Postdoc multimodal cardiovascular AI research

Postdoc multimodal cardiovascular AI research at Amsterdam UMC

Are you an ambitious and experienced researcher with expertise in artificial intelligence and an interest in cardiovascular medicine? Excited to develop novel multimodal AI approaches combining medical imaging, clinical data, and genomics for improved cardiac diagnostics? Apply now!

The project

In this postdoctoral project, you will develop innovative multimodal AI frameworks to integrate diverse cardiovascular data sources. Your research will focus on combining imaging data (e.g., cardiac MRI, echocardiography), signals (e.g. electrocardiography, intracardiac signals), clinical measurements, molecular and genomic profiles to improve diagnostic accuracy and patient stratification in cardiovascular diseases. You will work on synthetic data generation techniques to improve multi-centre training while maintaining privacy, and develop methods to optimize cross-modal representations for enhanced predictive modeling.

About your role

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will:

• Design and implement novel multimodal AI architectures for cardiovascular applications;
• Develop synthetic data generation methods to augment sparse modalities;
• Create frameworks for joint optimization of cross-modal representations;
• Validate models using clinical datasets in collaboration with cardiologists;
• Mentor PhD and MSc students and present findings at international conferences;
• Intention to apply for grants to expand our group, and potentially start your own research group.

About you

• You have a PhD in Computer Science, AI/ML, Biomedical Engineering, or related field;
• You demonstrate strong programming skills in Python and have experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch;
• You have experience in medical image analysis (multimodal learning experience is a plus);
• You have a publication track record in top AI/ML or medical informatics venues such as NeurIPS, MICCAI, or SPIE Medical Imaging;
• Experience with clinical healthcare data systems is a plus.

Our offer

• A flying start to your career in scientific research;
• Plenty of room for your drive to shape tomorrow's healthcare;
• Working on large-scale and in-house research, with motivated colleagues from all over the world;
• You will be employed by Amsterdam UMC Research BV. The Guideline PhD contract applies to this vacancy;
• A contract for 12 months;
• Salary scale 10: € 3.493 to € 5.504 gross based on full-time employment (depending on education and experience) and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.
• Holiday hours: 190,4 per year for fulltime and a possibility to save additional hours;
• Pension accrual with BeFrank, a modern, comprehensible and fairly priced pension;
• For >7 km each way, 100% reimbursement for public transport travel costs and, for private transport, €0.18 per km up to a maximum of 40 km each way;
• Do you prefer walking or cycling? Take advantage of our good bike scheme. Moreover, you will receive a reimbursement of €0.18 per km.

About your workplace

You will collaborate with doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers, analysts, and clinical researchers conducting patient studies. We encourage active participation in the design and execution of ongoing research projects, with ample room for your own initiatives. Amsterdam UMC offers a position within an enthusiastic team where you can contribute to cutting-edge research in vascular medicine.

You will work in Dr Sean Benson at the Amsterdam Centre for Computational Cardiology Department of Cardiology and Dr Fleur Tjong’s group at Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. Our department is highly interdisciplinary with informatics researchers working closely together with practicing cardiologists to advance the use of AI for personalised treatment. The ultimate goal is to be able to accurately predict and simulate the effect of the best possible treatment for a patient. We foster an open culture with generally accessible collaboration. Moreover, we strive for equal opportunities for everyone, meaning there is space for each individual's culture, background, ideas, and creativity. In our excellent network with top-tier AI-research groups (e.g. from ETH Zurich, Stanford, Heidelberg, University of Barcelona, Yale, University of Amsterdam), there are many opportunities for International collaborations.

Amsterdam UMC Research BV supports non-profit scientific research. In doing so, we provide researchers with everything they need to excel. Our principal investigators (PIs) and project leaders offer support in the field of project management, finance and human resources. In medical scientific research projects, legal support is also provided.

Amsterdam UMC has an open culture. This means that we hope that everyone feels welcome in our organization and that we strive to offer equal opportunities to everyone. We therefore cordially invite all interested parties to respond to this vacancy.

During the publication period, applications will be handled continuously. If the vacancy is filled, it will be closed prematurely.

If you have any questions about this position, please feel free to contact Dr Sean Benson, via s.h.benson@amsterdamumc.nl or Dr Fleur Tjong, via f.v.tjong@amsterdamumc.nl.

A reference check, screening and hiring test may be part of the procedure. If you join us, we ask you for a VOG (Certificate of Good Conduct).

Internal candidates will be given priority over external candidates in case of equal suitability.