Curating multi-centre MRI and clinical records
Doctoral research on linking, harmonising and pseudonymising imaging and clinical records held across sixteen hospitals in four countries.
Work with us
Machine learning that has to work on real hospital data.
We are looking for people in machine learning applied to medical data to join our team. If you have a passion for developing computational models (machine learning and “AI”) to benefit those living with neurological disorders, we would love to hear from you.
New lab, new posts
The DREAMS Lab opens at King's College London in Q3 2027
A Wellcome Career Development Award funds a new lab in the Department of Biostatistics and Health Informatics at King's College London. Over the first five years it grows to three postdoctoral positions and one PhD studentship.
Collaborative and independent research
Three posts across the first five years, spanning large-scale data curation, neuroimaging, clinical modelling and multimodal algorithm design.
The posts are not yet open for applications; they will be advertised formally through King's College London in Q3 2027. Expressions of interest sent to arman.eshaghi@kcl.ac.uk are held on file, and those who write will be contacted before the adverts are published.
Why here
What you would be joining
A group whose work has to survive contact with a hospital, not just a validation split.
The team
Researchers and clinicians, same room
MS-PINPOINT is a multidisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians working together to develop digital tools to better understand and treat multiple sclerosis. Methods questions and clinical questions are asked at the same table.
The data
Real hospital scans, not a tidy benchmark
The group works on the messy scans hospitals actually collect, and on making the MRI archives already sitting in NHS systems usable for research. It is harder than a curated dataset, and it is what makes a method usable in a clinic.
The output
Code that leaves the lab
MindGlide, the group's deep-learning tool for measuring lesion burden and regional brain volumes, is open source and published in Nature Communications. Tools here ship as public code alongside the paper.
The place
Queen Square now, Denmark Hill from June 2027
The group sits in the Queen Square Multiple Sclerosis Centre at UCL until June 2027, and moves to the Denmark Hill Campus of King's College London after that.
How to join
Two ways in
Both routes start at the same email address.
Do a PhD with the group
Current PhD studentships are only available to UK students.
There is a summary of an ongoing PhD project below — it is a fair picture of the kind of problem a studentship here involves.
Write to us directly
You can send a CV and a short cover letter to a.eshaghi@ucl.ac.uk.
Tell us which part of the work interests you and what you would want to build.
A worked example
Summary of an ongoing PhD project
The clearest picture we can give of the kind of problem a PhD in this group involves.
Get in touch
Send us a CV and a short cover letter
You can send a CV and a short cover letter to a.eshaghi@ucl.ac.uk. Current PhD studentships are only available to UK students.