Jan Valosek, PhD

🧠 I am a neuroscientist and biomedical engineer with a multidisciplinary research and clinical background. My main interests include spinal cord and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), deep learning, and open-source software development.

👨‍🔬 I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich, Spinal Cord Injury Center, Balgrist University Hospital, and at Palacký University Olomouc (supported by a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship; see this page for more details). My work focuses on developing automated, reproducible MRI analysis tools for spinal cord injury (SCI) patients using machine and deep learning methods.

🇨🇦 I continue to actively collaborate with the NeuroPoly Lab at Polytechnique Montréal and Mila – Quebec AI Institute, where I previously spent 2.5 years as a postdoctoral researcher developing deep-learning methods for spinal cord MRI segmentation.

💻 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.

🤝 I also collaborate with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Ostrava and with University Hospital Olomouc.

🎓 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 this paper.

🏥 In addition to my research, I worked for 6.5 years as a biomedical engineer at the Department of Neurosurgery and the Department of Neurology at 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

Professional experience

Education

Credits