Research Associate in Positron Emitting Particle Tracking Simulation
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- £38,304 to £45,026 per annum
- Closing date
- 12 Jan 2020
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- Academic Discipline
- Physical Sciences, Life sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
We are seeking a research associate to help develop and validate a continuum model of positron emitting particle tracking (PEPT) measurements.
In PEPT a finite amount of radiolabelled blood cells are injected into the blood stream. As these particles move around the body the position of the blood cells can be traced with the radioactive decay. If the amount of blood cells is very small, this can be done with a very precise spatial and temporal resolution contrary to standard blood flow imaging techniques. One of the main challenges is to identify the amount of radiation and particles needed.
You will be working in a leading research environment as part of the ESPRC project "Probing Multiscale Complex Multiphase Flows with Positrons for Engineering and Biomedical Applications". Your role involves close collaboration with biophysical modellers, software developers, engineers and clinicians.
Your role will involve 1) the setup and validation of a motion driven CFD model for PEPT measurements 2) calibration and estimation of design variables for the PEPT scanners and 3) contribution to development of the PEPT methodology. These tasks will be achieved by using and enhancing existing software at KCL developed in C++ and Python.
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King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
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King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Telephone
- +(44)02078365454
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