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Philips Clinical Scientist MR - Fixed Term years 
Sweden 
72634227

24.06.2024
Clinical Scientist MR - Fixed Term ( 2,5 years )
Job Description

An exciting opportunity awaits you: 0.5FTE based at a cutting-edge magnetic resonance (MR) research facility in Lund, Sweden, and 0.5FTE supporting Clinical Science activity across the Nordic countries. You will be working as part of a team of Philips clinical scientists based throughout Europe.

You are responsible for

Local customer support

  • Management of research collaborations with Philips at the Lund University Bioimaging Centre (LBIC) which is an infrastructure within the Medical Faculty at Lund University: identifying and supporting projects of mutual value to customers and Philips; liaising when necessary with legal teams for research agreement administration; providing scientific leadership in MR with an emphasis on 7T (but also 3T and 1.5T applications as part of the wider Philips Clinical Science team in Europe); managing customer expectations; harvesting knowledge to benefit Philips; liaising between local sites and international luminary networks.
  • Doing the same at other Nordics sites
  • Interacting with Clinical Scientists, academics and clinical staff to provide first-line support for research related questions on customer sites, and signpost within Philips for further queries.
  • Contributing to academic papers by actively participating in customer research projects on site. You will be involved in projects ranging from MR methods development to neuroscience studies and clinical research.
  • Developing and maintaining relationships with Key Opinion Leaders and represent their perspectives within Philips.

Local Philips organisation support

  • Maintaining knowledge of roadmap and research developments, both within and external to Philips in order to support the Sales process, and assist with technical demonstrations and customer visits.
  • Assisting in delivery of clinical training programs. E.g.: support of Applications training; technical presentation for User Group meetings; vendor portfolio presentation at scientific meetings.
  • Assisting in local trouble shooting – liaising with Engineering/Applications.
  • Communicating to wider Philips Precision Diagnosis team members the value that Philips MR Clinical Science working with customers brings to the business.

Your competencies

  • Be able to run Philips’ MR scanners independently, performing scans.
  • Capacity to program for research applications: pulse sequences, image reconstruction, post-processing analysis.
  • Maintaining in-depth knowledge of Philips MR technology through in-person attendance to Philips internal Clinical Science meetings, and other interactions with scientists within Philips.
  • Maintaining up to date knowledge of innovations in MR, through conference attendance (e.g. ISMRM) and discussion with key research leaders.

Your worldwide Clinical Science impact

  • Transferring knowledge about customer clinical needs and conclusions of customer research to Philips, ensuring impact for Philips by motivating appropriate action.
  • Providing clinical/technical feedback to the MR Business Unit in Best, NL.
  • Offering strategic leadership in areas of expertise to the MR Business Unit product development and clinical science teams.
  • Representing Philips at conferences and professional bodies, and establishing a global network of contacts in the scientific MR community.


To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills / experience / qualities

  • Degree in Physics, Biomedical Engineering or similar
  • PhD in magnetic resonance or related topic
  • Minimum three years of experience working in MR
  • Programming experience is preferable
  • Curious and passionate about Magnetic Resonance
  • Interested in working in the medical environment
  • Available to travel nationally and abroad
  • Enthusiasm to work in a team
  • Fluent in English, spoken and written; Swedish and Finnish is a plus