Research Assistant (SRI) - Physical Sciences - Casual 2025-13159

One of Canada's Top 10 Research Hospitals, Sunnybrook Research Institute is developing innovations in care for the more than 1.3 million patients the hospital cares for annually.

Sunnybrook Research Institute is the research enterprise of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. Research spans three Toronto-based campuses, eight programs and three scientific platforms. Our main aims are to understand and prevent disease, and to develop treatments that enhance and extend life. Our vision is to invent the future of health care. Each year, we conduct about $100 million in research across 500,000 square feet, including in the world’s first Centre for Research in Image-Guided Therapeutics.

The position is within an ultrasound lab that is part of the Physical Sciences Platform. The person will be responsible for analyzing data, preparing manuscripts for submission for publication and revising the manuscripts according to the review process. 

Summary of Duties:

• Processing and analyzing ultra-high speed microscopy data of cavitation within micro-vessel scale phantoms
• Preparing figures and tables relating to the above data for publication
• Preparing manuscripts relating to the above data for submission to an academic journal; subsequent revisions of these manuscripts. 

Qualifications:

• Must have PhD, with research experience directly focused on ultra-high speed microscopy imaging and signals associated with cavitation in microchannels.