Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Melbourne School of Engineering

Salary:  Level B $73,863 - $87,710 p.a. or Level C $90,480 - $104,329 p.a. plus employer superannuation contributions of 9% 

Level of appointment is subject to qualifications and experience.

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) is a partnership of world-leading Australian researchers collaborating to develop an advanced retinal prosthesis, or bionic eye, to restore the sense of vision to people with degenerative or inherited retinal disease.  The BVA joint partnership brings together the necessary capabilities and expertise to develop the bionic eye, including world leading experts in the fields of ophthalmology, bio-engineering, material biocompatibility, vision science, and wireless integrated circuit design. The members include The University of Melbourne, The University of New South Wales (UNSW), The Bionic Ear Institute (BEI), Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) and National ICT Australia (NICTA).

We are seeking people for a number of positions is in the Stimulation Strategy Development Program. The goal of this research program is to develop new electrical stimulation algorithms for transforming the visual input into patterns of electrical stimulation on the electrodes in the implanted electrode array in a way analogous to that used in cochlear implant processing algorithms. Computational models will be used to develop efficacious stimulation parameters required to create and control excitation patterns in retinal ganglion cells and the visual cortex. These studies enable us to investigate relatively quickly aspects of neural stimulation that are difficult or impossible to investigate experimentally.

The positions are:

Job No. 0023805 - a postdoctoral position in the development of signal processing strategies for a high-resolution retinal prosthesis;

Job No. 0023796 - a postdoctoral position in the development of a 3-dimensional finite-element (FE) model of the eye that will be used to model the response of the retina to electrical stimulation;

Job No. 0023804 - a position in programming and building computational models of electrical stimulation of the retina and  electrical stimulation algorithms

The positions are open to both national and international applicants.  The positions will commence in 2010 for a period of 1 to 3 years. 

Close date:  7 Jun 2010

Position Description & Selection Criteria

 0023805_EA.pdf