Post Doctoral Training Fellow

THE INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

State-of-the-art facilities

Job summary

The Institute of Cancer Research invites applications for a highly motivated post-doctoral training fellow to contribute to online adaptive radiotherapy (RT) on advanced platforms at the Royal Marsden Hospital.

Under Professor Uwe Oelfke, the successful candidate will develop real-time dynamic plan refinement and QA strategies for MR-guided RT, collaborating with computer scientists, physicists and clinicians in a multidisciplinary setting.

Qualifications

• PhD in Physics, Engineering or related field with radiotherapy physics experience.
• Experience in optimisation algorithms and MR-guided RT is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop a framework for dynamic plan refinement in real-time for MR-guided RT.
• Accelerate automated, on-line adaptive treatment planning.
• Devise QA strategies for real-time adapted RT.

Skills

Radiotherapy physics

Optimization algorithms

MR imaging

MR-guided RT

Education

PhD in Physics or Engineering

Relevant field

Job description

Under the guidance of Professor Uwe Oelfke, we are seeking a highly motivated and creative post-doctoral training fellow who is focused on a career in research to contribute to the development and clinical implementation of online adaptive RT on advanced treatment platforms (MR-Linac, C-arm linac and gantry-based treatment units) at the Royal Marsden Hospital (RMH). The successful candidate will develop a framework for dynamic plan refinement in real-time for MR-guided RT, acceleration of automated, on-line adaptive treatment planning and devise strategies for quality assurance (QA) of real-time adapted RT. The final aim of this research is to demonstrate benefit of this cutting-edge technology for patients in collaboration with clinicians and industrial partners. The projected research is part of a larger program of work funded by a Cancer Research UK (CRUK) program grant and the successful candidate will drive the work forward within a multi-disciplinary team of computer scientists, medical physicists and clinicians in the Joint Department of Physics at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

• A PhD in Physics, Engineering or another relevant field and ideally have experience in radiotherapy physics, optimisation algorithms and/or MR imaging and MR-guided RT. The Radiotherapy Physics Modelling team sits within the which spans both The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust (RMH). The team is primarily focused on the development and application of novel technology to further radiotherapy treatments. This includes novel treatment planning techniques, the development of new optimisation algorithms and using modern computer hardware to enable real-time online plan optimisation.

What we offer

• A dynamic and supportive research environment
• Access to state-of-the-art facilities and professional development opportunities
• Collaboration with leading researchers in the field
• Competitive salary and pension