We are seeking for two exceptional candidates, who would join an ERC-funded project LIFEGATE:
Complexity of living matter currently poses the most adverse barrier in modern in-vivo microscopy. Fuelled by numerous branches of life sciences, the race is now to increase the penetration depth of super-resolution imaging inside living organisms. This project sets out to develop new, hair-thin endoscopic devices, sending back high-quality images from unprecedented depths of the most delicate tissues of living organisms. The team will push the fundamental and technological limits of the enabling principle - holographic control of light propagation through multimode fibres. This ‘gate-through-life’ will enable the team to deploy several prominent light-based imaging methods, including super-resolution approaches, inside freely moving animal models and ultimately human.
LIFEGATE is hosted in modern premises of the IPHT in Jena (Germany), featuring spacious optics laboratories, in-house fibre-manufacturing facilities as well as a support by mechanical workshops.
Successful candidates will work on fundamental and technological challenges of holographic endoscopy and development of new fibres for the purposes of bio-medical imaging.