Research Associate

This is an outstanding opportunity for a Research Associate, with a background in deep learning and medical image analysis, to work within the reirradiation research team under the supervision of Dr Vasquez Osorio. The post holder will be part of the Radiotherapy Related Research (RRR) group, which is based at the Paterson Building in Withington.
The candidate will support the aims of Dr Vasquez Osorio’s UKRI Future Leader Fellowship on Advancing Reirradiation and Treatment Outcome Understanding with Robust Dose Mapping and Causal Inference. This innovative project will study how to develop advanced reirradiation-specific deformable image registration methodologies to handle complex anatomical changes and missing tissues in patients undergoing reirradiation.This position offers an ideal opportunity for an enthusiastic, well-motivated individual to work as part of a sociable multi-disciplinary team consisting of physicists, computer scientists, clinicians, radiographers, and imaging experts. The ideal candidate will have excellent interpersonal, communication, programming, and organisational skills, and will be able to work with minimal supervision. Experience of medical image processing and deformable image registration (particularly deep learning–based approaches) is essential for the position.What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers
  

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more hereHybrid working arrangements may be considered.Please be aware that due to the number of applications we are unfortunately not able to provide individual feedback on your application.Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Name: Dr Eliana Vasquez OsorioEmail: Eliana.vasquezosorio@manchester.ac.ukName: Dr Ruth FormanEmail: ruth.forman@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

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This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

Please see the link below for the Further Particulars document which contains the person specification criteria.