euHeart: Personalised & Integrated Cardiac Care
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Applications are invited for two, 3-year, DPhil studentships funded under the project “euHeart,” within the Computational Biology Group at Oxford University’s Computing Laboratory. The aim is to develop multiscale, electromechanical models of the heart to guide the optimisation of clinical therapies such as cardiac resynchronisation therapy. Such therapies are utilized to treat the progression of congestive heart failure, which continues to be a growing problem affecting up to 4 million people in the European Union and nearly 15 million people worldwide. The research will involve working within an interdisciplinary team involving engineers, clinicians and mathematicians.
The studentships are fully funded (at EU fees level – overseas candidates will need supplementary funding) for three years from October 2008 and include stipends of £12,940 per year, as well as provision for travel to conferences.
Candidates must satisfy the usual requirements for taking on doctoral study at Oxford (please refer to http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/dphil-criteria.pdf), as well as meet the following, essential, criteria:
- A degree in Bio-medical Engineering, Mathematical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Physics or Computer Science is required.
- Demonstrated ability to develop mathematical algorithms in a modern computing environment (preferably one or more of Matlab/Fortan90/C++);
- Willingness to work in biomedical computational modelling.
- Ability to function productively in a team, with good English and general communication skills.
The closing date for applications for the DPhil Studentships will be 26th September, 2008.
Further information and details of the application process can be found here:
http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/prospective/dphil/nicsmithfurtherinfo.pdf
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