Internships
Exciting learning opportunities at the edge of Business and Science
Fluorescent microscopes are a key instrument for scientific learning in the health and life sciences. Image restoration and analysis are crucial tools to extract knowledge from the microscopic data. SVI is an internationally recognized specialist in image restoration and we work at the edge of scientific developments to enable easy and reliable image analysis for the life sciences.
Traineeships take place at our headquarters in Hilversum, conveniently located near Hilversum Sportpark train station and close to the highway exit. The minimum duration for internships is 4 months. We also have a limited number of short projects of ~2 month duration available.
Science, Science and Communication internships
Students with a background in biology, biophysics, or science communication typically are eligible for this internship direction. Currently there are no projects open for Science and Science cummunication internships. Nonetheless, highly motivated students are invited to write to jobs at svi.nl as occasionally a suitable project presents itself.
Life science and business Internships
About SVI Scientific Volume Imaging (SVI) is a world leader in fluorescent microscopy image analysis. Fluorescence microscopy is a work-horse in the ongoing life science revolution. Yet microscopic images are meaningless without the proper tools to restore and analyze them. Having intimate knowledge of technological drivers and key players in the market, SVI is poised to play an increasingly important role in this growing market.
Internship topic In this internship, you will be focussing on developing commercial opportunities in the developmental biology market. Developmental biology studies life at the level of tissues and organs, or even whole organisms. This market includes 1) organoids and organ-on-a-chip application, 2) zebrafish, drosophila and C. Elegans imaging, 3) whole tissue imaging applications. More than other research segments, this market yields novel insights that are highly applicable in the pharmaceutical industry. Due to the large size of the images, this market has a lot of demand for technological advanced images processing, which SVI is uniquely able to provide.
Daily activities You will be supporting one of our experienced scientific imaging consultants in their daily sales and marketing activities. This includes 1) generating sales opportunities by means of contacting new or existing prospects, 2) sharpening your value proposition by understanding the specific needs of your segments and 3) generating sales and marketing materials that are in support thereof. In general, we look to tune the internship to the applicants unique talents and are open to initiatives from their side. As you will be directly supporting one of our consultants, this ensures a good supervision and diversity of tasks.
Requirements
- HBO or MSc University students
- Prior experience in life sciences and preferably in fluorescence microscopy
- Interest in Sales and Marketing
Job opportunities after this internship This internships prepares you for the Scientific Imaging Concultant track within SVI. SVI is actively recruiting Scientific Imaging Consultants and a succesful internship may lead to a job offer when we see a good match with SVI's needs. In general this internship provides you with a thorough skillset for commercial and business roles in the life science industry.
Our current Development assignments are intended for Master students (e.g. Scientific Programming with Mathematical or Physics background) and for Bachelor students with a Minor in computational sciences, both from within the EU.
If you have a related topic that is not specifically mentioned in the list below, send us a short description so that we can see whether it fits with our interest. Traineeships related to the topics mentioned below can start immediately.
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2. Modeling of shading patterns in SPIM microscopy language: C/Tcl level: Bachelors/Masters
3. 'Casual' web-based colocalization analysis language: Tcl/PHP level: Informatics, Bachelors
4. AI, Deep learning Object Tracking and Object Analysis language: C/CUDA level: Masters
5. SFP volume rendering on GPUs language: C/CUDA level: Masters
6. Semi-interactive, web-based PSF distiller language: PHP/JavaScript/Tcl level: Bachelors/Masters
7. CUDA implementation of image processing operations language: C, CUDA level: Bachelors/Masters
Interested? Send your CV and motivation to jobs at svi.nl, more contact information here