SNRLab:job-opening2010

Job Posting

Post-doctoral Research Fellow SNR Laboratory, Image Guided Therapy Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

• Name of employing hospital and department:
  • Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

• Report to*
  • Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology

• 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.
  • Skill for CAD/CAM design, fabrication, machining, and control program development are must.
  • Programing skill related to surgical navigation, medical image processing are plus.

• 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.
  • Interface with external collaborators and assist in their application of the developed tools and software

• 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.

• Duration

One year. Renewal subject to funding availability.

• Contact:

. Dr. Nobuhiko Hata, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, hata@bwh.harvard.edu