Internship Positions 2026
| Group (Institute) | Project Title(s) Research Area/Keywords | Duration in weeks | Student Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elias Barriga (TUD PoL) | Exploring adhesion independent electrotaxis in cancer cells cell biology, cell migration, microfluidics, adhesion independent migration, cancer | 12 | any background helps |
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | Buckling instabilities of the wave front in active deformable particle systems | 12 | Physics |
| Jan Brugués (TUD PoL) | Energy flows in collectively moving systems | 12 | Physics, 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 | Biology, Life Sciences, Medicine, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry (but not Theoretical/Mathematics) |
| Benjamin Friedrich (project under the supervision of Yasmin Abdelghaffar) (TUD PoL) | Modeling the dynamics of primary cilia in developing pancreatic duct networks biophysics, network theory, image analysis, fluid dynamics, elastica, ordinary differential equations, developmental biology | 12 | Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science |
| Benjamin Friedrich (project under the supervision of Francesco Leone) (TUD PoL) | Theoretical modeling of silica pattern morphogenesis in diatoms biomineralization, pattern formation, image analysis PDF with more information | 12 | Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science |
| Anke Fuchs (TUD CRTD) | Detection and Characterization of Virus-Specific T Cells from Human Peripheral Blood adaptive immunity, virus-specific T cells, viral infections, PBMC (leukocyte) isolation, flow cytometry | 12 | Life Science, Biotechnology, Medicine |
| Anthony Gavalas (TUD PLID) | Gene regulatory networks in pancreatic progenitors guiding β-cell development and maturation pancreatic progenitors, epigenetics, EM-seq, ATAC-seq, transcriptomics, gene regulatory networks, β-cell maturation | 12 | Bioinformatics, Developmental and Molecular Biology |
| Nils Kröger (TUD B CUBE) | Molecular Characterization of Diatom Biofilm Formation bioadhesion, biological materials | 12 | Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Cell Biology, or Bioinformatics) |
| Nils Kröger (TUD B CUBE) | The Role of Spatiotemporal Protein Patterns in Membrane-mediated Biosilica Morphogenesis biomineralization, membrane biochemistry and biophysics, biological materials | 12 | Life Sciences (Molecular Biology, Biochemistry/Biophysics, or Cell Biology) |
| Yael Politi (TUD B CUBE) | Characterizing Proteins Involved in the Formation of Instect Cuticle In Cells and Tissues cell biology | 12 | Life Sciences |
| Tian Qiu (DKFZ) | Wireless micro-sensors to monitor biomarkers for precise radiotherapy wireless sensor, microrobots, biomarkers sensing, biomedical microdevices, radiation therapy, medical physics | 12 | Engineering, Physics, Nuclear Medicine |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Investigating criticality in neural systems signatures of criticality in neural data, biophysical modeling of critical networks | 12 | Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Computer Science (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Common dynamics in artificial and biological neural networks computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, recurrent neural network, neural data analysis | 12 | Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience, Computer Science (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Shervin Safavi (TUD Medical Campus) | Investigating optimization-driven functional motifs in embodied deep reinforcement learning computational neuroscience, artificial intelligence, recurrent neural network, neural data analysis, reinforcement learning | 12 | Computer Science, Physics, Mathematics, Neuroscience (other backgrounds are also welcomed) |
| Michele Solimena (project under the supervision of Solange Aurrecoechea Duran) (TUD PLID) | Decoding Pancreatic Islet Connectivity: A Deep Learning Characterization of Islet Innervation machine learning, deep learning segmentation, molecular biology, diabetes, volume electron microscopy | 12 | Molecular Biology, Computational Biology |
| Charlotte Steenblock (project under the supervision of Samira Kaziakhmedova) (TUD CRTD) | Infection susceptibility in hypercortisolism molecular biology, immunology, virology | 12 | Life Science |
| Anna Taubenberger (TUD BIOTEC) | Exploring the effect of dietary lipids on cell mechanical properties biophysics, cell biology, cell mechanics, cell adhesion, cytoskeleton, AFM, realtime deformability cytometry | 12 | Life Science, (Bio)Physics, Medicine |