Jan Valosek, PhD
🧠 I am a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer with multidisciplinary research and clinical background. My main interests are spinal cord and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), deep learning and open-source software development.
🧲 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship; see Credits) at Polytechnique Montréal in the NeuroPoly laboratory. I am also affiliated to Mila - Québec AI Institute and Palacký University Olomouc. My current research is focused on developing deep learning methods for spinal cord and lesion segmentation from MRI images.
💻 As a member of the Spinal Cord Toolbox (SCT) team, I maintain and develop a free and open-source software tool dedicated to the processing and analysis of spinal cord MRI data.
🎓 During my PhD I worked on the application of advanced diffusion MRI in patients with spinal cord compression and its relationship with electrophysiological findings; for details, see here.
🏥 Besides my research, I worked for 6.5 years as a biomedical engineer at the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Neurology, University Hospital Olomouc. I processed presurgical examinations (functional MRI and tractography) of patients with brain tumours and provided technical support during brain and spine surgeries.
Research Interests
- Spinal cord and brain MRI
- Deep learning applied to medical imaging
- MRI data management
- Open-source image analysis software development
Professional experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
NeuroPoly lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Polytechnique Montreal, QC, Canada
11/2022 - present
Research Associate
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia
04/2016 - present
Biomedical engineer
Department of biomedical engineering
University Hospital Olomouc, Czechia
03/2016 - 10/2022
Education
PhD, Neurosciences
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia
2017 - 2022
BSc and Msc, Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Technical University of Ostrava, Czechia
2012 - 2017
Credits
My Postdoctoral Fellowship is funded from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101107932.
My research internship at Medical University of Vienna, Austria in 2021 was funded by the "Aktion Österreich-Tschechien, AÖCZ-Semesterstipendien" scholarship MPC-2020-00013 from the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH), Mobility Programmes, Bilateral and Multilateral Cooperation (MPC) financed by Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) of Austria.
