Dear All, please find below an announcement for a research assistant position.

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Neuroimaging Research Engineer - Centre IRMf de La Timone, Marseille, France

Recruitment date: May 2013
Application closing date: May 15th, 2013
Contract duration: 30 months
Salary: 19.000 – 24.000 Euros / year, depending on experience

Context
The La Timone fMRI Centre (http://irmfmrs.free.fr/) of the Institut des Neurosciences de La Timone (http://www.int.univ-amu.fr/) in Marseille provides neuroscientists, medical researchers, and psychologists from the Aix - Marseilles area and beyond with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) services. The Centre operates a 3 Tesla MR system fully dedicated to neuroscience and psychology research in human and non-human primates and equipped with high-end stimulation and recording systems.  The Centre, affiliated to CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, is involved in clinical, fundamental and methodological research and technical development through collaboration with local, national and international research groups and with a strong involvement in training and teaching.

Mission
The post holder will have for mission to assist the user community with basic and advanced analysis of cerebral MRI data (functional and structural). Specifically, tasks include:
- Advise and help users with standard analysis of brain MR data
- Help users with advanced analyses such as functional connectivity, diffusion tensor imaging, tractography, multivariate analysis, morphometry, ...
- Develop and optimize software pipelines
- Assist with the design and set-up of new studies
- Contribute to education and training of the users

Profile of the candidate
Background in neuroimaging essential
Experience with brain image analysis packages (e.g., SPM, Freesurfer, BrainVISA or FSL)
Experience with development of brain image analysis methods or/and their application to neuroimaging studies desirable
Good knowledge of statistical methods and tools
Expertise with one or several programming languages (Matlab, Python, C/C++)
Autonomy, initiative, ability to work at the interface between multidisciplinary teams

Information requests and applications should be addressed to Jean-Luc.Anton@univ-amu.fr, Patricia.Romaiguere@univ-amu.fr, and Pascal.Belin@univ-amu.fr



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Olivier Coulon,
CNRS research Fellow,
Head of the Images&Models team
olivier.coulon@univ-amu.fr
Tel: +33491828527
fax: +33491828550

http://olivier.coulon.perso.esil.univmed.fr
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13288 Marseille cedex 09,
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