MR Scientist for 7T

MR Scientist for Terra.X 7T in Stockholm, Sweden at Siemens Healthineers

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Employment: 2 years temporary full-time employment.

Siemens Healthineers is shaping the future of healthcare. As a leading medical technology company, we increase value by empowering care providers around the world on their journey towards expanding precision medicine, transforming care delivery, improving the patient experience, and digitalizing healthcare. Do you want to be a part of shaping the future of healthcare?

Come and join our global team as MR Scientist to our team based in Stockholm.

Background
Siemens Healthineers is looking for an on-site Magnetic Resonance (MR) clinical scientist to facilitate collaborative research between Siemens Healthineers and Karolinska in the field of Ultra-High Field (7T) MR. The MAGNETOM Terra.X is a CE-labeled clinical, state of the art 7T scanner with high gradient performance and parallel transmission and will be used clinically as well as for clinical and basic research. The 7T MR system will be localized Karolinska University Hospital in Huddinge in the southern parts of Stockholm, Sweden.

Karolinska University Hospital consistently ranks as one of the top 10 hospitals in the World and is one of the largest hospitals in Northern Europe. Karolinska’s vision is to cure and relieve tomorrow what no one can cure and relieve today. Innovation, and bringing new technologies to bedside, is a corner stone of achieving that. Karolinska University Hospital partners with the renowned Karolinska Institute, which is consistently ranked amongst the World's best medical universities and is the seat of the Nobel Assembly that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

The 7T facility at Karolinska is primarily aimed at meeting the needs of patients with the vast majority of its bandwidth dedicated towards clinical use and clinical research. The facility will be a resource to patients from near and afar with the purpose of delivering next-generation clinical imaging to practice. The facility will also provide access for neuroscience researchers through the Karolinska Institute’s MRI Center Core Facility. In total, Karolinska University Hospital and the Karolinska Institute has 27 human MRI scanners, including a PET-MRI system and scanners dedicated to research. The facility in Huddinge includes several other MR scanners used for clinical research, including a MAGNETOM PrismaFit, two MAGNETOM Vida and a MAGNETOM Skyra optimized for interventional procedures.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to become the interface between neuroradiologists, clinical researchers, hospital physicists, basic scientists, and Siemens Healthineers. A substantial proportion of your time would be devoted to support clinical translations of new techniques and research projects involving the ultra-high field 7T MR scanner as well as scientific support to Karolinska, one of our luminary high-end research partners in Scandinavia.

Your tasks and responsibilities:

·       Support Karolinska in fulfilling their clinical and research goals on the 7T MAGNETOM Terra.X platform

·       Assist and follow-up research collaboration projects with Karolinska on behalf of Siemens Healthineers

·       Develop a strong relationship between Karolinska and the MR development team in Siemens Healthineers MR both locally and with Headquarters in Erlangen, Germany