Offer DescriptionProject description: SimOSpine is an innovative digital health technology to prevent mechanical complications in corrective spine surgeries (CSS), the prevalence of which has largely increased in adults with spine deformities in the last five years.
SimOSpine offers quantitative biomechanical assessments of the risk of mechanical failure while avoiding common barriers to patient-specific biomechanical modelling.Tasks to be performed:The research assistant will join an innovation team within the broader objective to push forward SimOSpine from TRL 4 to TRL 6.
Specifically, the position has the following tasks in relation to the project objectives:Participation in relation to the business plan (ACT 1 Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) strategy definition).Responsible (ACT 2 Tech transfer training and business plan).Participation as a founder member (ACT 3 Funding, team complementation and company creation).Responsible for the customer discovery part (ACT 4 Validation of technological development and customer discovery).Participation in the strategy and definition of requirements (ACT 5 Clinical decision-support software regulatory roadmap implementation).Group and complement: Group 3 + Level UDedication and working hours: Part time (30h/week).Planned remuneration approx: 24.579,66 € gross per yearLine of research: Research line of the Research Group SIMBIOSys.Financing fund: Projecte PRCAT01624 - 2024 PROD 00114 NOAILLY, JÉRÔME BERNARD, "SPINE SURGERY PROGNOSIS SOFTWARE (SimOSpine)", finançat per AGÈNCIA GESTIÓ AJUTS UNIVERSITARIS I RECERCA (AGAUR), projecte que finalitza el 01/06/2026.RequirementsResearch Field: Engineering » Biomedical engineeringEducation Level: UndergraduateSpecific Requirements:- High school-FP2.The expected start date is February 1st 2025, the job is in Barcelona.Selection criteria: The selection of the candidates will be made through evaluation of the curriculum and, where appropriate, with the carrying out a test and/or interview.
Valuation will be as follows:Academic Training (0-50 points): Biomedical engineering degree.
Performance in the required studies and, especially, alignment of the topic of the final bachelor's thesis with the tasks of the project (technology transfer and innovation).Other professional training and experience, adequacy to the proposed profile (0-40 points): Formal additional training in entrepreneurship.
Demonstrable hands-on experience in the research domain (adult spine surgery).Other merits (0-10 points): Communication skills (English and Spanish).The minimum score to pass the selection process is 70 points.
The candidate with the highest score in the selection process will be offered the job.Work Location:Company/Institute: Universitat Pompeu Fabra - ETICCountry: SpainCity: BarcelonaPostal Code: 08018Street: Roc Boronat 138E-Mail: ******, ******#J-18808-Ljbffr