There’s a new Research Fellow position at the University of Edinburgh now being advertised here.

For me, QuPath was always a side project that got very out of hand - and so this is the first ever job funded specifically to work on the software.

I’m hoping to find someone who is much better at software engineering and/or machine learning than me, and together we will do wonderful, exciting things with open software for bioimage analysis and computational pathology.

There are a lot of extremely interesting and important things to work on in an open platform like QuPath, including data structures, software design, user experience, documentation & training, novel algorithms, deep learning, multiplexed analysis, spatial analysis, data interrogation, domain specific languages, standardization, high-throughput analysis, data visualization…

I don’t propose doing them all in the 9 months of this position, but rather I would like to build a group working together in the coming years - subject, of course, to the ubiquitous challenge in academia of finding funding to do the good stuff.

With over 37,000 downloads for QuPath v0.1.2 and already over 7,000 downloads for the latest milestone (pre-)release, I think it’s clear there’s a need for the software and an active user community. I’m hoping this will help build a sufficiently compelling case to secure future support.

So if you like the sound of your work directly impacting thousands of users and improving the speed and quality of data analysis across many important biomedical studies, please do check out the post being advertised now.

Alternatively, please also get in touch if you’d like to offer or explore other ways to support the project - joint grant applications, collaborations, letters of support and so on.