PostDoc position in computational cardiac eletro-mechanics at University of Milan

[Simone Scacchi]

The group of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, University of Milan, 

invites applications for a PostDoc position (12 months) in the area of computational mathematics, 

with deadline June 10, 2020 at 11:59 PM (Rome time):

https://www.unimi.it/it/ricerca/ricerca-lastatale/fare-ricerca-da-noi/assegni-e-borse/bandi-assegni-di-ricerca/bando-di-tipo-b-prof-scacchi-id-4585

The position is in the framework of the PRIN 2017 project 

"Modeling the heart across the scales: from cardiac cells to the whole organ"

coordinated by Alfio Quarteroni.

Objectives of research activity: 

- Development of Domain Decomposition (DD) preconditioners for cardiac electro-mechanical coupling models;

- Implementation of DD preconditioners in a deal.II-based parallel code;

- Generation of patient specific cardiac computational meshes from MRI data;

- Numerical simulation of the cardiac electrical and mechanical activity on realistic ventricular geometries.

Competences:

- Mathematical modeling; 

- Numerical analysis and scientific computing;

- Numerical methods for partial differential equations;

- Parallel programming in C++. 

With best regards,

           Simone Scacchi