Job Description

Ref Number

B04-06187

Professional Expertise

Research and Research Support

Department

UCL BEAMS (B04)

Location

London

Working Pattern

Full time

Salary

43,374 51,860

Contract Type

Fixed-term

Working Type

On site

Available for Secondment

No

Closing Date

08-Jul-2025

About us

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UCL is a multi-disciplinary university with a population of over 13,000 staff and 42,000 students from 150 different countries. Degree programmes are provided in Arts and Humanities, Built Environment, Brain Sciences, Engineering Sciences, Education, Laws, Life Sciences, Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Population Health Sciences and Social and Historical Sciences.



For more information, please visit http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about





UCL Mechanical Engineering:



UCL Mechanical Engineering has been pioneering the development of engineering education, having taught the core discipline for over 165 years. UCL was home to the UK's first ever Professor of the Mechanical Principles of Engineering, Eaton Hodgkinson, in 1847. It was also where Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy introduced organized laboratory practicals in university education training; a world-leading educational innovation at the time.

About the role

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Would you like to help to unravel the multi-scale mechanisms driving the flow and biomechanics of human organs based on the world's newest and highest resolution ex vivo bioimaging data of intact human organs? A Research Fellow position is available to join the team doing this, with your post having a focus on performing in situ image-based modelling. This will provide insights into physiological mechanisms such as the expansion and contraction of blood vessels and airways, the effect of local tissue property change (e.g. osteoarthritis), helping understand heart and lung disease.



You will be based at UCL Mechanical Engineering, developing and applying image-based modelling strategies to Hierarchical Phase-Contrast Tomography data (HiP-CT, see mecheng.ucl.ac.uk/HiP-CT). You will also travel regularly to the European Synchrotron (Grenoble) helping perform in situ experiments using HiP-CT.



This post is funded for 2 years in the first instance, with the possibility of renewal.



A job description and person specification can be accessed at the bottom of this page. If you wish to discuss the post informally, please contact Peter Lee (peter.lee@ucl.ac.uk), or for application process queries Ruikang Xue (ruikang.xue@ucl.ac.uk).

About you

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The post will require a motivated researcher with experience in image-based modelling of flow or biomechanics, from segmenting the images to performing CFD/FEM analysis. You will have a PhD and extensive knowledge and expertise in a relevant field. It is desirable to have experience in handling large data. Your expertise should be at a level appropriate for the conduct of research and publishing new knowledge in leading international research journals. The post-holder will need to show a high level of initiative and an ability to work collaboratively and independently. Applicants should have good team-working skills and a strong command of English.





You will join a dynamic international multidisciplinary group of academics, clinicians, beamline scientists, post-docs and PhD students developing and applying synchrotron X-ray and other techniques to study biological systems. You will report to Profs Peter Lee and Ryo Torii at UCL.

What we offer

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For information about our rewards and benefits please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.



We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian, and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people and LGBTQI+ people.