Staff Scientist / Postdoc – Tissue Clearing & 3D Image Analysis

About us 🧠🔬

The Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD) at LMU Klinikum is a highly collaborative, international team at the interface between LMU and Helmholtz Munich . Our mission is to understand complex biology in 3D by combining tissue clearing, light-sheet microscopy, high-throughput analysis, and AI .

We are hiring a Staff Scientist – Tissue Clearing & Image Analysis (m / f / d) within the Mesoscale Hub of the DFG-funded Excellence Cluster SyNergy (Systems Neurology) .

The role at a glance ✨

This is a scientist role with a strong science-enabler and project-driver focus. You will run and evolve our tissue clearing + light-sheet imaging pipeline , support and manage collaborations across SyNergy , and translate complex data into robust, quantitative insight . In addition, you will contribute scientifically to a defined topic aligned with the Mesoscale Hub (with co-authorship on resulting publications).

What you’ll do ✅

• Implement tissue-clearing projects in collaborative projects within the SyNergy Excellence Cluster
• Support data analysis and visualization
• Drive methods development
• Develop new analysis pipelines in collaboration with our AI team 🤖
• Lab support : maintenance of cutting-edge light-sheet microscopes
• (Optional) Support with writing new animal experiment licenses

What we’re looking for 🎯

Practical details 📍