würzburg has a long tradition of bee research and has its own bee station in close neighbourhood to our department. A beekeeper employed by the department provides us with hives and everything we need for observing bees. The university also has its own workshop which can build high quality and customized setups, e.g., flight simulators, flight tunnels, observation hives. As you can see from the research page, we offer conducting intracellular recordings (with sharp glass electrodes) from the bee brain, extracellular tetrode-recordings from behaving bees, and also building a virtual reality setup that allows tethered flying honeybees to orient in a 3-D model of her foraging site.
What you need
In case of a PhD project, the candidate shoud hold a Masters degree or equivalent in Natural Science, e.g. Neuroscience, or related fields. A background in programming (Matlab, Python etc...) and/or electrophysiology are of advantage but not required. Most importantly, the candidate should share with us the fascination for animal behavior and finding its underlying neural principles.
To be eligible for the Postdoc position, you must hold a PhD degree in Natural Science or related fields. Experience with in vivo electrophysiology, e.g., tetrode recordings, whether in vertebrates or invertebrates are required. In addition, experience in programming (Matlab, DeepLabCut, Unity) is required. You must demonstrate the ability of writing manuscripts, evidenced by a record of peer-reviewed publications.
Altogether the candidates should have fun exploring new things, finding creative solutions to problems we cannot predict at the moment and most importantly having fun working in our team.
What we offer
We offer the infrastructure of conducting cutting-edge research in honeybees. Würzburg has a long tradition of bee research and has its own bee station in close neighbourhood to our department. A beekeeper employed by the department provides us with hives and everything we need for observing bees. The university also has its own workshop which can build high quality and customized setups, e.g., flight simulators, flight tunnels, observation hives. As you can see from the research page, we offer conducting intracellular recordings (with sharp glass electrodes) from the bee brain, extracellular tetrode-recordings from behaving bees, and also building a virtual reality setup that allows tethered flying honeybees to orient in a 3-D model of her foraging site.
What you need
In case of a PhD project, the candidate shoud hold a Masters degree or equivalent in Natural Science, e.g. Neuroscience, or related fields. A background in programming (Matlab, Python etc...) and/or electrophysiology are of advantage but not required. Most importantly, the candidate should share with us the fascination for animal behavior and finding its underlying neural principles.
To be eligible for the Postdoc position, you must hold a PhD degree in Natural Science or related fields. Experience with in vivo electrophysiology, e.g., tetrode recordings, whether in vertebrates or invertebrates are required. In addition, experience in programming (Matlab, DeepLabCut, Unity) is required. You must demonstrate the ability of writing manuscripts, evidenced by a record of peer-reviewed publications.
Altogether the candidates should have fun exploring new things, finding creative solutions to problems we cannot predict at the moment and most importantly having fun working in our team.