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Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuronic Engineering

KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm has grown to become one of Europe’s leading technical and engineering universities, as well as a key centre of intellectual talent and innovation. We are Sweden’s largest technical research and learning institution and home to students, researchers and faculty from around the world. Our research and education covers a wide area including natural sciences and all branches of engineering, as well as architecture, industrial management, urban planning, history and philosophy.

Workplace

Flemingsberg, Stockholm, Sweden

www.kth.se/mth/neuronik/division-of-neuronic-engineering-1.741783

Project description

We are seeking a highly motivated postdoc at the Division of Neuronic Engineering at KTH focuses on virtual analysis of rat experiments for brain trauma. Preclinical rat experiments of traumatic brain injury are widely used for neurotrauma research and therapeutic development. Today, the mechanistic pathway of experimental neurotrauma is largely unknown and yet little biomechanical reference exists for researchers to design and improve animal tests. These limitations hinder the development of optimal experiments and incur cruel animal suffering and killing.

The position is two years and you will be expected to dedicate your time develop a high-biofidelity, high-resolution computational rat model with dual applications: i) advance the mechanistic understanding of brain injury by linking computational biomechanics with experimental pathology, and ii) enhance rat experiments by correlating external impact parameters to internal biomechanical responses. You will be part of an interdisciplinary team with competent biomechanists, computational engineers, and experimentalists from Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Chalmers University of Technology, and Karolinska Institutet.

Project information: https://www.kth.se/profile/zhouz/page/virtual-rat

Qualifications

As a person you are goal-oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

  • independently pursue his or her work,

  • collaborate with others,

  • have a professional approach and

  • analyse and work with complex issues.

Great importance will be placed on the applicants’ ability of working independently, communicating in English and working in group with other researchers.

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal qualities and personal suitability.

Qualifications

Requirements

  • A doctoral degree or a foreign qualification recognised as equivalent to a doctoral degree, obtained no more than three years before the deadline for applications (With some exceptions for special reasons such as periods of sick or parental leave, kindly indicate if such reason exists in your resume).

Preferred qualifications

  • Preferably, the person should have a doctorate in Solid mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Engineering Physics or equivalent, preferably with a biomechanics background.

  • Experience with dynamic FE analysis.

  • Additional expertise in soft tissue modelling and/or constitutive modelling programming skills in constitutive modelling are desired.

Great emphasis will be placed on personal competency

Application

You send your scholarship application via email to zhou@kth.se You as the applicant have the main responsibility for ensuring that your application is complete when it is submitted. Your complete application must be received by KTH no later than 2025-08-12. Mark your application with the reference number PA-2025-2101.

The application must include the following documents:

- Curriculum vitae including relevant professional experience and knowledge.

- Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.

- Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.

Please note that you are applying for a scholarship, not a job.

If the scholarship position is placed in a security class, an approved security clearance in accordance with the Security Protection Act (2018:585) is required to be authorised. Information about whether the position is classified will be provided in connection with the recruitment process.

About the scholarship(s)

Period: 2 years

Scope: 100%

Number of scholarship holders applied for: 1

Scholarship: 31,000 sek

Location: Flemingsberg, Stockholm

EU Citizens on scholar or private funding need to bring a certificate showing EHIC insurance (a comprehensive medical- and health insurance) from the home country, which must cover during the full stay in Sweden.

Without this certificate you may only remain three months in Sweden and will not be able to register as a residence in Sweden.

The responsibility for the comprehensive insurance is strictly on the applicant.

Contact:

Svein Kleiven ( sveink@kth.se ); Zhou Zhou ( zhouz@kth.se )

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