Student job (B.Sc/M.Sc) or internship in the field of novel in-tissue imaging techniques

30.04.2025, Studentische Hilfskräfte, Praktikantenstellen, Studienarbeiten

We are now seeking a highly qualified and motivated bachelor or master student with an interest in imaging techniques, image annotation and image analysis

Student job (B.Sc/M.Sc) or internship in the field of novel in-tissue imaging techniques

The research group for Cell Engineering, Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging (IBMI) at the Helmholtz Zentrum München (HMGU) in Munich, Germany, focuses on enabling this rich variety of tools for optoacoustic (OA) imaging. OA is an emerging methodology bridging light excitation and ultrasound detection towards deep tissue imaging.

The Stiel combines OA with the concept of photoswitching conveying a modulation of the label that allows to separate from invariant background in tissue and allowing highly sensitive detection of – for example – genetically encoded labels (e.g. Stiel, Nature Methods, 2024 and Mishra, Science Advances, 2020).
To advance this methodology we now combine our imaging with AI towards achieving superior sensitivity. For this,

We are now seeking a highly qualified and motivated bachelor or master student with an interest in imaging techniques, image annotation and image analysis

Your tasks:
In this project you will contribute to the overall effort by annotating imaging data towards generating ground truth datasets. Beyond that you will help – and learn about the imaging techniques and control methods (cryo sectioning). In detail your tasks will be:
- Manually annotated datasets for fiducial markers
- Run AI driven segmentation tools
- Explore novel AI-driven segmentation techniques on medical imaging datasets to facilitate experimental evaluations
- Collate and organize data towards subsequent computational methods
- Interface with and support the computational methods (data science researcher) as well as with the experimentalist conducting the imaging experiment (imaging researcher)

Your profile:
- You are currently studying in the Bachelor or Master programs in biology, physics, engineering or computational fields.
- You are a careful and structured worker with previous hands-on experience in data organization and use.
- You are a team player, resilient and diligent worker and have an eye for details.
- You share our passion for imaging.
- Ideally, you have some experience in coding (e.g. Matlab, Python or similar)
- You are proficiency in the English language
- The work for an internship should be conducted for a minimum duration of at least 3 months.

We offer:
- Exciting interdisciplinary and international work environment
- Cutting edge methods at the border between biology, chemistry, and physics.
- Great insights into work of a leading research institute
- Individual supervision with the possibility to work independently.
- A topic with high chances of future scientific outcomes (e.g., publications).
- Payment as a student researcher support
- An opportunity to engage with a team of scientists and engineers on a challenging research project and advance the state-of-the art in medical imaging technology

Your application:
If interested please direct your inquiries and apply with a succinct letter of motivation, a CV, a transcript of your records and your current educational status, in English and in a single PDF file, via email to (andre.stiel@tum.de). Please indicate “Student thesis (B.Sc/M.Sc) or internship in the field of in tissue imaging” in the subject line.

Kontakt: andre.stiel@tum.de

More Information

https://stiel-lab.de