项目介绍

2025年3月25日

Our team consists of the Spinal Cord Injury Center Group at Balgrist University Hospital (https://www.sci-research.uzh.ch/en/aboutus.html) and The Interface Group at the University of Zurich (interfacegroup.ch). The Spinal Cord Injury Center provides highly specialized treatment for spinal cord injury patients by an interdisciplinary team of surgeons and neurologists. The Interface Group provides a creative, cross-disciplinary international work environment with outstanding infrastructure for computational research in biomedicine, physiology and biophysics. This unique constellation of clinical and basic sciences enables fast translation of research findings to benefit patients.

Your responsibilities

The core task of the PhD student will be the development of a computational model of CSF dynamics and spinal cord compression. This will be based upon the collected data in patients and animals, as well as established physical and physiological concepts CSF fluid dynamics and CSF space obstruction. The PhD student will be trained in the relevant clinical and physiological areas, and mentored in computational modeling. The student will also participate in the data acquisition in large animals (adapting the data acquisition software for the new measurements (LabView), surgical assistance, animal handling) and in clinical data acquisition (assisting with signal monitoring in the operating theatre). This project has the potential to elucidate entirely novel avenues to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of spinal cord disease.

Your profile

Your goal is to have an immediate impact on the lives of patients. You are intrigued by the potential of combining neuroimaging and biomechanical proxies for evaluating spinal cord compression. You have a background in (biomedical) engineering, in physiology with strong technical expertise in data acquisition and analysis, or a comparable background. You are comfortable with working alongside medical doctors in the operating theater, with veterinarians for data acquisition on large animals, and in collaboration with engineers on the analysis of image and signal analysis. You are open to spending part of your PhD with our collaborators in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Information on your application

Please send us your full application including CV and motivation letter.

Questions about the job

Carl Moritz ZipserSenior Neurologist