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PhD Studentship: Causal AI and EEG Analysis to Characterise Sleep in Children with Neurodevelopmental Conditions

Edinburgh💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-10 → 2026-07-31

Core

Develop algorithms to extract meaningful information from paediatric EEG recordings and apply causal AI to separate genuine sleep-related causes and effects from confounding factors for children with neurodevelopmental conditions.

Role type

PhD researcher in causal AI and EEG signal processing

Builds

Computational analysis tools for paediatric EEG and causal inference models

Domain

Paediatric neuroscience, clinical AI, signal processing

Deliverable

research

Required skills

signal processing, deep learning, artificial intelligence (AI), algorithm development, causal inference

Preferred skills

experience processing brain activity

Technologies

EEG recordings, deep learning frameworks

Responsibilities

Develop algorithms to extract features capturing sleep organisation, variability, and atypical patterns from paediatric EEG; examine causal relationships between sleep and neurodevelopmental conditions; ensure algorithms are interpretable, robust, and fair.

Seniority

PhD candidate

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