<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><b style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;">Starting date:</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; color: red;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><font color="#000000">Autumn</font></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> 2024</span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;"><br></span></div><div><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-align: justify; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;"><font color="#000000"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box;"><font face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">Keywords:</font></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></font><span lang="EN-GB" style="background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eye movements, visuomotor control, binocular vision, surgical performance</span></span></div><div><br></div><div>The MediCIS team at University of Rennes, France, is opening two positions for a PhD student and a post-doc in the intersection of vision science and surgical data science. <font color="#000000"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Basic science research on oculomotricity, motricity, pupillometry, postural stability, and eye-hand coordination will be applied to assist surgery and surgical training. </span></font><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">New and exciting questions and ideas will be directly tested and applied to </span><font color="#000000">VR, <b>physical surgical simulators</b> or <b>robotic systems</b>, before to be potentially deployed to the operating room. </font>Our goal is to use these vision science tools to improve the perceptual, cognitive, and visuomotor skills of the surgeons of the future. </div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Clinicians </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">(surgeons and professors of surgery) in different medical specialties </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">make up half of our research team. Our lab</span> is equipped with a research-grade surgical robot as well as VR-based and physical surgical simulators. <span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It is also well equipped with eye trackers (VR and non VR), EEG, ECG, IMU devices as well as dedicated servers for computational modelling and deep learning.</span> The lab is located in the Medical Science Campus adjacent to the Rennes University Hospital Centre equipped with several imaging modalities and surgical robots.</div><div> </div><div>Over the past years, the team has lead the way in surgical data science with important publications in this emerging field (Nature Biomed. Eng., Medical Image Analysis etc.<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">see </span><a href="https://medicis.univ-rennes1.fr/">publication records</a>). </div><div><br></div><div>Rennes is a vibrant university city 90 min away from Paris by train, and is often ranked as the best city to live in France, if not <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information-sources/maps/quality-of-life_en">Europe</a> (2020).</div><div>More about Rennes <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-in-rennes-and-st-malo-france.html">here</a> and its University <a href="https://www.univ-rennes.fr/en/welcome-university-rennes">here</a>, or <a href="https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/studying-abroad/5-reasons-study-rennes-france">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Applicants are invited to contact me directly with a CV and a cover letter.</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#7e7e7e">--</font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#7e7e7e"><b>Associate Prof. Dr.-Ing. Josselin Gautier</b></font></span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#7e7e7e"><b>MediCIS team, LTSI Inserm,</b></font></span></div><font color="#7e7e7e" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Faculté de Médecine, </span><span style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Université de Rennes - Campus de Villejean</span></b></font><div><font color="#7e7e7e" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>35043 Rennes, France</b></font></div><div><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#7e7e7e"><b>Tel. +33(0)2 23 23 69 30</b></font></span></div></div></body></html>