The Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral position. The position is with the Department’s Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND), located at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in San Francisco.
The focus of the position will be on the development of new magnetic resonance spectroscopic acquisition methods for detection of brain metabolites at 4 Tesla and the application and development of spectral analysis techniques. The successful applicant will be expected to further advance methods for detection of J-coupled metabolites at high magnetic fields and is expected to be familiar with corresponding RF pulse design and spectroscopic analysis methods suitable for clinical research. The candidate would also collaborate on several ongoing clinical studies of epilepsy, normal aging, dementias, substance abuse, and other neurodegenerative diseases. Additional information about the CIND is available at the CIND website: http://www.cind.research.va.gov/
The candidate should have a Ph.D. in physics, physical chemistry, engineering or equivalent fields. The ideal candidate has a solid background in NMR physics, especially spectroscopy, signal detection and processing theory, and demonstrated hands-on experience in pulse sequence development, preferably within the Siemens IDEA programming environment. Experience in other computer languages, including C++, Matlab and IDL, is desirable.
Interested applicants should email a letter of research interests and a CV to:
Dr. Gerald Matson, Ph.D. gerald.matson@ucsf.edu
