The NMI is a member of the Innovation Alliance Baden-Württemberg. It is involved in application-oriented research at the interface between the life sciences and material science. An interdisciplinary team of scientists is developing new technologies for companies and public research sponsors in the areas of Pharma and Biotech, Biomedicine and Materials Science, and Material Analysis and Electron Microscopy.

The area of Biomedicine and Material Sciences focuses, among other things, on the development of in vitro/ex vivo alternatives to animal testing. For the research group "Organ on Chip" we are looking for a motivated Bachelor/Master student (m/f/d), to hold student job as a research assistant / HiWi position for up to 6 months.

Your tasks

• The position will focus on specific parts of the microfluidic fabrication process necessary to develop Organ on Chip systems
• As well as participating in the final assembly of the microfluidic chips produced.

Requirements

• BSc or MSc level student from the fields of Biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, polymer science, chemistry, biology or similar
• Technical experience is highly desired
• Creativity, ability to work in a team, structured way of working
• Interest in a broad range of tasks and willingness to learn new methods
• Interest in working on practice-oriented research and development tasks at the interface between materials and biology
• Proficiency in either English or German

We offer  

• Working within an exciting multidisciplinary project and a highly innovative research topic    
• Highly motivated, competent and multidisciplinary team with scientific and technical staff
• An exciting and dynamic working environment in application-oriented research institut
• Excellent infrastructure and technical laboratory equipment 

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