Phd Position In Fast Monte Carlo Simulations For Medical Physics

The medical physics instrumentation group at Instituto de Física Corpuscular ( IFIC ), CSIC - Universidad de Valencia invites applications for a PhD position funded by the JAE-PRE program of CSIC.IFIC is a joint center of the Spanish Research Council ( CSIC ) and the University of Valencia ( UV ) devoted to research in Nuclear, Particle and Astroparticle Physics, both experiment and theory, and applications to Medical Physics and other fields of Science and Technology. We are looking for a PhD student to work on fast Monte Carlo simulations of clinical proton therapy treatments using GPUs and FPGAs. Prior experience in the field is welcome but not required. The position will be located in Valencia (Spain), with possible stays in relevant European proton therapy centers. It will include participation in a PhD program, monthly seminars, paid programming and training courses at CERN and other locations, and attendance to international conferences.Start:around September 2024Duration:3 yearsGross salary:23640.65€ / year (30-hours week).Location:Valencia, SpainTopic:"Real-time Monte Carlo simulations of clinical proton therapy treatments in highly parallel architectures"Requirements:Masters degree (or about to be finished), and Bachelor in Physics, Informatics, Mathematics Biomedical engineering, Computer Science or related disciplines.Fluent understanding and communication in English.Recommended experience / skills:Computer coding (C++, OpenMP, OpenCL, SYCL, CUDA, Python) and parallelism in multi-CPU, GPU and FPGASoftware development (Linux, bash, ssh, CMake, IDEs, git, GitHub/GitLab, Continuous integration)Fast numerical techniques (Monte Carlo, variance reduction) and statistical analysisParticle physics, radiation detectors background (ROOT, Geant4, Penelope, Latex)Medical physics background (Gate, TOPAS, penH, MCsquare, MatRad, 3D Slicer, moqui, RayStation, dcmtk, amide)Please send your application to ******, including:CVAcademic recordCover letter stating your research interestsIf you studied outside Spain: equivalence of academic record grades, obtained using the the official form by the Spanish Ministry of Science(separately for Bachelor and Master).#J-18808-Ljbffr