Internship position in optical spectroscopy for life science applications

Facing the challenges of our time 

Help us grow and be more impactful! We are looking for a passionate person who wants to co-develop products for biotech and life science applications.

Monitoring of bioanalytes, such as glucose, is a crucial factor for the optimization of cell culture growth conditions and cell viability control in life science applications. It is vital for cell health that glucose levels are maintained within a certain range during cell growth. That is particularly relevant for cultures used for biopharmaceutical production, regenerative therapies, organ cultures, and personalized tissue engineering.

Our team of engineers at CSEM is developing a spectroscopic monitoring system for real-time detection of bioanalytes in cell culture bioreactors and organ-on-a-chip devices. The system has been developed and tested for commercialization in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.

The internship should last 6 months and can be part of a bachelor's or master's thesis.

Your mission

In this project, you will join a multidisciplinary R&D team and will work among experts in biotechnology, optics and systems engineering. You will gain practical experience working in chemical and optical laboratories, systems engeneering, and in spectral data processing. You will be involved in the validation of state-of-the-art spectroscopy setups for biomarker detection, preparation of materials for functional testing, experiments for real-time bioanalyte detection, and data analysis.

Your responsibilities

• Co-development and validation of an innovative spectroscopy setup
• Contribution to system design changes and discussion of improvements
• Sample preparation for experiments in a chemistry laboratory
• Working with custom software (in the Python programming language)
• Data analysis, presentation and interpretation of obtained results

 

Your profile

Know-how

• Bachelor or Master student in Biochemistry, Chemistry, or Physics
• Knowledge in optical spectroscopy, spectral data analysis
• Hands-on experience in a chemical or biological laboratories
• Programming skills are an advantage
• Fluent in English

 

Interpersonal skills

• You are ready to work in multidisciplinary and dynamic team
• You are wanting to collaborate and communicate with colleagues
• Are you inspired to advance state-of-the-art bio-analyte monitoring technology?

CSEM mission and values

Our mission is the development and transfer of innovative technologies to the Swiss industry. Our objective is to make an impact on our customers and on society at large in the fields of precision manufacturing, digital technologies and sustainable energy. Our strength is the excellence of our people, about 650 passionate specialists dedicated to innovation and technology transfer. We believe that strong values support the successful development of our organization as well as the harmonious and balanced development of all our employees.

We are

• A unique place between research and industry at the cutting edge of new technologies
• An innovative, non-profit, and employee-driven company
• A dynamic, multidisciplinary, and multicultural environment
• A solar team focused on enabling solutions to energy challenges for a sustainable world

Working@CSEM means

• being part of a passionate community
• incredible flexibility, attractive working conditions, and great opportunities of development
• benefit from a management style based on trust & feedback and that favors a work-life balance

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.

We look forward to receiving your complete application file via (CV, cover letter, certificates & diplomas) our job page.

Preference will be given to professionals applying directly.