JOB DESCRIPTION

Wearable medical monitoring solutions are needed to manage the increasing financial burden of healthcare for Europe’s aging population. Current wearable devices are limited to measuring surface-level parameters like electrical potentials, temperature, color, and sweat. Wearable ultrasound, in turn, could enable safe, non-invasive monitoring of deep internal body processes, enhancing accuracy and clinical utility.
The EU project “SonoSkin” is aimed at developing an affordable and scalable wearable ultrasound technology for continuous monitoring of critical body functions both in hospital and home settings. The project involves the development of open-access platform technologies using MEMS ultrasound technology in combination with edge AI to manufacture wearable devices (patches) that can monitor processes deep inside the body.
We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join our team and contribute to the development of wearable ultrasound technology for lung monitoring of ventilated patients.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• A master’s degree (or an equivalent university degree) in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Physics or comparable
• Affinity with ultrasound, or a comparable domain
• Experience with signal processing, programming, imaging physics, imaging system design/hardware
• A research-oriented attitude
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team and interested in collaborating with industrial partners
• Motivated to develop your teaching skills and coach students
• Fluent in spoken and written English (C1 level)
• Good presentation skills required to present your work for a scientific audience

ABOUT US

Eindhoven University of Technology is an internationally top-ranking university in the Netherlands that combines scientific curiosity with a hands-on attitude. Our spirit of collaboration translates into an open culture and a top-five position in collaborating with advanced industries. Fundamental knowledge enables us to design solutions for the highly complex problems of today and tomorrow.
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• Conducting an initial exploration study with a clinical ultrasound scanner
• Developing acquisition schemes tailored to wearable ultrasound
• Ultrasound signal processing and (AI based) feature extraction relevant to lung monitoring
• Experimental validation of the final wearable ultrasound monitoring prototype
  The position will be based at the Photoacoustics & Ultrasound Lab Eindhoven (PULS/e) in the Department of Biomedical Engineering under the supervision of dr. ir. H.-M. Schwab and prof. dr. ir. R.G.P. Lopata. The PULS/e group consists of a multi-disciplinary and international team of researchers that work on novel imaging US techniques, photoacoustics, image reconstruction, functional imaging, and model-based image analysis. Within this project you will be closely collaborating with industrial project partners, such as Demcon Macawi and Xiver. Next to the research described above, you will supervise MSc / BSc students that will work on projects within the scope of your own.