Postdoctoral Researcher, Cúram,

**Postdoctoral Researcher, Cúram, (University of Galway 046-24)**:

- Employer- University of Galway (NUI Galway)- Location- Galway (County), Connacht (IE)- Salary- Competitive- Closing date- 27 Mar 2024- Discipline
Engineering
Job Type
Postdoctoral
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
PhD
Sector
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**Job Details**:
This position is funded through the Global Challenges award scheme, University of Galway and is available from April 2024 for 3 years.

**Duties**:
Analyse and characterise clinical imaging datasets (e.g. computed tomography angiography) generated by the project using computational methods.

In combination with clinical and registry data, determine and prepare a suitable training dataset and relevant machine learning methods to develop an initial classification model for clots.

Develop and refine algorithmic models to classify stroke clot types based on CTA images and basic clot compositional analysis.

Publication of research outcomes in high impact factor journals

Travel: active participation and presentations at international conferences, in-person collaborators meetings and networking events

Human data science and statistical analysis

Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post

**Qualifications/Skills required**:
**Essential Requirements**:
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a domain related to computer or computational science, including data science.

Experience in data engineering, curation for tasks such as analytics, modelling (statistical and AI techniques), visualisation.

Practical experience with computational image analysis and classification methods.

A solid track record in software development experience in Python, R, or C/C++.

High quality first author publications

Excellent statistical analysis skills, from conventional to modern machine learning methods

Excellent oral presentation skills

Excellent team working, organisational and inter-personal skills

**Desirable Requirements**:
Familiarity and ideally practical experience with analysis of biomedical image datasets.

Minimum of 6 high quality publications, 3 as first author

Leadership and project management capability

Public patient interaction experience

Experience in human data science

Research Salary Scales - University of Galway).

**Start date**: Position is available from 01 April 2024

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University of Galway is an equal opportunities employer.

All positions are recruited in line with Open, Transparent, Merit (OTM) and Competency based recruitment

**Company**:
NUI Galway is recognized as a research-led University that addresses issues of global economic and societal importance. Our research strategy focuses on developing clusters of internationally recognised expertise in selected priority areas. We have developed meaningful and strategic research alliances with economic, social and cultural partners in areas of regional and national importance. This strategy has resulted in the creation of research clusters in themes that are academically challenging, economically viable and regionally and nationally relevant. We continue to develop our research priorities within the national and international context in addition to supporting emerging and cross cutting priority area development. Our priority research areas build upon our key strengths and include:

- Biomedical Science and Engineering
- Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences
- Environment, Marine and Energy
- Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy
- Humanities in Context including Digital Humanities

These priority areas seek to address the challenges and needs of society. Our research leads to life changing discoveries and polices that shape the future both nationally and internationally. Our vibrant and dynamic community attracts researcher leaders, academics, entrepreneurs and students of the highest calibre who thrive in our research focused environment. This is embodied though our research commitment, which seeks to:
1. Contribute to Knowledge

2. Create partnerships with Industry

3. Educate Future Leaders

4. Shape the Direction of Public Policy

5. Enable Regional