Postdoctoral position – Rennes

The postdoctoral researcher will develop methods and tools to analyze data related to physical activity measurement, particularly data recorded by different physical activity monitors (GPS, accelerometer, heart rate monitor) with the specific aim of studying walking activity. The postdoctoral researcher will work at the interface between a number of research projects for which database are either already available or for which data are under collection. One of the final aims is to contribute significantly to the conception of a solution to assess walking capacity during free-living conditions in patients with walking impairment. This requires finding appropriate methods to process signals provided by physical activity monitors but also to develop an interface to efficiently analyze this data and appropriately communicate results (to the patient, the doctor, the researcher). The different aims will be defined and prioritized according to the total duration of the postdoctoral position. However, the availability of a number of pre-processed data from different database should contribute to the definition of an ambitious publication plan for the postdoctoral researcher.