PhD Position (f / m / d) – Computer Vision-Assisted Movement Analysis and Brain Mapping

The department of Neurology of the University Hospital Ulm (Directors : Prof. Dr. K.G. Häusler and Prof. Dr. J. Weishaupt) is instantly looking for a

PhD Position (f / m / d) – Computer Vision-Assisted Movement Analysis and Brain Mapping

in the Precision Movement Analysis and Brain Mapping Group (Principal Investigator : Dr. Maximilian U. Friedrich, MD).

The University Hospital Ulm with its employees (f / m / d) stands for a modern patient care with high quality, top research and medical teaching oriented towards the future as well as training in attractive professional fields.The prerequisites for this are qualified and committed employee.

The PhD project focuses on the quantitative analysis of neurological movement and balance disorders using computer vision–based motion analysis and the integration of these behavioral measures with multimodal neuroimaging (structural MRI, diffusion MRI, connectomics). The overarching aim is to develop and validate digital biomarkers of neurological health and to relate these to distributed brain networks in well-characterized clinical cohorts (e.g. stroke, movement and balance disorders).

Your tasks :

• Development of sustainable marker less movement analysis pipelines and toolkits using computer vision methods (e. g. pose tracking, vision transformers, mesh models)
• Extraction and validation of quantitative movement features from clinical video data, including time-series analysis and quality control in real-world clinical contexts
• Integration of movement parameters with multimodal MRI data (e. g. lesions, atrophy foci, brain stimulation volumes, connectivity metrics)
• Statistical voxel- and network-based analysis of brain–behavior relationships
• Contribution to scientific publications and conference presentations

We offer :

Your profile :

Contract : limited

Level of employment : part-time

application deadline : 31.01.2025

Please submit your application including CV, a 1-2 page research statement (explicitly building on the applicant’s own prior work and describing how this work would be extended or generalized in the context of the position), and academic transcripts to :

maximilian.friedrich@uni-ulm

Contact :

Dr. Maximilian U. Friedrich

University Hospital Ulm

Department of Neurology

Oberer Eselsberg 45

89081 Ulm

Employment takes place through the administration department of the University Medical Center Ulm, which acts in the aim and on behalf of the Federal State of Baden-Württemberg. Handicapped people with equal qualifications will be employed preferentially. The University Medical Center Ulm aims to increase the proportion of women and therefore encourages qualified female to submit their application.