SNRLab:job-opening2010

Job Posting

• • Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Research Associate, or Junior Faculty aiming Principal Investigator-ship
  • 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.
  • [For Junior Faculty position] Obtain research grants and get trained for PI- and directorship.
  • [For Junior Faculty position] Report and interact with the other investigator at National Center for Image Guided Therapy

• 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, or two year for Junior faculty 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 cover 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