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=Job Posting=

**Post-doctoral Research Fellow
**at Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory (www.snrlab.org)
**Image Guided Therapy Program,
**Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

*Reporting to
**Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology

*Objective
**Develop and clinically validate innovative Medical Robots for Image-Guided Therapy
**Learn to publish results in premier journals and to acquire research funding
**Aim at independent principal investigator-ship in academic and industry research setting

*Minimum degree and field of specialized knowledge required to perform the job: 
**Candidate must have recent PhD degree in computer science, mechanical engineering, or biomedical engineering.
**Excellent technical, analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills and an ability to work independently are necessary.
**Skill for CAD/CAM design, fabrication, machining, and control program development are must.
**Programing skill related to surgical navigation, medical image processing are highly desirable.


*Characteristic duties and responsibilities:
**Design, test, and build surgical robots
**Develop control software for surgical robots
**Assess and validate surgical robots in pre-clinical AND clinical setting.
**Attend and actively participate in discussion at laboratory meetings.
**Interface with external collaborators and assist in their application of the developed tools and software
**Reports updates, plans, documents in the laboratory wiki page.
**Share source codes, mechanical drawings, and documents with laboratory members through wiki page.

*Initial assignment
**Robot for CT and/or MRI-guided per-cutaneous therapy
**Visual servoing in MRI-guided robots
**Hybrid optical/electro-magnetic tracking sensor for neurosurgery

*Compensation, benefit, employment condition:
**Per the hospital post-doctoral policy
**http://www.brighamandwomens.org/research/OPRC/Benefits_And_Policies.aspx

*Duration
**One year. Renewal subject to annual review (see Post-doc policy above) AND funding availability.
**Start day (by taking into account US visa petition process) is part of consideration in selecting candidates due to obligatory time requirement to the agencies funding the position. 

*Applicants should submit:
**A letter describing areas of research interest
**A curriculum vitae with bibliography
**Copies of 1 or 2 recent publications
**Contact information for 3 individuals serving as references
**Send the material to Dr. Nobuhiko Hata, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, hata@bwh.harvard.edu