PhD Scholarship at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf – Dresden (Germany)

• PhD – Individual Supervisor

• Mathematics / Natural Sciences

As part of the Institute, the Department of Medical Radiation Physics, invites applications as PhD Student (m/f/d). The position will be available from 1 April 2019. The employment contract is limited to three years. The regular weekly working time will be 19.5 hours. The place of work is Dresden-Rossendorf.

Tasks:
The aim of the PhD thesis is the combination of parameters from molecular analyses of tumour material with parameters from medical imaging using advanced machine-learning and deep-learning approaches with the aim to improve personalised cancer therapy.
This contains specifically:
-the development and validation of prognostic biomarkers from medical imaging data for patients with head and neck tumours
-the definition of human-understandable imaging parameters and their association with differently expressed molecular pathways or specific molecular markers
-the combination of molecular and imaging parameters in joint biomarker signatures
-the application of modern machine-learning and deep learning algorithms
-pre-processing and evaluation of medical imaging and molecular data

We offer:
-high scientific professional networking as well as scientific excellence
-internationality and diversity
-interesting and diverse tasks, flexible working hours, salary based on the collective agreement TVöD-Bund
-equality of opportunity and family-friendly structures, corporate health management
-attractive work and research terms in a highly motivated team

If you have any questions, please contact PD Dr. Steffen Löck Tel.: +49 351 458 7408 or Dr. Nicole Klein Tel.: +49 351 458 7440.

Kindly submit your completed application (including cover letter, CV, diplomas/transcripts, etc.) by 20 January 2019 only via Online application https://www.hzdr.de/jobs.

The HZDR is committed to equal opportunity employment and we strongly encourage applications from qualified female candidates. We also carefully consider all applications from job candidates with severe disabilities.

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