Full Time

The appointment will be on UCL Grade 7. The starting salary will be £31,620 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

To carry out research under the supervision of the Director of the Centre for Computational Science (Professor P V Coveney), as follows:

1. Development of existing lattice-Boltzmann algorithms and codes for the study of cerebral fluid blood flow dynamics.
2. Running of such codes on workstations, clusters, supercomputers and on computational grids, nationally and internationally.
3. Development and extension of analysis and visualisation methods (including state-of-the-art segmentation analysis for the reconstruction of the intra-cranial vasculature derived from imaging data) for the interpretation of numerical simulation data, including computational steering tools and approaches. In particular, the development of automated workflows for clinical applications will be closely considered.
4. Preparation of research papers for publication in the scientific literature; and of fully documented manuals describing the content of the codes used and developed during the course of the appointment.
5. Participation in regular meetings with colleagues at UCLH, the VPH-NoE and Contra Cancrum, including reporting and assistance in the reporting of results from the work being performed at UCL within these projects.  This is likely to entail significant levels of foreign travel.
6. Assistance in the supervision of post-graduate and undergraduate students working on related computational projects within the CCS and more widely.

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience of the use of lattice-Boltzmann methods for fluid dynamics within a high performance computing environment. Experience of high performance visualisation and medical imaging methodologies would be advantageous. Applicants should have (or be about to obtain) a PhD in physics, applied mathematics, chemistry, computational biology or computer science and a proven ability to work as a member of a team.

Applications are invited for Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for Computational Science at UCL. The successful candidate will join a very active inter-disciplinary group at the Centre for Computational Science, working between two interlinked projects funded by EU FP7, the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence and Contra Cancrum (http://www.vph-noe.eu/ and http://www.contracancrum.eu).

The project will involve development, deployment and application of advanced computational methods to support clinical decision-making in interventional neurosurgery. It will involve collaboration with a clinical team at UCL Hospital.

For further information see http://www.chem.ucl.ac.uk/ccs/ and www.realitygrid.org

See further particulars including job description and person specification at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ , where you can apply online.

If you have any problems applying online please contact Ms Nilufer Betik at n.betik@ucl.ac.uk

Closing Date: 9th November 2009

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