Job offer

European Commission; France; Sur place; EUR 35 000 - 50 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

La Commission Européenne recrute un professeur junior en physique, spécialisé dans les applications médicales de la radiothérapie. Ce poste offre l'opportunité de participer à des projets innovants en collaboration avec de nombreuses institutions, ainsi que d'enseigner dans le cadre de programmes académiques reconnus. Les candidats doivent avoir un doctorat et une forte implication dans la recherche interdisciplinaire.

Qualifications

• Holders of a doctorate or equivalent required.
• Experience in medical imaging or radiobiology is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Participate in the development of innovative radiotherapy approaches.
• Contribute to teaching and supervising trainees in radiotherapy and physics.
• Develop collaborative research projects with various stakeholders.

Connaissances

Collaboration interdisciplinaire

Connaissances en radiothérapie

Gestion de projets

Formation

Doctorat en Physique

Description du poste

Organisation/Company CNRS Department Direction des ressources humaines Research Field Physics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Country France Application Deadline 14 Jul 2025 - 23:59 (UTC) Type of Contract Other Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 23 Jun 2025 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The recruitment of researchers with a strong involvement in the development of radiotherapy, medical imaging and radiobiology within the Nuclear & Particles Institute is a major challenge for the CNRS and academic research. This is particularly evident in the health roadmap, which states that the CNRS wishes to take advantage of its ability to mobilize multi- and inter-disciplinarity to act as a central player in meeting all the challenges of a global approach to health, from fundamental research to innovation. It points out that the creation of the Agence de programmation autour de la Santé requires all players in the health sector to organize themselves around a research strategy that will enable each of them to bring their strengths and skills to bear on the challenges of health and structural change, and thus to participate in this national project.

This project is fully in line with this strategy, developing an activity based on innovative radiotherapy, with a global, theranostic approach, focusing on hadrontherapy in the broad sense and internal vectorised radiotherapy in particular. Its aim is to make the most of the scientific, technical, instrumental and digital know-how and skills of CNRS Nuclei & Particles and the strong collaborations with CNRS Biologie. While these collaborations exist throughout France, they are particularly strong in the Normandy region, which itself provides significant support in these areas. For CNRS Nuclei & Particules and CNRS biologie, the CPJs represent a remarkable opportunity to recruit, on the basis of their national forecasts, managers for the development of these interdisciplinary themes in which the know-how of the institutes in innovative radiotherapy and radiobiology is well established.

Medical applications are a core activity of the LPC-Caen, focusing on external radiotherapy using photon beams, proton therapy and hadrontherapy. The AMI team at the LPC-Caen has recognised expertise in dosimetry, metrology, calculations for optimising treatments and simulation tools. These skills are reflected in the development of beam monitors for real-time monitoring of the dose delivered, and their evolution to meet the challenges of measuring doses in extreme conditions, such as flash mode, where the technical constraints are particularly demanding.

For its part, ISTCT is studying the benefits of using hadrons in combination with other therapies to treat radioresistant tumours. This project is part of the ARCHADE scientific programme and the recent opening of a Hadrontherapy Research Centre in Caen (CYCLHAD). The junior professor will strengthen a strong collaboration and raise Caen's profile in this field.

The project is part of the development of innovative radiotherapies, in particular that of a joint photon-hadrontherapy model integrating the dose rate (conventional to Flash) and the spatial extension of the beams (scattered vs. pencil-beams vs. µbeams). This highly interdisciplinary project involving physicists, biologists and radiotherapy oncologists will reinforce the instrumental developments carried out at the LPC-Caen in collaboration with CYCERON's ISTCT unit for their biological assessments, CIMAP and the major instruments, in particular GANIL and CYCLHAD: optimisation of irradiation lines, dosimeters, beam monitors and methodologies essential to the activities of the various platforms. The position is set against the backdrop of the start-up in 2027 of the C400, a clinical machine for proton and hadron (He, C, O) hadrontherapy, in which the person recruited will play a central role, and the strategic development of vectorised internal radiotherapy.

The University of Caen Normandie is responsible for the ERASMUS Nuclear Physics international master's programme, which has been strengthened by an EUR (graduate school) from the Normandy region and by the ExcellenceS/CaeSAR and CMA/3NC projects, of which the university was a winner as part of France 2030. There is an Applications for Therapy option in M2, and a complete radiological protection course has been created in 2022, co-accredited with INSTN. The University of Caen Normandie specialises in radiation protection and is CEFRI-certified for training radiation protection specialists. It awards a professional degree in the field. The junior lecturer will therefore be able to contribute to the teaching specific to all these training courses, supervising trainees and will be able to incorporate his or her practice into the ongoing development of a technology hall that will house the cutting-edge equipment financed by the AMI/3NC project. They will be working in a favourable, modern and progressive environment.

The CNRS is developing a strong policy in favor of open science. Open science consists of making research results "as accessible as possible and closed as necessary". As such, the CNRS aims to make 100% of the texts of publications resulting from the work of its laboratories accessible , in particular through deposit in HAL. The data produced must also be made available and reusable, except for specific restrictions. In addition, the guiding principles of individual evaluation have been revised in accordance with the DORA declaration, to be more qualitative and to take into account all facets of the researcher's profession.

The dissemination of the results will be done through world-class scientific productions: publications, patents, software... In addition, the results will be communicated to various targets such as scientific communities, media, decision makers, general public, schools, etc., with an adapted calendar. Specific tools may be developed such as websites, newsletters, meetings, international symposia, summer schools and conferences.

The relationship between science and society is now recognized as a full dimension of scientific activity. The project will develop this dimension in synergy with all the partners. The resulting research work will contribute to informing public decision-making. Participatory science initiatives may be initiated with actors from the project's socio-economic and cultural eco-system.

holders of a doctorate or a PhD or equivalent degree or applicants who have gained scientific. There is no restriction on the age or nationality of applicants. All CNRS positions are accessible to people with disabilities, with special arrangements for tests made necessary by the nature of the disability.