Neurology - 411801

05/20/2024

Yes

Postdoctoral Scholar

Post-Doc Research Associate

PDS004218

Full-Time Temporary

40

1

Chapel Hill, NC

North Carolina, US

Dependent on Qualifications

12 Months

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The Functional MRI Laboratory (Principal Investigator: Varina Boerwinkle, MD) at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill is dedicated to studying the brain networks of children with disease using resting state functional MRI in conjunction with multimodal neuroimaging (MRI, task-fMRI, DTI, DSI, MRS, MRA, PET, CT), neuroelectrophysiology (EEG, MEG) and computational models grounded on biophysics and applied mathematics. Approaches in fields of network theory, machine learning, neural networks & deep learning, multivariate statistics, scientific visualization and nonlinear dynamics are applied in the ongoing investigations. The Principal Investigator and her collaborators have quantified brain disease primarily in children with intractable epilepsy, demonstrating capacity to develop novel solutions, and increased cure rates, contributing directly to patient-tailored approaches in clinical patient care.
The laboratory has postdoctoral scholar positions open for research. This position would be ideal for PhD holders who are interested in using neuroimaging, advanced neuroimaging analysis methodology, and big data science and related approaches to explore interesting problems in the pediatric neurological disorders including epilepsy, cerebral palsy related movement disorders, and disorders of consciousness. The scholar will use advanced techniques for visualization, computational neuroanatomy, longitudinal neuroimage analysis and multivariate models of brain aging to facilitate scientific discovery and to assist the development of next-generation neuroimage analysis.

A PhD or equivalent doctorate in neuroscience, neurobiology, engineering, biophysics, computer science or applied mathematics is required. Applicants with degrees in related fields will also be considered, and individuals with strong quantitative and computational backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

The successful applicant will be able to work independently with a small amount of supervision and should demonstrate good interpersonal skills as well as an interest in collaborative research. A strong interest in building a good publication record is essential.

Prior experience with resting state functional MRI analysis, an interest in image processing approaches and good writing skills are highly desirable.