Phd positions in K.U.Leuven Future Health Department

Are you the next generation

• Converting clever ideas into clinical applications?
• Providing top Information Technology for patients?
• Helping policy makers design an affordable health care system?

Would you like to do a Ph.D. or postdoc in a vibrant, performance-oriented atmosphere, with lots of challenges and plenty of fun?

Have a glance on what drives some of our SISTA team members.

 

The IBBT – K.U.Leuven Future Health Department invites applications for Ph.D. candidate and postdoc candidate positions (m/f)

Please find below a number of exemplary PhD research profiles. Postdocs interested in these research lines are also invited to contact us.

Positions focusing on genomics and next gen sequencing for translational medicine

• Reporting of genome sequencing results in a clinical setting
• Identification and visualization of structural variation in the human genome
• High-performance data analytics for nextgeneration sequencing data analysis
• Network analysis of analysis of disease phenotypes and drug responses
• Federated and collaborative knowledge bases for genomic medicine

Positions focusing on biomedical signal processing and hearing aids

• Advanced algorithms for integrated EEG-fMRI data processing
• Compressive Sensing for Biomedical Signals
• Distributed Noise Reduction in Hearing Aids

Positions focusing on data mining and biostatistics for pattern recognition, data analysis and data fusion

• Policy Decision Support Systems to objectively evaluate care
• Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Bioinformatics
• Decision Support Systems for Cardiovascular Diseases
• Analysis of multicentre data on the preoperative diagnosis of ovarian tumours based on standard and advanced prediction models
• Biomedical text mining and network analysis for disease gene discovery

For more information on these positions and requirements please contact inge.thijs@esat.kuleuven.be or steven.vandeput@esat.kuleuven.be  before April 7th.

Recruitment process

If you are interested in one of these research profiles, please send us your detailed CV, including study results, motivation letter, and two references (e-mail and telephone number).

After a first selection candidates will be invited for a first intake interview.

Applications will be handled in strict confidence.