Post-doc in Traumatic Brain Injury and multi-modal imaging at the 
University of Cambridge

http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13196/

The post holder will work with other members of the Division of 
Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge to support the optimisation, 
standardisation and development of multi-modal MRI and X-ray CT data 
analysis pipelines for both healthy subjects and Traumatic Brain Injury 
patients. Some of the challenges involved include automatic detection of 
brain lesions, improved segmentation of anatomical structures, and 
functional and effective connectivity analysis. These analysis pipelines 
will be developed within the scope of CENTER-TBI, a large collaborative 
European project involving 60 centres from 20 countries 
(www.center-tbi.eu), and includes over 5000 patients with traumatic 
brain injury. This longitudinal study will include multiple neuroimaging 
sessions at different time-points, comprising CT images and a number of 
different MRI datasets including T1- and T2-weighted structural MRI, 
diffusion MRI, and resting state functional MRI, amongst others. These 
pipelines will be used in subsequent research studies and grant 
applications. If successful, these may represent opportunities for 
extension of this research initiative beyond the defined period of this 
post.

The post-holder will be line-managed by Prof David Menon, but also work 
closely with other MRI researchers at the Division of Anaesthetics (e.g. 
Dr Virginia Newcombe, Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Dr Jonathan Coles). 
He/she will also collaborate with members of the larger Cambridge 
Neuroimaging community, including Dr Guy Williams (Wolfson Brain Imaging 
Centre - WBIC) and Dr Marta Correia (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences 
Unit - CBU), and interact with collaborators in the Computer Vision 
Group at Imperial College, London, led by Prof Daniel Rueckert and Dr 
Ben Glocker.

The post offers scope for independent research and methods development 
in neuroimaging data analysis. We would be very willing to discuss the 
research aspirations of individual applicants, and find ways in which 
they could be provided time to pursue these, providing that they are in 
the same broad area of research.

For informal visits or if you have any questions about this vacancy or 
the application process please contact Dr Jonathan Coles 
([log in to unmask]), Dr Marta Correia ([log in to unmask]), Dr Virginia 
Newcombe ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Emmanuel A Stamatakis 
([log in to unmask]). Alternatively phone: 01223 217889.