Position: PhD studentship funded by EU Host-Driven Marie Curie Action RTN (Marie Curie job opportunity for Early Stage Researcher, 0-4 years of experience).
Place of work: Bratislava, Slovakia
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 3 years
Start date: 01/09/2007
Deadline for application: 01/04/2007
Job title: Magnetic Resonance of Hyperpolarised Gases
Profile: Graduate or Masters: Engineer or Physicists with a strong theoretical and experimental background, knowledge of electronics and programming in languages such as C, Mathematica (Wolfram Research), or Matlab.
Job description: The work will involve implementation of novel imaging instrumentation and techniques on 0.1 T whole body MRI systems for 3He MRI. The student will be encouraged to participate in ongoing collaborations with other researchers across Europe with multiple opportunities to visit leading international laboratories and to attend taught summer schools.
Funding: The project is funded as part of the EU- 6th Framework Program - Research and Training Network "PHELINET" (Polarised Helium Lung Imaging Network, 2007-2011, information posted on http://www.phil.ens.fr). As a consequence, specific rules with trans-national mobility conditions apply for recruitment.
Gross amount of employment contract: 21,018 euros/year. Recruited researchers in Marie Curie RTNs also receive travel, mobility, and relocation allowances. 
Restrictive conditions: For detailed information about the rules of mobility and conditions of nationality applicable to eligible researchers, please visit: http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp6/mariecurie-actions/. In particular: 1/The candidate should preferably (but not exclusively) be a national of EU Member or Associated States, excluding Slovakia; 2/ At the date of appointment, she/he should not have resided or worked in Sloavakia for more than 12 months in the last 3 years. PHELINET recruitment is based on an equal opportunity policy. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
Contact: For more information on the projects, please contact Pr Ivan Frollo, Professor of Measurement Science, Supervisor of PhD study, Head of Department of Imaging methods. Project leader of MRI projects, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia. Tel.:    +4212 5477 4033. Fax.:   +4212 5477 5943.
E-mail:  frollo@savba.sk. Web page: http://www.um.sav.sk


 
