Postdoctoral position at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Thursday 26th March 2026

Email address onur.afacan@childrens.harvard.edu
Contact Email for the Job Positing onur.afacan@childrens.harvard.edu
Organization Harvard Medical School
Location Boston, MA USA
Title Postdoctoral position at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
URL https://labs.childrenshospital.org/onurafacan
Closing date May 15, 2026
Description Position description: We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our research team at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The fellow will work on NIH-funded projects involving MRI reconstruction, motion correction, quantitative MRI, and machine learning for medical imaging. The work includes algorithm development, image reconstruction, analysis of large clinical imaging datasets, and collaboration with radiologists, MR physicists, and engineers, with opportunities to contribute to publications and grant proposals. The postdoctoral fellow will work in a highly collaborative environment with radiologists, MR physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, and will contribute to method development, publications, and grant proposals.
About Us: Boston Children’s Hospital is the #1 ranked pediatric hospital in the United States and is a major teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School. The research environment includes close collaboration with clinicians, physicists, and engineers and provides access to:
• State-of-the-art MRI scanners
• Large clinical imaging datasets
• High-performance computing clusters and GPUs
• Collaborations across Harvard, MIT, Mass General Hospital, and other Boston-area institutions
• Opportunities for clinical translation and multidisciplinary research
The fellow will be encouraged to present work at major conferences such as ISMRM and MICCAI, and will receive mentorship in paper writing, grant writing, and career development.
Minimum requirements:
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, Medical Physics, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
• Research experience in medical imaging, MRI, image reconstruction, or machine learning
• Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or MATLAB
• Strong publication record and scientific writing skills
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in one or more of the following areas is highly desirable:
• MRI reconstruction
• Motion correction
• Quantitative MRI
• Diffusion MRI
• Deep learning / machine learning for imaging
• Image processing or computer vision
To apply: Please send your CV along with a copy of a technical paper, the desired start date, a paragraph including statement of goals and two references to Dr. Onur Afacan (onur.afacan@childrens.harvard.edu).