Research and Thesis Projects
We want to spark the interest of bachelor and master students in understanding the brain, and particularly the neural control of movement. Major principles of systems neuroscience and motor control can be experienced every day, thereby providing rich practical examples of the theories we teach in lectures and seminars. Students are always welcome to join us in the lab either as a participant, a volunteer, during a summer job, an internship, or for a master thesis.
Feel free to contact us when you are interested in one of the projects listed below or if you are generally curious about our research and would like to know more.
ETH Zürich is using SiROP to publish and search scientific projects. For more information please visit external page sirop.org.
Internship or Master Thesis Opportunity in Pupil-Based Biofeedback data analysis
Are you passionate about neuroinformatics, data science, or biosignal processing and looking for an exciting internship/master thesis opportunity at ETH Zurich and SFISM? Join our interdisciplinary team in an SNF BRIDGE project that explores how pupil-based biofeedback training can help athletes to regulate their state of arousal.
Arousal regulation is critical for cognitive performance and well-being. Our research focuses on using the pupil as a real-time physiological marker of central arousal, linked to the locus coeruleus-noradrenaline (LC-NA) system. We have developed an innovative pupil-based biofeedback system integrated into commercially available VR headsets with eye-tracking capabilities.
Our goal is to investigate how prolonged pupil biofeedback training influences self-regulation of arousal at rest and during cognitive tasks, and how factors such as demographics and personality traits shape its effectiveness.
The project will be jointly supervised by the Neural Control of Movement lab at ETH Zurich and the Sports Psychology group at SFISM. A substantial part of the research activities will take place in Magglingen.
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