The Collaborative Research Center “Wave phenomena – analysis and numerics” (CRC 1173), is currently seeking to recruit, as soon as possible, limited to three years, a
Doctoral Researcher (f/m/d)
Project B7 “Dynamics of electrical depolarization waves in the heart”
The CRC has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2015. Its goal is to analytically understand, numerically simulate, and eventually manipulate wave propagation under realistic scenarios by intertwining analysis and numerics.

Project B7 “Dynamics of electrical depolarization waves in the heart” (www.waves.kit.edu/B7) aims at modeling, characterizing, and numerically approximating depolarization wave patterns in the human heart. Furthermore, we will construct and apply a reentrant reaction eikonal scheme for the simulation of chaotic fibrillatory waves, and evaluate its accuracy by comparison with simulations performed with the full model. Moreover, we will identify model parameters in a patient-specific manner and apply the developed methods in an optimal control problem to pave the way for the clinical adoption of painless overdrive pacing against atrial fibrillation.

We seek an ambitious doctoral researcher with a strong interest both in theoretical and practical aspects of cardiac electrophysiology. Your work will focus on numerical characterization of the reentrant reaction eikonal scheme for precise computation of activation times in the openCARP electrophysiology simulator as well as on the identification of the spatial distribution of clinically relevant cardiac tissue parameters through physics-informed neural networks. You will have the opportunity to attend conferences, workshops, and summer schools. Engagement in teaching is encouraged. In close collaboration with the partners at KIT’s Institute for Applied and Numerical Mathematics, you will drive interdisciplinary research at the interface between biomedical engineering and mathematics.
For further information please see: https://www.waves.kit.edu/joboffers.php