Postdoctoral or Research Engineer Position – MEG-CERMEP-Lyon

France Life Imaging; Lyon; Sur place; EUR 40 000 - 60 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Un laboratoire de recherche en neurologie à Lyon recherche un chercheur postdoctoral pour un poste à temps plein. Vous développerez de nouvelles approches d'analyse de données pour des capteurs MEG novateurs. Le candidat idéal doit avoir un diplôme en ingénierie biomédicale ou électrique et être à l'aise en programmation. La rémunération varie de 2 000 € à 2 800 € par mois après impôts. Le poste est financé jusqu'à fin 2024.

Qualifications

• Compétences en traitement du signal nécessaires.
• Expérience avec signaux électrophysiologiques MEG / EEG appréciée.
• Bonne maîtrise de l'anglais oral et écrit.

Responsabilités

• Tester différents capteurs MEG basés sur des magnétomètres pompés optiquement.
• Développer et évaluer de nouvelles approches d'analyse de données OPM multimodales.
• Collaborer avec le groupe OPM en croissance.

Connaissances

Traitement du signal

Programmation (MATLAB, Python)

Bon esprit d'équipe

Formation

Diplôme en ingénierie biomédicale / électrique ou doctorat

Description du poste

Contexte et mission

Full-time post-doctoral / research engineer position in the Lyon CERMEP MEG lab.

Contexte: The position is for a methodologically-oriented person to test different MEG sensors based on Optically Pumped Magnetometers (OPMs), to develop and to evaluate new multimodal OPM data analysis approaches to correct artefacts and to perform source localisation. We are currently running both clinical studies (mainly on epilepsy) and neuroscience studies.

Objectifs

Our ultimate goal is to build a fully featured OPM MEG Lab in Lyon by the end of 2024. This position will allow the postdoctoral fellow to gain expertise early in a new technology which promises to be very relevant for human neuroscience and clinical research. OPMs are wearable MEG sensors which can be placed near the scalp, offering a 3-8 fold increase in SNR of neuromagnetic activity recording and enabling new applications, including pediatric and fetal brain activity recording.

Specifically, the postdoctoral fellow will work with a promising and original alternative to classical OPMs: our partner Mag4Health is developing beyond the state-of-the-art OPM using Helium gas. These OPMs have unique advantages: (i) operate at room temperature without heating, (ii) large dynamic range allowing for lightweight shielding and subject movement, and a large frequency bandwidth (0-2 kHz) suitable for brain activity; (iii) they output a 3D vectorial measure of the magnetic field, enabling access to previously non-recorded brain activities.

Lieu

The selected postdoctoral fellow will be supervised by Denis Schwartz and will be located at the CERMEP MEG Lab. They will collaborate with our growing OPM work group (James Bonaiuto, Suliann Ben Hammed, Jean-Claude Dreher from ISCMJ, Olivier Bertrand, Jérémie Mattout, Romain Quentin, Mathilde Bonnefond from CRNL, and Nils Kolling, Jérome Sallet, Emmanuel Procyk from SBRI).

Rémunération

Commensurate with experience (from 2 000 € to 2 800 € per month after taxes); the position will be funded until the end of 2024.

Diplômes requis

• Hold a biomedical / electrical engineering degree or a PhD in a related field;
• Strong signal processing skills;
• Programming skills (MATLAB; Python);
• Be an overall good lab citizen;
• Good mastery of both oral and written English.

Compétences requises

Prior experience with electrophysiological MEG (classical or OPM) / EEG signals; French is not a requirement.

Contact

Application package - CV (incl. a list of publications) - A letter of motivation - Two letters of recommendation (or contacts from which those could be obtained). Send your application package to [e-mail]