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The Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) is an interdisciplinary research center with great international impact. Through close collaboration between clinical practice and research in engineering and medicine CMIV creates solutions for future challenges. The goal is to create innovative methods and tools for image analysis and visualization that can be applied in healthcare and medical research.
Read more at www.liu.se/cmiv
We are looking for Research Assistant in Digital Pathology within the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization
Your future work assignments
A research assistant will essentially support researchers with various activities, for example, data gathering, experiment preparation, result documentation and analysis, and scientific writing.
Diagnostic pathology is an area of utmost importance for health care. For example, the cancer care chain relies on fast and accurate cellular analyses of tissue samples, i.e., histopathology. The demands are increasing due to an ageing population and an expanding set of specialized diagnostics, while pathologists are an increasingly scarce resource. The latest generation of scanners for microscopy slides, however, provides exciting possibilities to work with visualization and image analysis techniques in order to achieve new levels of efficiency and accuracy.
This position as research assistant is devoted to applied research in image analysis to address the challenges in diagnostic histopathology. The position is part of a larger project on digital pathology solutions headed by CMIV (www.liu.se/cmiv/digital-patologi), in which method development is being conducted at a high technical level but also thoroughly addressing the demands from real clinical usage. This means that there is a work environment with many experts working towards similar goals including a close collaboration with prominent pathologists as well as industrial partners such as Sectra.
Your future workplace
The Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) is an interdisciplinary research center with great international impact. Through close collaboration between clinical practice and research in engineering and medicine CMIV creates solutions for future challenges. The goal is to create innovative methods and tools for image analysis and visualization that can be applied in healthcare and medical research. To the center is currently over 60 senior researchers and 28 PhD students associated. Read more at www.liu.se/cmiv.
Your qualifications
We are looking for someone who has a degree as Medical Doctor, from a Swedish or an international University. Experience of bioscience is a strong positive factor for this position, and related important qualifications are experience of microscopy work and knowledge of histology. Important merits also include experience from working in scientific projects. The position requires excellent communication abilities, both spoken and written, in the English language.
Form of employment
Fulltime. The position is a temporary appointment ending March 31st, 2017.
Starting date
By agreement but tentatively in December, 2016.
Salary
The university applies individual salaries. Please indicate salary demands in the application.
Union representatives
For contact with union representatives see www.liu.se/jobba/lediga-jobb/fackliga-kontaktpersoner?l=en&sc=true
Application
To apply, please register your profile and attach your application documents via the link below no later than 9th of December 2016. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.
Equal opportunities
Linköping University will continue to develop as an attractive and creative place of work, characterized by equal terms and actively works for equality and diversity.
We look forward to receiving your application!
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Contact person
Claes Lundström
Adj universitetslektor
+46 706 055016
claes.lundstrom@liu.se
Pernilla Eriksson
HR-konsult
+46 13 284450
pernilla.eriksson@liu.se
