Organisation / Company: CNRS Laboratory IRPHE UMR7342
Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
IRPHE is a research institute of Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, and École Centrale Méditerranée. Its research is mainly fundamental and concerns fluid mechanics and condensed matter physics. Research projects typically involve combined experimental, numerical and theoretical studies of complex systems where turbulence, stability and nonlinear effects play a role in their self-organisation, dynamics or structuration. Applications of its research concern many fields ranging from industrial flows and processes to health and biological systems, geophysical and astrophysical flows, and the environment.
IRPHE would welcome applications from excellent researchers within its axis "Living organisms, Biological Systems" .
Research projects in our group focus on modelling and understanding the behavior and functioning of different biological systems. The systems studied are varied, ranging from micro-organisms to human biological tissues and organs, crustaceans, fish, birds, trees, and algae. The study of these complex systems, which are sometimes evolving, requires, in most cases, the implementation of multi-physical models and multi-modal experiments on a wide range of spatial scales (from micro to macroscopic) and temporal scales (from microseconds to years). Approaches are simultaneously theoretical, experimental, and numerical, and in constant confrontation with the reality of the studied systems. One of the distinctive features of projects under the "Living organisms, Biological Systems" group is their intrinsically interdisciplinary nature. As such, they are part of a modern vision of research, with no disciplinary barriers; in addition to engineering sciences, fields of biology (human, animal, plant), clinical (medical imaging, diagnosis, therapy), mathematics (statistics, deep learning), and information science (robotics) are involved. The questions raised are fundamental, the methodologies implemented original and innovative, and some works carried out contribute to meeting tomorrow's technological and societal challenges in bioengineering.
Project Descriptions:
Lymphatic System: This project aims at developing experimental and numerical models of the lymphatic system in order to better understand lymph flow. It will focus on studying how a network of lymphatic channels reacts to the sudden malfunction of some channels localized in one specific region.
Pollution and Human Health: This project studies the real importance of air pollution in some large Mediterranean cities and its impact on local urban populations, gathering researchers using state of the air quality numerical models, medical doctors, and air quality monitoring networks.
Prediction of Vascular Diseases Evolution: This project aims to identify new morpho-elasto-hemodynamical markers predictive at an early stage of adverse developments in aortic dissection, combining biomechanical modelling, quantitative medical imaging, and deep learning approaches.
Biological Porous Media Model: This project focuses on the characterization of thrombus as a predictive marker of the evolution of vascular pathology, utilizing imaging, mechanical tests, and fluid diffusion studies.
Keywords: Lymphatic system, Pollution and human health, Prediction of vascular diseases evolution, Biological porous media model
Eligibility Criteria:
Applicants must have defended their doctoral thesis and addressed any corrections required by their examiners before the MSCA-PF application deadline (13 September 2023). Furthermore, their doctoral degree must have been awarded no more than eight years before that deadline. The applicant can be of any nationality and must not have spent more than 12 months in France during the three years immediately prior to 13 September 2023.
Please send your CV, a cover letter explaining why you wish to apply for an MSCA-PF at IRPHE, and your research topic proposal as attachments to ****** by 25 July 2023 .
CNRS Support for Your MSCA Application: The selected candidate(s) will develop a project proposal (10 pages) with the support of a supervisor from the IRPHE Research Unit, as well as from the French National Centre of Research Delegation in Marseille for the administrative and budgetary set-up.
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