PhD and postdoc opportunities - March 2023

PhD position on patient-specific cardiac biomechanics
Cardiovascular mathematics team at Groningen University
Funded by Health Technology Research & Innovation Cluster (HTRIC)

Scientific interests: Personalization of cardiac biomechanics from exercise MRI data

Required background:

• M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering or Applied Physics
• Or M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics with strong interest in applied research
• Good knowledge in computational solid mechanics, which includes basics of numerical mathematics
• High motivation to work with medical images and tackle cardiovascular clinical challenges

Send your CV to Cristóbal Bertoglio c.a.bertoglio@rug.nl by the 16th of April

More info HERE

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Sheffield Children’s Hospital, the NIHR Children and Young People MedTech Cooperative and the Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine at the University of Sheffield are recruiting up to 4 PhD studentships in Paediatric Digital Healthcare Technology.

• The Sheffield Children’s Hospital/Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine PhD Programme in Digital Health: Digital Healthcare at Home
• The Sheffield Children’s Hospital/Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine PhD Programme in Digital Health: Digital Wards
• The Sheffield Children’s Hospital/Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine PhD Programme in Digital Health: Advanced Healthcare Communication
• The Sheffield Children’s Hospital/Insigneo Institute for In Silico Medicine PhD Programme in Digital Health: Digital Twins

University of Sheffield - Department of Infection, Immunity and Cardiovascular Disease

Supervisors: Professor Jim Wild (representing a team of potential supervisors from Insigneo) and Professor Paul Dimitri (representing a team of potential supervisors from SCH)

Successful applicants will work together in a pioneering cross-disciplinary programme alongside patients, families, clinicians, engineers, computer scientists and other experts to develop new digital platforms and technologies that can address unmet needs in child health. This research will focus on paediatric clinical care pathways and span the Insigneo research themes of Healthcare Data, Artificial Intelligence and Smart Devices and Sensors. It will develop the concepts of Digital Twins, Digital Wards, Digital Healthcare at Home and Advanced Healthcare Communication in paediatric real life healthcare settings with Sheffield Children’s Hospital and in collaboration with Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Closing date: 14 April 2023

More info and application: go to website

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PhD Physical Modeling & Simulation

Full time job at Twinical

Twinical is a start-up providing a surgical planning and navigation tool to treat liver cancer patients. We are developing the digital twin of the patient's liver to help the surgeon plan operations virtually and improve his surgical precision by guiding him during the operation. Developed in collaboration with the APHP and more particularly the BOPA innovation chair (www.chaire-bopa.fr) and the Mimesis team from Inria Strasbourg (https://mimesis.inria.fr), our solution reduces the duration of the surgery, improves the postoperative course and reduces the recurrence rate by improving the quality of the resection of tumors not visible with conventional surgical exploration methods.

Integrated within the R&D team, you will work on the main functionality of the company which is the Digital Twin of the organ. You will be in charge of implementing new algorithms in the SOFA framework, to improve this Digital Twin in terms of physical realism while keeping the simulation real time.

More info and application: http://twinical.com/files/Twinical_PhD-Physical-Simulation_JobOffer

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PhD Computer Vision & IA

Full time job at Twinical

Integrated within the R&D team, you will work on computer vision algorithms to be able to process and label the images of the operating room in real time. You will study several image processing algorithms using deep learning to address technical challenges. You will collaborate with researchers, engineers and clinicians on this ambitious project. In more detail, your mission will consist of:

• Implement computer vision algorithms to segment anatomical structures in surgical images.
• Prototype sensor modalities or imaging techniques to improve current results.
• Optimize calculation codes to enable real-time processing of the video stream.
• Test and validate image labelling on clinical study.
• Maintain code quality and integrity.
• Actively participate in software compliance with regulatory constraints.

More info and application: http://twinical.com/files/Twinical_PhD-Computer-Vision_JobOffer.pdf

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER (C++/C#)

Full time job at Twinical

Integrated within the R&D team, you will be responsible for the design, development and maintenance of our software for surgeons as well as internal software. In this role, you will work hand in hand with the other R&D engineers to integrate their work into the complete solution. In more detail, your mission will consist of:

• Define and implement software architectures that meet our constraints and needs.
• Design and implement user interfaces.
• Participate in the design and implementation of new features.
• Ensure the compatibility of different software with each other.
• Maintain code quality and integrity.
• Actively participate in software compliance with regulatory constraints

More info and application: http://twinical.com/files/Twinical_Software-Engineer_JobOffer.pdf