Jan Valosek, PhD
I am a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer with multidisciplinary research and clinical background. My main interest is the spinal cord and brain quantitative magnetic resonance imaging.
I am now a postdoctoral fellow at Polytechnique Montréal in the NeuroPoly laboratory.
My PhD research focused on 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 (fMRI and tractography) of patients with brain tumours and provided technical support during brain and spine surgeries.
Research Interests
- Spinal cord MRI
- Medical AI
- Deep Learning
- MRI data management
- Software development
Professional experience
Postdoctoral Fellow
NeuroPoly lab, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Polytechnique Montreal, QC, Canada
11/2022 - present
Research Associate
fMRI laboratory, Department of Neurology
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
External lecturer
Department of Medical Biophysics
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia
09/2020 - 04/2021
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