A fully funded four-year PhD project to develop a High Intensity Focused Ultrasound system and treatment planning technique
Position:
Institution: University College Dublin
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Application closes at: Feb 13th, 2026 17:00
URL: https://www.ucd.ie/cphm/newsevents/newsheadlines/highintensityfocusedutrasound/
Applications are invited for a fully-funded four year PhD project in High Intensity Focused Ultrasound at University College Dublin.
The successful applicant will work on a project to develop a novel personalised targeted treatment planning technique for HIFU therapy for cancer. The project will involve 4 work packages.
1. Development of an acoustic dataset from clinical images.
2. Development of a HIFU simulation & treatment planning technique.
3. Development of an experimental HIFU system at UCD.
4. Validation of the treatment planning technique using an experimental HIFU system and phantom test objects.
The PhD will be associated with the Centre for Physics in Health and Medicine.There is the option to enrol in a CAMPEP accredited PhD in Medical Physics, if of interest to applicants who have not undertaken a CAMPEP MSc in Medical Physics, although a standard PhD in Physics route is also available.
For more information please see the post advert or contact Aoife Ivory (aoife.ivory@ucd.ie)