Connectionists: Post Doc Position for Development of PET Imaging Reconstruction Software

[INCF - Elli Chatzopoulou]

*Stockholm Brain Institute* offers state-of-the-art facilities for PET 
imaging with the High Resolution Research Tomograph (HRRT) scanner and 
state-of-the-art analysis possibilities with its IBM Blue Gene 
supercomputer located at PDC, KTH. This two year full-time position will 
develop advanced analysis tools to enhance the accuracy of 
quantification and to optimize the temporal resolution of brain PET 
studies. The implementation of such tools will be achieved through the 
use of parallel programming on the Blue Gene in collaboration with IBM.

*Qualification*
Candidates should have a background in computer science or a closely 
related field and have experience with high-performance parallel 
computing, PET reconstruction techniques, and image analytics. 
Candidates interested in disseminating high-performance computing 
techniques to other users within SBI will be preferred.

*Employment*
Form of employment: Two year temporary position.
Start date: According to agreement

KTH aims to employ a diversity of talent and thus welcomes applicants 
who will add to the variety of the University, especially as concerns 
its gender structure.

*About us*:
KTH is the largest technical university in Sweden. At KTH education and 
research cover a broad spectrum within natural sciences and engineering, 
as well as architecture, industrial engineering and management, urban 
planning, work science and environmental engineering. There are circa 
12,000 full-year undergraduate students, 1,400 postgraduate students and 
3,100 employees.

CSC is one of Sweden’s most advanced and successful research and 
education institutions in Information Technology. We work with education 
and research in Numerical Analysis, Computer Science, Media Technology, 
Human-Computer Interaction, Speech Technology, Music Acoustics and 
Languages at KTH and at Stockholm University (SU). For more information 
see http://www.csc.kth.se <http://www.csc.kth.se/>

PDC is a major Swedish high-performance computing center located at CSC. 
PDC is also one of the members of Stockholm Brain Institute (SBI) a new 
brain research institute formed jointly between Karolinska institutet, 
KTH, and Stockholm University in the area of cognitive and computational 
neuroscience.

For more information please note our web-pages:
about KTH: www.kth.se <http://www.kth.se/>
about PDC: www.pdc.kth.se <http://www.pdc.kth.se/>
and about SBI: www.stockholmbrain.se <http://www.stockholmbrain.se>

*Application*
The application -including CV and two letters of recommendations- should 
be sent via ordinary post to:

KTH, CSC
Att: Susanne Bergman
100 44 Stockholm, Sweden

Applications via email to: susanneb at csc.kth.se <mailto:susanneb at csc.kth.se>

Deadline for applications: 2008-08-25
Quote the following reference number: D-2008-0267.

*More information*
Please contact:
Gert Svensson, PDC; KTH Phone: +46 8 790 78 84
* gert at pdc.kth.se <mailto:cmarxt at kth.se>

or Andrea Varrone, KI, Phone: +46 8 517 750 43.
* andrea.varrone at ki.se <mailto:andrea.varrone at ki.se>