Job ID: 122396
PhD student
Position: Ph.D. Student
Deadline: 30 April 2025
Employment Start Date: 1 June 2025
Contract Length: 4 years
City: Brussels + Yvoir
Country: Belgium
Institution: UCLouvain
Department: Institute of Neuroscience
Description:
The Institute of Neuroscience (IoNS) of UCLouvain is looking for a highly motivated PhD student to run a multidisciplinary research project in NeuroScience on two Belgian sites: the Brussels and Yvoir University Hospitals of UCLouvain.
The project aims at quantifying motor function recovery and motor learning in the early phase of stroke by means of robotics and at correlating recovery and motor learning with multimodal brain MRI. Healthy control subjects will be recruited for comparison purposes.
The successful candidate will have a strong neuroscience, medical, engineering or scientific background, and/or experience with Matlab or Python programming, and/or multimodal MRI, and/or robotics applied to neuroscience/human movements.
The call is open to people with a Master 120 and a degree in medicine, neuroscience / biomedical science, engineering, psychology or physical / occupational therapy.
Depending on her/his basic skills, the candidate will have the opportunity to:
- Receive training in multimodal MRI data collection and analysis (BrainVoyager, SPM …)
- Receive training in robotic data collection and analysis (Matlab or Python)
- Receive training in clinical data collection and analysis
- Receive training in statistical analysis and programming (R studio …)
- Receive training in scientific writing – communication
- Be involved in data collection and curation (Data Management Plan – Data Repository)
- Interact with a multidisciplinary team (neurologists, MRI experts, neuroscience / motor control experts, physical therapists, stroke unit nurses, engineers, statisticians, IT experts …)
- Interact with acute stroke patients and healthy control subjects
If you do NOT speak French fluently, please do NOT apply. Indeed, the project will involve French-speaking acute patients from the Stroke Units of the Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc (Brussels) and CHU UCL Namur (Yvoir).
The application will include a full CV, a letter of motivation underling why the candidate is the best suited for this project, and 2 letters of recommendation.
Submission deadline: 30 April 2025.
The project will start immediately after the selection of the candidate.
Please, send your application to:
Pr Yves Vandermeeren, MD, PhD