Internship Projects 2027
| Group (Institute) | Project Title(s) Research Area/Keywords |
Duration in weeks | Student Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan Brugués TUD PoL |
Dissecting energy costs of mitotic spindle biophysics/self-organization, energy dissipation, quantitative imaging, mathematical modeling project under the supervision of Shuzo Kato |
12 weeks | Physics, Life sciences, Engineering |
| Oliver Bruns TUD Medical Campus |
Label-free imaging and spectroscopic characterization of tissue contrast in the shortwave infrared for surgical oncology applications oncology, functional imaging, shortwave infrared, label-free, Raman, absorption-based |
12 weeks | biology, life sciences, medicine, computer science, physics, chemistry (but not theoretical/mathematics) |
| Oliver Bruns TUD Medical Campus |
Modification, extension or development of surgical microscopes, endoscopes and back-table systems for surgical oncology applications surgery microscopy, endoscopy, oncology, functional imaging, shortwave infrared, fluorescence, Raman scattering, absorption-based |
12 weeks | electrical, mechanical or other engineering; computer science; physics (programming, CAD design, optics or generally technological understanding) |
| Anna Czarkwiani TUD CRTD |
In vivo micro-CT imaging of regenerating otoconia in the axolotl axolotl, regeneration, gravity sensing, balance disorders |
12 weeks | (life science, engineering, computer science, physics, mathematics, medicine): life science |
| Stefan Diez TUD B CUBE, TUD PoL |
Investigating the influence of microtubule lattice conformation on bidirectional vesicular transport using an in vitro reconstituted assay Expanded and Compacted Microtubules, Molecular Motors, Kinesin, Dynein, Liposomes, Intracellular Transport, In Vitro Reconstitution, Fluorescence Microscopy (TIRF) |
12 weeks | Biophysics, Biochemistry, Life Sciences or Biotechnology |
| Tian Qiu DKFZ |
AI-enabled magnetic tracking of endoscopic instruments Magnetic localization, surgical image registration, machine learning, endoscopy, minimally-invasive surgery |
12 weeks | Engineering, Computer Science or Medicine |
| Shervin Safavi TUD Medical Campus |
Staying alive: how internal needs shape behavior and neural circuits in embodied agents Computational neuroscience and NeuroAI; embodied reinforcement learning, homeostatic regulation, adaptive decision-making, brain-body interaction, naturalistic behavior, interpretability of neural networks |
12 weeks | Computer science, physics, mathematics, engineering, neuroscience/life sciences (other backgrounds are also welcome). Comfort with programming (Python), ideally prior experience in neuroscience or reinforcement learning. |