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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Control Systems and AI for Next Generation MRI Systems

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Salary
Grade 6, £38,304 to £45,026 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
Closing date
19 Nov 2020

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Academic Discipline
Biological Sciences, Life sciences
Job Type
Research Related, Research Associate
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

The post holder will join a multidisciplinary team working to develop novel technologies for low field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) with the overarching objective of reducing costs and improving access to this now essential imaging modality.

MRI usually requires high performance hardware that is engineered to meet strict requirements, such as highly uniform magnetic fields and perfectly linear field gradients that respond linearly through time. These systems typically use expensive hardware controlled by relatively simple systems; the high cost ultimately leads to high scan costs and restricted availability for patients.

This project seeks to change the paradigm for next generation MRI technology. The post holder will develop new control algorithms that are able to obtain similar results to existing MRI systems, but using cheaper and less ideal hardware that would yield poor imaging results using current methods. The post would suit candidates with interests in control systems design, potentially employing artificial intelligence. Familiarity with MRI systems and engineering is desirable but not a necessary requirement.

This project is part of the centre for medical engineering (https://medicalengineering.org.uk/ ) within the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences based at St Thomas’ Hospital (https://www.kcl.ac.uk/bmeis/about-us/about-us). The School is home to a large community of researchers working to improve healthcare through the use of advanced engineering, includes an active program of research and development of MRI. Our close partnerships with industry and St. Thomas’ Hospital allow us to deliver ground breaking translational impact.

Company

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.

King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

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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