PhD student - research on Time-Of-Flight PET/MRI

Description

* You have a Masters of Science degree, preferably in Biomedical Engineering, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Electromechanical Engineering, or equivalent. 
* You have a large interest in medical imaging
* You are a collaborative dynamic person who likes to work in a multidisciplinary research environment.
* You have good communication skills (written and oral) in English 
* You are willing to travel abroad for meetings and conferences 
* Experience in simulations and reconstruction for PET or SPECT is an asset. 
* The group offers a 1-yr contract which will be extended to a full PhD period after successful completion of the 1st year.

Nr of positions available : 1

Research Fields

Engineering - Other

Career Stage

Early stage researcher or 0-4 yrs (Post graduate) 

Research Profiles

First Stage Researcher (R1) 

Benefits

MEDISIP (MEDical Image and SIgnal Processing) is an iMinds research group, part of the faculty of engineering of Ghent University. The team consists of 25 researchers, active in the field of medical imaging science and multimodality imaging. MEDISIP is located at the University Hospital (UZ Ghent) and has ongoing collaborations with hospitals, research groups and industry all over the world. During the last years significant part of the research work has focused on system design, reconstruction and attenuation correction of PET-MRI.
You will become member of an international research group (English)
You are entitled to following most important social benefits:
* commute retribution
* 20+12 vacation days
* additional hospital & group insurance

Comment/web site for additional job details

Applicants should send their application (motivation letter + CV + 2 references to professor Stefaan.Vandenberghe@ugent.be). 
Candidates with an interesting profile will be contacted for an interview (skype for international candidates). The position will be filled as soon as possible.

Vacancy also @: http://www.iminds.be/en/about-us/jobs

Application Deadline

28/11/2014

Application e-mail

Stefaan.Vandenberghe@ugen