Postdoc – Multimodal image registration

Your Job:

• Combine multimodal brain imaging with advanced image-processing, data science, and AI techniques to perform image alignment, segmentation, and classification to construct and validate unique three-dimensional maps of neurotransmitter receptor distributions in the human, non-human primate and rodent brain
  
• Develop efficient processing pipelines enabling the spatial integration of functional datasets (e.g. functional magnetic resonance imaging data or electrophysiological recordings) with the neurotransmitter receptor maps
  
• Work closely with an interdisciplinary team of neuroscientists, computer scientists and physicists to combine our extensive expertise in neuroscience, imaging and AI into viable solutions
  
• Publish your results in high-quality scientific articles
  
• National and international travel to present at scientific conferences and strengthen inter-lab cooperations

Your Profile:

• University degree (Master) in computer science, physics or a comparable scientific field
  
• PhD in one of the above fields
  
• Solid methodological background in image processing and AI
  
• Strong publication record in relevant fields
  
• Hands-on programming experience in Python for data science, image processing, and using brain imaging data (volumetric and surface-based)
  
• Neuroscientific knowledge is welcome but not necessary
  
• Ability to work independently and self-driven in a team
  
• Enjoy working in a productive multidisciplinary, international team
  
• Good communication skills and high-quality writing in English

Our Offer:

We work on the very latest issues that impact our society and are offering you the chance to actively help in shaping the change! We support you in your work with:

• Exciting working environment on an attractive research campus with excellent infrastructure, located between the cities of Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Aachen
  
• Comprehensive training courses and individual opportunities for personal and professional further development
  
• Extensive company health management and a variety of sports activities (e.g. beach volleyball court, running groups, yoga classes, and much more)
  
• Ideal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly corporate policy supported by our Equal Opportunities Bureau
  
• Flexible work (location) arrangements, e.g. remote work
  
• Targeted services for international employees, e.g. through our International Advisory Service
  
• 30 days of annual leave and provision for days off between public holidays and weekends (e.g. between Christmas and New Year)
  
• Capital-forming benefits and an employee pension scheme
  

In addition to exciting tasks and a collaborative working atmosphere at Jülich, we have a lot more to offer: https://go.fzj.de/benefits

You will be initially employed for a fixed term of 2 years but with the prospect of longer-term employment. Salary and social security benefits will conform to the provisions of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund), pay group 13, depending on your current qualifications and the precise nature of the tasks assigned to you. All information about the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) can be found on the BMI website: https://go.fzj.de/bmi.tvoed. The monthly salaries in euros can be found on page 66 of the PDF download.

We particularly welcome applications from people from a diverse range of backgrounds (e.g. regardless of age, gender, disabilities, sexual orientation/identity, as well as social, ethnic, and religious background). We strive to offer a diverse and inclusive working environment in which people enjoy equal opportunities and are able to fulfill their potential.

Further information on diversity and equal opportunities: https://go.fzj.de/equality