"A funded PhD Student position will be available in the “Brain and Imaging” Inserm unit (national institute for health) settled in Tours, France, from October 1st, 2014 to September 30th, 2017. During this time period, the candidate will have: (1) to develop tools and pertinent criteria for comparison of MR-based tractography results to data obtained from dissection; (2) to compare different algorithms used for MR-based tractography; (3) to develop a tool aiming to help decision making for the choice of optimal algorithms and parameters used for tractography. This work will be co-directed by Pr C Destrieux (Anatomist) and Pr G Venturini (Computer Science) in the university of Tours. It will be funded for the whole time period by a grant we obtained from the Ministry of Research (about 1400 € per month). Potential candidates have to send a letter and a CV to christophe.destrieux(a)univ-tours.fr <mailto:christophe.destrieux@univ-tours.fr> and gilles.venturini(a)univ-tours.fr <mailto:gilles.venturini@univ-tours.fr> before the 15th of April. After an internal selection of the applications, they will have to defend their candidateship during an interview organized by the Doctoral School of the university at the end of May 2014."