Multiple Postdoc, PhD, and Master's Thesis Positions Available for Advancing Foundation Models in Radiology (funded by ERC)

We are looking for multiple Postdocs, PhD candidates, and Master’s thesis students to join our group at CCIBonn.ai (Division for Computational Radiology & Clinical AI). This is an opportunity to delve into AI-driven translational research funded by European Research Council (ERC) and contribute to significant advancements in the clinical application of foundation models for radiology, encompassing Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing (NLP) algorithms. Our research group has consistently contributed to reputed journals and conferences, including The Lancet Oncology, The Lancet Digital Health, Nature Communications and Radiology among others. We are developing various tools to support our research projects - you can check out our work on our GitHub organizations (OpenRadX and CCIBonn). You can check out our work on our GitHub organizations (OpenRadX and CCIBonn). This is a great opportunity to dive into AI-driven translational research and contribute to significant advancements in the clinical application of Computer Vision or NLP algorithms.

Your Responsibilities

• Conduct state-of-the-art AI research with large-scale medical images, reports and clinical data
• Work closely with clinicians to translate research work into clinical practices
• Publish your work in national and international conferences and journals

Your Qualifications

• PhD (Postdoc), MSc (PhD) in computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or a related fields
• Theoretical and practical experience in deep learning, and machine learning
• Interest in clinical data and working with interdisciplinary teams
• Team player with passion to work in an intercultural environment
• High degree of autonomy and excellent problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills in English
• Important: For Postdoc position, candidates with good communication skills in German (equivalent to B2 at the time of starting) will be given preference.

Your Benefits

• 100% of TVL E-13 with 3 years (for Postdoc, TVL E-14 is possible with supervision work).
• For Master thesis students, a contract as a working student (Hiwi) is possible.
• Access to large-scale multicentric, multimodal (images, reports) datasets
• The division has exclusive access to the latest and powerful computing resource (2x NVIDIA DGX H100 cluster). Each group member is provided with powerful personal workstations (with RTX A6000 GPUs, etc.).
• Access to the latest medical imaging scanners (multiple of the latest 3T MR scanners, a 0.065T Swoop hyperfine scanner and a 7T MR scanner)
• Opportunities to collaborate with other research groups and institutes, such as DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center), DZNE (German research center for Neurodegenerative Diseases), Mathematics Department at the University of Bonn, within EORTC (European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer) and within MICCAI BRATS.
• Opportunities to attend national and international conferences (MICCAI, CVPR,…)
• Potential for being involved in industry (research) collaborations

Starting Date

The Ph.D and Postdoc positions will start from 1st July 2025.

Interested? Contact us

• Please send your application to contact@ccibonn.ai (cc: aditya.rastogi@ukbonn.de), mentioning the role you want to apply for along with your CV and a short cover letter (~ 1 page, about yourself (not included in CV) and your research interest).

• Important: If you are applying for a master thesis position, please also mention in your email information like “when you want to start the thesis work”, “would you be interested in moving to Bonn for your thesis”, “do you want to pursue PhD after your thesis” and “whether you already have a professor in your college to be your co-advisor (if required by your institute)”.