The postdoc will be based at Liverpool University working with Dr. I. V. Biktasheva and Prof. V. N. Biktashev. The postdoc will also interact closely with Prof. D. Barkley at the University of Warwick.

The aim of the project is to create a practical, regular and generic technology of predicting the drift of spiral and scroll waves in excitable media using their response functions. The project involves the development of numerical methods for computing response functions in the FitzHugh-Nagumo system with high precision. The project will also include the study of the dependence of the response functions on parameters and comparison with asymptotic theory for both spiral and scroll waves. Finally the project will entail the extension to physiologically detailed excitable models for cardiac tissue.

The ideal candidate will have expertise in both computational mathematics, numerical solution of systems of non-linear PDEs in particular, and scientific programming, experience in computer simulation for cardiology will be an advantage.

For more details, see Summary of the project and background papers:

• I.V. Biktasheva and V.N. Biktashev "On a wave-particle dualism of spiral waves dynamics" Phys. Rev. E, 67, 026221 (2003)
• P. Wheeler and D. Barkley, Computation of Spiral Spectra, SIADS 5, 157 - 177 (2006)

To apply for the job:

For full details, or to request an application pack visit http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/job_vacancies/ or e-mail jobs@liv.ac.uk.