Research Fellow in MRI applied to epilepsy

About Us

The post will be based at St Thomas’ Hospital in central London in the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences at King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/bmeis . There is an unmatched infrastructure within the School to support cutting-edge translational research, including one of the UK’s only 7 Tesla MRI systems located inside a hospital environment, state-of-the-art engineering and physics laboratories, high-performance computing, and industry collaboration through the London Institute for Healthcare Engineering.  

About The Role

Severe epilepsy has a devastating impact on the lives of patients and their families. For many patients’ medication is ineffective and surgery is the only curative treatment. However, surgery requires confident knowledge of the location of the epilepsy lesion (abnormal tissue whose aberrant electrical activity causes seizures). We are pioneering the use of Ultra-high field 7T MRI and AI based lesion detection to allow more patients to benefit from life-changing surgery.

You will join a project team of post-doctoral scientists, Imaging physicists, Neurologists, Clinical Neurophysiologists and Neuro-Radiologists at KCL and Cambridge Universities and their partner hospitals to achieve this aim.

You will be responsible for optimising data acquisition and processing through novel methodological development in either image acquisition, reconstruction or post-processing (e.g. AI-based lesion identification) under the primary direction of Prof David Carmichael. You will also ensure the delivery of high-quality data to the clinical research team to meet the clinical research objectives.

This is a full time post (100% FTE), and you will be offered fixed term contract until 10th November 2029.

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