The appointment will be full time on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £34,056 - £41,163 per annum , inclusive of London Allowance.
ERC project, 1.5M euros over 5 years: "Building Next-Generation Computational Tools for High Resolution Neuroimaging Studies". The project proposes to build a set of next-generation computational tools that will enable neuroimaging studies to take full advantage of the increased resolution of modern MR technology. The core of the tools will be an ultra-high resolution probabilistic atlas of the human brain, built upon multimodal data combining from histology and ex vivo MRI. The resulting atlas will be used to analyse in vivo brain MR scans, which will require the development of Bayesian segmentation methods beyond the state of the art.
We are seeking a post-doctoral research associate (PDRA) to develop automated or semi-automated methods for the reconstruction of the histological data, by taking advantage of heterogeneous sources of information (e.g. existing lower-resolution probabilistic atlases, manual segmentation, MRI scans). These techniques will be used to recover the 3D structure of histology samples from 10 different cases provided by the UCL Brain Bank. The resulting reconstructed data will be use to build computational atlases in later stages of the ERC project.
This project provides an exciting opportunity for a PDRA at the interface between histology, neuroscience, biomedical imaging, computer vision and statistics, with a huge potential imaging in the neuroimaging field. The PDRA will be expected to develop novel techniques, and produce implementations that will be made publicly available to the research community.
The project title for this post is Reconstruction of histology applied to ultra-high resolution human brain atlasing.
This post is funded for 24 months in the first instance.
Candidates must have a upper second honours degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable subject. Also candidates should have a PhD or equivalent research experience in biomedical image analysis which is essential for this post.
For further details about the vacancy and how to apply online please go to
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ and search on Reference Number:1637024
If you have any queries about the post please contact Dr Juan Eugenio Iglesias
[email protected] or alternately if you have any queries about your application please contact Neha Shah:
[email protected] Closing Date: 22 April 2017
Latest time for the submission of applications: 23.59.
Interview Date: TBC
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