Post-Doctoral Associate at Center for Magnetic Resonance Research - Military Veterans
at HERC- Upper MidWest
Qualifications
Required:
- PhD in physics, chemistry, biophysics, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, computer science, neuroscience or similar field
- Experience acquiring and analyzing magnetic resonance spectra or images
- Track record of scientific publications
Preferred:
- Experience in acquiring MRI or MRS data from human subjects
- Experience acquiring and analyzing MR spectroscopy data
- Commitment to team science and multi-departmental collaboration
- Good communication skills
- Experience working with research participants and/or clinical patients
Duties/Responsibilities
The Department of Radiology at the University of Minnesota seeks a scientist to join a collaborative research program developing a non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging tool to interrogate human brain metabolism using the ultra-high field 10.5 T whole-body human MRI scanner and a novel dynamic deuterium to proton exchange MRS approach. The research will be conducted at the University's world-renowned Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), in collaboration with colleagues from CMRR and other collaborating institutions.
Primary responsibility will be to develop, test and validate various sequences in healthy volunteers at 10.5 T. Additional responsibilities will be spectral processing, critical analysis of data quality, archiving data, summarizing results, preparing manuscript and presentations, interacting with other team members and collaborators, mentoring students, and pursuing research and other scholarly activities.
Minneapolis, MN
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