Research Fellow (109816-1024)

This is a full time (36.5hrs/week) fixed-term contract for up to 12 months, finishing 28th February 2026, with possible extension.

This is an exciting opportunity to join The Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Systems Medicine (ICSM) group within the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick. Our research group designs and develops pathophysiological models of human organ systems, with the aim of addressing issues of impact in critical illness and medical crisis scenarios.

We are seeking to appoint a Research Fellow for the EPSRC project named 'Combining Mechanistic Modelling with Machine Learning for Diagnosis of ARDS' led by Principal Investigators Dr Sina Saffaran and Prof Declan Bates.

This project will combine large-scale electronic patient data, artificial intelligence algorithms, and mechanistic mathematical models, to develop systems that can improve the diagnosis, and hence treatment, of critically ill patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

The key idea is to use mechanistic virtual patient models as "filters" to extract relevant medical information on individual patients, significantly reducing biases introduced by machine learning on heterogeneous datasets, and allowing improved discovery of patient cohorts driven exclusively by medical conditions.

The research fellow and principal investigators will undertake multiple research trips to Aachen, Germany, to develop and apply new predictive models with the project partner, Prof Andreas Schuppert at Aachen University.