The Laboratory for Product and Process Design at the Departments of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering , University of Illinois at Chicago, seeks outstanding candidates for a position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the area of computer visualization of transport processes in the human brain and/or computational fluid mechanics. Research projects are sponsored by the National Institute of Health and National Science Foundation. Our research involves an interdisciplinary collaboration with a team of neurosurgeons and MRI physicists at the Brain Research Imaging Center (BRIC) University of Chicago. The project aims at developing a better understanding of (a) targeted delivery of drugs to the human brain (b) and intracranial dynamics of blood and cerebrospinal fluid flow.

More details can be found in the links:

http://vienna.bioengr.uic.edu/research/CFD/Drug_Delivery.PDF
http://vienna.bioengr.uic.edu/research/BrainFluid/BrainNew.pdf

Candidates should demonstrate experience in visualization and computer animation, scientific computational fluid mechanics, transport processes, or finite elements methods. Know-how with commercial software like VTK, ITK or image reconstruction tools is a plus. Applications from all branches of engineering and applied mathematics are welcome.

The staff appointment, including the University of Illinois benefits, will be initially offered for a year. Initial salary will be commensurate with the qualification of the candidate (app. 33,000 - 38,000 US$). 

To apply:

Please send application including a curriculum vitae and a list of three references to:

Laboratory for Product and Process Design

Att: Mr. Tamilosai Mahalingam

Departments of Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering , M/C 063

851 S. Morgan St., SEO Room 218

Chicago, IL 60607

Tel: (312) 355-2520

Email: tmahal2(at)uic.edu

Homepage: http://vienna.bioengr.uic.edu/