Research engineer – Neuroimaging in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
(ICM, Paris, France)
Recruitment date: as soon as possible
Type of contract: Limited duration (18 months)
Gross salary: 33.000 Euros / year
Status / category: Engineer
Context:
The Brain & Spine Institute (ICM) is a research centre of international
dimensions located within the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris. Its
mission is to develop new strategies to improve the management of
neurological diseases. The ICM is localized in the largest European
hospital, in a top-level French university (University Pierre and Marie
Curie). Its research activity takes place in a unique environment
associating core technological facilities, space for industrial partners
and a centre for clinical investigations.
This position is offered within the IHU A-ICM project, a Foundation of
Scientific Cooperation that federates the scientific and medical
expertise of four partners from the public sector (Public Hospitals of
Paris (AP-HP), National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), National
Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) and Pierre and Marie
Curie University-Paris6 (UPMC).
Mission and main activities
Main mission: Develop brain image analysis projects for the teams of the
IHU working on Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
(fronto-temporal dementia, dementia with Lewy bodies, primary
progressive aphasias…)
Functional links: The recruited engineer will work within the brain
image analysis team Cogimage (O. Colliot) of the ICM. He/she will be in
close connection with IM2A (Pr B. Dubois), CENIR (Pr S. Lehéricy), the
Functional Imaging Laboratory (H. Benali) and the other teams of the IHU
working on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.
Activities:
Analysis of MRI data (volumetry, morphometry, tractography,
resting-state, classifiers) of the projects coordinated by the teams of
the IHU working on Alzheimer’s disease and dementia
Scientific monitoring and litterature updates on brain image analysis
methods applied to dementia
Development of new image analysis tools and automatic classifiers for
the identification of biomarkers
Assistance to the design and set-up of new studies (choice of protocols
and imaging markers)
Evaluation of the different available methods and choice of the most
appropriate ones
Management of the interface between researchers in image and signal
processing, clinical and neuroscience teams of the IHU and the
neuroimaging platform CENIR
Profile of the candidate
PhD in neuroimaging
An experience in development of brain image analysis methods or/and
their application to neuroimaging studies in patients
Qualities
Knowledge of one or several brain image analysis packages (SPM,
Freesurfer, BrainVISA or FSL)
Knowledge of statistical methods and tools.
Knowledge of one or several programming languages (Matlab, Python or C/C++)
Mastering oral and written scientific English
Autonomy, having initiative, ability to work at the interface between
multidisciplinary teams
For more information, please contact: Olivier Colliot -
olivier.colliot(a)upmc.fr