Employment Opportunities

Director of the Biomechanics Program
Tenure/Tenure Track
Rehabilitation Medicine Department
NIH Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
Department of Health and Human Services

The Rehabilitation Medicine Department (RMD) within the Clinical Center (CC) of the National Institutes of Health is pleased to announce an immediate opening for a Director of its Biomechanics Program. This position will be tenured or on the tenure track and funding will be available to support the candidate’s program of research. The Director will report to the Chief of the RMD.

The Biomechanics Program offers a unique research opportunity in support of the mission of the NIH; fostering fundamental creative discoveries, developing scientific resources and expanding medical and scientific knowledge. The successful candidate will direct a state of the art motion capture lab (with a 4-force plate, 6-camera Vicon system, an instrumented treadmill, a Biodex, and a Phillips IU-22 ultrasound, along with access to various state-of-the-art technologies within the CC). The director will be expected to lead a diversified team of engineering and clinical staff in performance of cutting edge rehabilitation research. Responsibilities will include the development of innovative research tools, the creative application of these tools to critical research questions and the training of both clinical and engineering-based researchers.

 

1. Provide visionary leadership in the field of biomechanics.
2. Develop an independent line of research that compliments ongoing protocols.
3. Provide ongoing research support of various CC and institute based protocols.
4. Establish collaborations with other NIH institutes along with other experts in the field.
5. Provide research training opportunities for research fellows, post-docs, and visiting scholars.
6. Translate the research into both scholarly publications and into clinically applicable tools.
7. Guide their research team in the process of data collection, monitoring and clinical interpretation.
8. Serve as an expert in the field of biomechanics for both NIH and the wider research community.

1. An advanced clinical degree or Ph.D. in biomechanics or related field.
2. At least 3-5 years of experience working in a biomechanics laboratory.
3. Expertise in three-dimensional, six degree-of-freedom kinematic and kinetic analyses is desirable, particularly of gait.
4. Expertise in musculoskeletal modeling and data processing and analysis.
5. Recognition of leadership within the field (e.g., a history of successful grantsmanship, a history of scholarly publications).
6. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.