Research Assistant Mild Traumatic Brain Injury and Concussion - Imperial College London

Vacancy Reference Number

MED01187

Closing Date

16 May 2019

Salary

£34,397 to £37,486 per annum

Address

Medicine/Brain Sciences/Medicine, Imperial College London

Duration

Fixed term until 31 July 2020

We have an exciting opportunity available immediately and running until 31/07/2020, for a graduate level Research Assistant to join our team. The project involves cutting-edge research on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and concussion. You will join Dr Seemungal, (website, Imperial), an expert in vestibular cognition and balance disorders, and his clinical research group and link up with Prof Danilo Mandic, (website, Imperial) an expert in signal analysis in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College. This post is funded by a Racing Foundation grant.

Mild TBI and concussion is a topic of current great interest. This project aims to develop a high-tech approach to diagnosing concussion in acute head injured patients, initially in hospital-based patients and then in the field, in jockeys who fall whilst racing. The project complements an on-going Medical Research Council funded study assessing the brain mechanisms mediating imbalance in acute TBI and a US Military funded project (an international collaboration with the Mayo clinic and University of Rome) on mild TBI.

Your comprehensive research training will include a range of laboratory and data analytical techniques – e.g. eye-movement recording, vestibular and visual psychophysics, neurophysiology, non-invasive brain stimulation, gait analysis and structural and functional brain imaging. During the course of your post, you will gain exposure to acute and chronic neurology, typically pertaining to complex balance and eye movement disorders due to disturbances of central (brainstem to cerebral cortex) and peripheral mechanisms (e.g. inner ear vestibular mechanisms – e.g. ‘BPPV’) in addition to patients with cognitive and behavioural neurological problems and additional training in vestibular function, including vestibular perception.

You will benefit from Prof Mandic’s research expertise in signal processing and micro-electronics. The techniques learnt thus provide cross-discipline applicability and will appeal to those who are both technically-minded and possess an interest in neuroscience. 

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Should you have any queries regarding this position please contact Candy White c.white@imperial.ac.uk or for research enquiries please contact Dr Barry Seemungal; b.seemungal@imperial.ac.uk. 

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Contact Details

Candy White: c.white@imperial.ac.uk
Dr Barry Seemungal: b.seemungal@imperial.ac.uk.