<div dir="ltr">Hello, We propose a PhD position in the context of cancer treatment with light ion beams (hadrontherapy). In the framework of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network <a href="http://partner.web.cern.ch/partner/Welcome.html">PARTNER</a>, funded by the EU, <a href="http://www.iba.be/">IBA</a> and <a href="http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/">CREATIS</a> will host for a three-year period an early stage researcher. He/she will be offered to participate in active training and to prepare a PhD thesis, while being considered as a full member of the IBA particle therapy research team in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). The academic supervision of the PhD will be carried out by a multi-disciplinary collaboration between CREATIS, <a href="http://oncora1.lyon.fnclcc.fr/">CLB</a> and CNDRI, currently working on the simulation tools and methodology required for future treatment planning. The aim of the thesis is to design Monte Carlo simulations for computing dose distributions from proton/carbon irradiation inside a patient and to compare them to the dose distributions obtained with a commercially-available treatment planning system (TPS). Special attention will be paid to target heterogeneity and physical properties of particle-matter interactions, especially for carbon ions, in order to provide the information needed to compute the biological dose. More details (how to apply...) can be found in the pdf document. Sincerly, David Sarrut -- David Sarrut, Phd Chercheur Centre de lutte contre le cancer Léon Bérard 28 rue Laënnec, 69373 Lyon cedex 08 Laboratoire CREATIS-LRMN UMR CNRS 5220, Inserm U 630 Tel : 04 78 78 51 51 / 06 74 34 59 27 <a href="http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/rio">http://www.creatis.insa-lyon.fr/rio</a> ______________________________________________ "2 + 2 = 5, for extremely large values of 2" ______________________________________________ </div>