Technische*r Assistent*in (m/w/d), 50-60 % – MPI of Immunology and Epigenetics, Freiburg
Deadline: 31 August 2024
Yout tasks:
- troubleshooting, checks and maintenance of the microscopes and other equipment
- teaching users of the Facility on operation of the microscopes and on basic bioimage analysis
- contribution to procedures required by safety-related regulations (work safety, gene technology safety, fire prevention, laser safety etc)
- management of the stocks
- keeping electronic records related to microscopes quality checks, stocks, safety documentation etc
- communication with external companies concerning repairs, orders, service visits etc
- other tasks required for functioning of the Imaging Facility
Your qualifications:
Mandatory:
- Completed vocational training as a technical assistant (MTA, BTA, CTA) or an equivalent qualification
- Knowledge of the principles and methods of light microscopy, including fluorescence microscopy
- Experience in operating advanced fluorescence microscopes, such as LSM, spinning disk, wide field, SMLM, light sheet, multi-photon
- Fluency in English, both oral and written
- Familiarity with office software, such as MS Office, Outlook, Adobe Acrobat etc.
- Willingness to learn on the job
- Genuine willingness to assist colleagues
- Proactivity and the ability to work independently, without micromanagement from the direct supervisor
Desirable:
- Experience in maintenance and troubleshooting of advanced light microscopes (ideally Carl Zeiss)
- Experience working with one or more bioimage analysis softwares, such as Fiji/ImageJ, Imaris, Huygens, Zen etc.
- Proficiency in German, both oral and written
- Experience with electronic laboratory notebooks, such as Labfolder
- Experience with the responsibilities of a Laboratory Safety Officer in an EU-based organization, including the preparation of laboratory safety documents and compliance with laboratory safety procedures
- Experience in mammalian cell culture, including transfection
- Experience in live and fixed sample preparation for fluorescence microscopy, such as immunofluorescence, FISH, etc.
- Team player, reliable, communicative
We offer:
- Payment according to TVöD up to a maximum of E09b if the collectively agreed and personal requirements are fulfilled
- Social benefits in line with public service (VBL)
- Additional performance-related remuneration component
- Professional training and development opportunities
- Good public transport connections and subsidy for job ticket
- Challenging work in a modern working environment
- Family-friendly offers (affiliated day care center at the institute, parent-child room, breastfeeding room)
Technische*r Assistent*in (m/w/d) – Core Facility Mikroskopie & Bildgebung Universität Bielefeld
July 2024
Ihre Aufgaben
- technische Unterstützung von Laborarbeiten (50 %)
- Datenerhebung und Auswertung von Experimenten, Dokumentation (30 %), z. B. Routine-Mikroskopiearbeiten wie Fluorophor- und Antikörpertestung
- Labororganisation und allgemeine -aufgaben (20 %)
Ihr Profil
Das erwarten wir:
- erfolgreich abgeschlossene Ausbildung zur*zum chemisch-, biologischoder medizinisch-technischen Assistent*in (CTA, BTA, MTA) bzw. zur*zum medizinische Technolog*in (MT)
- alternativ: erfolgreich abgeschlossene Ausbildung zur*zum Chemie oder Biologielaborant*in (mit jeweils gleichwertigen Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen wie ein*e CTA/BTA /MTA/MT)
- Bereitschaft und Interesse am Umgang mit (teils automatisierten) Laborgeräten inkl. der zugehörigen Software
- Interesse an biomedizinischer Forschung und Bereitschaft zur Mitarbeit in unterschiedlichen Forschungsprojekten
- Interesse am Aufbau der fakultätsübergreifenden Core Facility aktiv mitzuwirken
- sicherer Umgang mit gängigen Office-Programmen (Word, Excel)
- Team- und Kommunikationsfähigkeit sowie Fähigkeit zum eigenständigen Arbeiten
- hohe organisatorische Kompetenz, Engagement, Sorgfalt und Zuverlässigkeit
- Gender- und Diversitykompetenz
Das wünschen wir uns:
- mehrjährige Berufserfahrung
- Erfahrung in biomedizinischer und/oder klinischer Forschung
- Erfahrung mit elektronischen Laborbüchern (z. B. eLab)
- gute Englischkenntnisse
- Erfahrungen im Hochschulumfeld
Unser Angebot
- Vergütung nach E9a TV-L
- unbefristet
- Vollzeit (Teilzeit möglich)
- interne und externe Fortbildungsmöglichkeiten
- Vielzahl von Gesundheits-, Beratungs- und Präventionsangeboten
- Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf
- sicherer Arbeitsplatz
- fester Dienstort (Bielefeld) ohne Reisetätigkeit
- flexible Arbeitszeiten
- Möglichkeit eines Job-Tickets für den ÖPNV (regionaler Verkehrsverbund), gute Verkehrsanbindung
- betriebliche Zusatzversorgung (VBL)
- vielfältige Angebote (Mensa, Cafeteria, Restaurants, Uni-Shop, Geldautomaten, etc.)
Scientific Content Creator (m/f/d) – PicoQuant
July 2024
Start: immediately
Working hours: Full-time or part time (min. 30h/week)
Place of work: Berlin-Adlershof, hybrid
Your future tasks include:
- Create target group-specific, primarily scientific content for marketing communication, e.g. papers, application examples, infographics and advertising assets
- Developing a medium-term strategy for the content required to achieve marketing goals
- Initiate and manage collaborations with clients to generate content
- Plan, create and submit abstracts for conference papers
- Monitoring relevant scientific publications
Your benefits
- Permanent employment contract with flexible working hours
- 30 days of vacation
- Possibility of mobile working
- Secure job in an industry with a promising future
- Active health management with sports and massages in-house
- Very good work-life balance with consideration for private circumstances
- Individual training and promotion of professional development
- Good transport connections and subsidy for job ticket – for the sake of the environment
- Company pension plan and much more
Your profile
- University degree in natural sciences in materials or life sciences, chemistry or physics (preferably with a PhD)
- Experience with optical examination methods for the characterization of materials or biological structures
- 2-3 years of professional experience in the field of products requiring explanation for science, e.g. in content creation, marketing or sales
- Convincing appearance and enjoy presenting complex technical issues in an understandable way
- Results-oriented way of working
- Knowledge of German and English at language level C1
Field Application Scientist (FAS), Global (remote, DACH) – Abbelight
July 2024
Abbelight is headquartered in Paris, France with a commercial presence in selected global markets in EMEA,North America and APAC. We are growing and looking for exceptional talent to join our amazing company in support of our mission.
We are seeking an outstanding Field Applications Scientist, Global, based in any major city in the DACH region as long as it is close to an international airport and main train stations.
This position requires to travel up to 50% of the time worldwide
Your responsibilites
- Deliver exceptional pre and post-sales applications support; educate customers on the use of our technology and help them conduct microscopy and/or nanoscopy projects to maximize their research success.
- Understand the customer’s research requirements to help them design, implement, analyze and interpret their experiments, thus building the scientific credibility of both the FAS and our technology.
- Work with the Account Executive Team, supporting their efforts to identify, develop and close high-value sales opportunities to meet/exceed revenue targets for hardware and consumables.
- Persuasively deliver technical, customer-facing seminars covering a variety of scientific research areas, applications, products and data related to Abbelight’s technology platform.
- Deliver Remote, Abbelight in-house and Customer on-site demonstrations
- Coordinate with Sales, R&D, Product Management and Marketing to implement successful strategies that balance the needs of the customer, Sales, and internal departments.
- Build, engage and leverage relationships with Early Access targets, KOLs, Business Associates and Strategic Partners.
- In collaborating with R&D, Product Management and Marketing to own and deliver on the creation of Applications Notes and White Papers.
- Support the of Customer publications.
- Act as an internal customer advocate by communicating information between the customer, Sales, R&D, Product Management and Marketing and other departments related to product feedback, competitive intelligence, market trends, and effectiveness of marketing, positioning, and field tactics.
Your profile
- Ph.D. in a relevant field with 2+ years’ experience (post-doc or industrial)
– Must-have :-
- Practical research experience in the life science area
- In-depth knowledge of Single-Molecule Localization Microscopy
- Strong verbal , written and interpersonal communication skills to effectively deliver technical presentations, handle customer issues and work collaboratively to support the efforts of Field Sales.
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- Ability to learn quickly and work in a highly innovative, fast-paced startup environment, collaborating closely with other cross-functional and geographically distributed teams
- Proficiency in English
– It’s a a real bonus if :
- Previous field applications support experience
- Experience in the demonstration, installation, operation and troubleshooting of sophisticated, high-throughput instrument platforms is a plus.
- Experience in successful experimental design, interpretation, troubleshooting and optimization. Ability to develop solutions to complex problems that require innovation and collaboration.
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Our Offer
Working at Abbelight offers the possibility to :
- Grow in a dynamic and stimulating environment with a friendly office atmosphere near Paris.
- Make an impact by actively contributing to the company’s growth.
Interact with multidisciplinary teams (biochemistry researchers, optical engineers, software developers…). - Operate in an international environment: teammates, distributors and customers in Europe, Asia, and North America.
Career options for Core Facilities
Visit other Core Facilites and learn more about their procedures, techniques and activities within the GerBi-GMB Job Shadowing programme.
The GerBi-GMB Rent-the-trainer programme can help you to bring biological image analysis expertise in your own core facility.
Header image: Vater-Pacini corpuscles, masson goldner trichrome stain, finger berry human, Zeiss Axioplan Mot 2, Steffen Köhler, CAi, HHU