Open job position: Scientist / Postdoc – Vi(MA)²C

Helmholtz Imaging is seeking a Scientist/Postdoc for the Vi(MA)²C project, focused on developing a lab-on-chip system for real-time manipulation of microbial arenas. The role involves deep-learning-based image analysis, software integration, and collaboration with bioimage analysis partners.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and extend deep-learning–based segmentation, classification and tracking for microbes and microgels in phase-contrast and fluorescence images
• Optimise these models and pipelines for real-time performance and integrate them into an action–perception loop that drives the optical tweezers
• Use and further develop simulation tools to design and benchmark control strategies before deploying them on the microscope
• Integrate your software with the microfluidic live-cell imaging platform and provide Python/Jupyter-based tools for collaborators, contributing to FAIR datasets and open-source software
• (Co-)Supervise student projects at BSc, MSc, and PhD level
• Write research articles, as well as grant proposals, and present your own work at international conferences