The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The salary range will be £35,965 to £43,470 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.
The successful candidate will join a very active inter-disciplinary group in the Centre for Computational Science and will perform modelling and simulation of the cardiovascular system at the whole human scale.
The post-holder will work on scientific applications of HemeLB, a flexible open source lattice-Boltzmann code for the simulation of human vasculature, and the Alya Red code for human heart modelling, at the scale of the entire human body. The coupled code, running on powerful supercomputers, will be used by the post-holder for research in physiology and medicine within the Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (
https://www.compbiomed.eu/). In addition to the development and application of the code, including verification, validation and uncertainty quantification, the post-holder will facilitate uptake of these software within the wider computational biomedicine community.
The post is funded by the European Commission and is available immediately, for a period of 24 months initially.
A Ph.D. degree in physics, computer science, computer engineering, applied mathematics or chemistry, with experience in either the lattice-Boltzmann method or cardiac modelling, is an essential requirement. Experience in large-scale high-performance computing is also essential, alongside a proven ability to programme quickly and effectively in state-of-the-art high-performance computing environments; familiarity with GPU programming in such contexts is desirable. Some experience in developing and exploiting state-of-the-art methods in any one or more of multiscale/multiphysics methods, medical imaging, visualisation and computational steering would be advantageous.
Please note, appointment at Grade 7 (salary £35,965 to £43,470 per annum) is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, appointment will be at Research Assistant Grade 6B (salary £31,479 to £33,194 per annum).
For further details about the vacancy and how to apply online please go to
https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5041178&ownertype=fair&jcode=1870580Informal enquiries should be addressed to Prof Peter Coveney (
[email protected]). Any queries on the application process can be directed to Judith James (
[email protected])
Closing Date: 10 September 2020 at 23.59.
Interview Date: To be confirmed
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