Research Fellow

Job id: 086567. Wage: £51,974 – £61,021 each year, together with London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 19 March 2024. Cut-off date: 24 March 2024.

Enterprise unit: College of Life Sciences & Drugs. Division: Surgical & Interventional Engineering.

Contact particulars:Dr. Rachel Sparks. [email protected]

Location: St Thomas’ Campus. Class: Analysis.

Job description

We’re in search of a part-time senior post-doctoral researcher to help the scientific uptake of our novel image-guided computer-assisted planning software program, EpiNav. The submit holder would be the interface between the event workforce at KCL and our scientific collaborators on the Nationwide Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) and different dissemination websites together with King’s Faculty Hospital.

On this function, the submit holder shall be chargeable for serving to to coach clinicians to make use of the software program, present related coaching supplies in addition to present help within the type of picture processing and the creating of normal working procedures. They are going to be chargeable for serving to the technical workforce to outline customary working procedures for the most effective use of the software program and highlighting issues encountered within the software program throughout routine use. The place acceptable they’ll assist to determine doable centres to make use of the software program and assist to evaluate their suitability as a dissemination website.

The submit holder shall be supervised by and work in shut collaboration with Dr. Rachel Sparks, a Lecturer within the Division of Surgical & Interventional Engineering. Candidates will need to have clear demonstratable expertise speaking with clinicians which can be a part of the epilepsy surgical workflow and have to be acquainted with the epilepsy surgical workflow within the U.Okay.  Candidates have to be educated about neuroimage processing together with segmentation and registration strategies. Moreover, they have to pay attention to tips on how to entry and anonymise DICOM scans. Candidates ought to know the completely different occasions of medical scans acquired as a part of assessing epilepsy and pay attention to their benefits and downsides. Candidates will need to have glorious oral and written communication abilities and a demonstrated monitor document of working with a workforce to ship prime quality publications. Familiarity with the EpiNav software program and its use in scientific observe is fascinating. Expertise with image-guided interventions and coaching clinicians to make use of open-source software program is preferable.

This submit shall be provided on a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

It is a part-time submit – 20% full time equal.