Internship Positions 2025
| Group (Institute) | Research Area/Keywords Project Title(s) | Duration in weeks | Student Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | chromatin, optical tweezers, cell free extracts, mechanics Biophysical characterization of emergent chromatin properties | 12 | Biophysics, Biology, Engineering |
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | microtubules, cytoplasm, biophysics, microfluidics, pattern formation Self-organization of cytoplasm by autocatalytic microtubule waves | 12 | Biophysics, Biology, Engineering |
| Oliver Bruns (TUD Medical Campus) | oncology, functional imaging, shortwave infrared, label-free, Raman, absorption-based Label-free imaging and spectroscopic characterization of tissue contrast in the shortwave infrared for surgical applications | 12 | biology, life sciences, medicine, computer science (not mathematics, physics, nor chemistry) |
| Ünal Coskun (TUD Medical Campus, TUD PLID) | Membrane Biochemistry, Receptor Signaling, Lipids, Lipid-Protein Interactions, Structural Biology, Lipid analysis Lipid-Protein Interactions in Cell Signaling | 12 | Biochemistry, Biophysics, Structural Biology, Cell Biology |
| Anthony Gavalas (TUD PLID) | Developmental biology, bioinformatics, pancreatic progenitors, epigenetics, transcriptomics, regulatory networks, β-cell maturation Gene regulatory networks in pancreatic progenitors guiding β-cell development and maturation | 12 | Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics |
| Anthony Gavalas (TUD PLID) | Developmental biology, bioinformatics, human pluripotent stem cells, differentiation, endocrine pancreatic islet cells, image analysis, machine learning Human pluripotent stem cells, differentiation, endocrine pancreatic islet cells, image analysis, machine learning | 12 | Developmental and Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics |
| Ivan Minev (IPF, TUD Medical Campus) | Stem Cell and Molecular Biology and Image Analysis Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into endocrine pancreatic islets | 12 | Image analysis and machine learning (Python), Molecular and Stem Cell Biology |
| Felix Müller-Planitz (TUD MTZ) | Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Sequencing, Long-Read Sequencing, Ageing, Chromatin, Nucleosomes Unravelling the Epigenetic Landscape of Aging: A Long-Read Sequencing Approach | 12 | Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Computational Biology |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Computational neuroscience Investigating criticality in neural systems (searching for the signatures of criticality in neural data, and/or biophysical modeling of critical networks) | 12 | Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Computer Science (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Computational neuroscience Common dynamics in artificial and biological neural networks | 12 | Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Xingbo Yang (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Metabolism, Developmental Biology Dissecting spatiotemporal metabolism in mouse oocytes | 12 | Physics, Life Sciences |
| Xingbo Yang (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Metabolism, Developmental Biology, Active Matter Bioenergetics of spindle self-organization | 12 | Physics, Life Sciences |
| Xingbo Yang (TUD PoL) | Biophysics, Metabolism, Developmental Biology Metabolic scaling in brain organoids | 12 | Physics, Life Sciences |