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Open Positions

We’re always happy to hear from motivated students and researchers.If you're interested in joining the lab or starting a collaboration, please get in touch or fill out the contact form.

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Master Students

Do you want to do a rotation, internship, or master thesis in our lab, just send us a message!
 

Projects include microscopy and cell biology, plant phenotyping, molecular biology, biochemistry, structural biology and bioinformatics techniques.
 

If you want to do a master in Heidelberg, please contact the respective programs:

PhD positions

AGILE - Advanced Training for Next Generation Scientists in Spatio-Temporal Imaging of Plant Cells.
 

We will be looking for a PhD candidate in the spring of 2026, with a starting date around September 2026, although there is flexibility there.

You will work within the Marie Curie Doctoral Network AGILE, which is a consortium from scientists all over Europe, dedicated to train the next generation of plant cell biology microscopists. Benefits of the Marie Curie DN framework are great collaboration and networking opportunities, excellent training for academia and industry, and a good salary.

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Independent Project Collaborators

We’re always open to collaborative projects with researchers who share an interest in light signaling, phase separation, or plant development. If you have an idea you'd like to explore together — whether experimental or theoretical — we’re happy to discuss potential directions and funding opportunities.

Please get in touch or use the contact form to tell us about your project idea.

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