Technische Universität Dresden - Chair of Tissue Dynamics - Cluster of Excellence “Physics of Life” (PoL)
The TU Dresden is one of eleven German universities that were identified as an “excellence university”. TUD has about 36.500 students and almost 5319 employees, 507 professors among them, and, thus, is the largest university in Saxony, today.
Having been committed to sciences and the engineering before the reunification of Germany, TU Dresden now is a multi-discipline university, also offering humanities and social sciences as well as medicine.
Working field:
The Chair of Tissue Dynamics (Campàs Lab) uses interdisciplinary and quantitative approaches to study the physics and mechanics of multicellular systems (
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/en/research/core-groups/campas). We have recently developed novel techniques to quantify and perturb local tissue mechanics using microdroplets. These techniques offer unique opportunities to study physical aspects of multicellular systems. Our lab, hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics, is part of the Cluster of Excellence PoL (
https://physics-of-life.tu-dresden.de/en), which is a new interdisciplinary research center dedicated to Biological Physics and Quantitative Biology in the outstanding Dresden environment.
Tasks: Adapt and further develop magnetic microdroplet techniques to study cell and tissue mechanics in living tissues (including developing embryos and organoids), and in particular to study the role of mechanical feedbacks in multicellular systems. The successful applicant will work in a collaborative environment at the Chair of Tissue Dynamics (Campàs lab), with a highly interdisciplinary group of researchers, including physicists, engineers and biologists, as well as in collaboration with other research groups at the Physics of Life Excellence Cluster and at the Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.
Requirements:
A university and a PhD degree in Physics (or related fields, including Biology or Engineering) is required. Previous experience in biological physics, instrumentation, soft-matter physics, cell biology, organoids or other multicellular systems will be considered positively.
For any questions regarding the position, please feel free to contact Prof. Dr. Otger Campàs (
otger.campas@tu-dresden.de).
How to apply:
Applications from women are particularly welcome. The same applies to people with disabilities.
Please submit your application as a single pdf file by July 15, 2022 (stamped arrival date applies), including a cover letter explaining your motivation to apply for this position and your CV via the TU Dresden SecureMail Portal
https://securemail.tu-dresden.de to
julia.abram@tu-dresden.de (subject line ‘Mechanics Feedbacks in Living Tissues’) or to: TU Dresden, Exzellenzcluster “Physik des Lebens” (PoL), z. Hd. Julia Abram, Arnoldstr. 18, 01307 Dresden, Germany. Please also arrange three references to send their letters directly to
julia.abram@tu-dresden.de via the TU Dresden SecureMail Portal
https://securemail.tu-dresden.de. Please submit copies only, as your application will not be returned to you.
Reference to data protection: Your data protection rights, the purpose for which your data will be processed, as well as further information about data protection is available to you on the website: https: //tu-dresden.de/karriere/datenschutzhinweis.