Research Assistant with Teaching Responsibility

At the Chair of Sensor and Actuator Systems within the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at TU Berlin semiconductor and CMOS-based sensors are developed for biomedical purposes. This is done together with academic and industrial partners from material sciences, bio physics, bio chemistry, and medicine within the framework of Europe-wide interdisciplinary cooperative projects.

In this context a full-time position is available as Research Assistant (“Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”), salary group is BAT IIa. The related responsibilities are to support teaching and the on-going setup of the laboratories. The opportunity to work towards a PhD degree is given and strongly supported, applications for a PostDoc position are also welcome.

The related topic is

“Design of a CMOS-Chip-Based System for High-Throughput Generation of Cell Clones”.

The project is done in close cooperation with the University of Padova, Italy. It is focussing on the development of a CMOS-chip-based system for high-yield generation of mammalian cells clones for therapeutic investigations. For that purpose, chips with a high density of sites and PCBs carrying several of such chips shall be developed which allow to transfect and to clone cells growing in culture on a dielectric surface of the related chips. Moreover, on-chip sensors shall be implemented to detect the efficiency of the cloning process. Last not least, a mechanical system shall be developed to perform the required cell handling.

Applicants must have a diploma or a master’s degree from a university in electrical engineering or in a similar discipline with excellent grades. A background in one or more of the following fields - CMOS post-processing and CMOS device physics, analog circuit design, electrical metrology, mechanical design - is welcome, moreover good English skills are required.

In case of interest please email your application documents to roland.thewes@tu-berlin.de or contact stefano.vassanelli@unipd.it.

TU Berlin is aiming for an increase of the percentage of women, applications from female candidates are explicitly welcome. In cases of equal qualification, aptitude and expertise of the applicants, female applicants will be given preferential treatment for those salary groups and careers in which females are underrepresented. Applications from severely disabled people with appropriate suitability are given preferential treatment.