The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research (MPI for Brain Research) in Frankfurt am Main steadily growing research institution in the field of basic biological / medical research and is specifically concerned with the functioning of circuits in the brain. The institute, which currently employs about 250 people, consists of scientific departments, research groups and several service facilities.
Our research group, Memory and Navigation Circuits (Group leader: Dr. Hiroshi Ito), investigates neural circuits that are necessary for animals to navigate to a desired location in the environment.
We are looking for a Technician (BTA/MTA/CTA) (m/f/d) to join our group in fulltime employment with a fixed-term contract until 31st March 2025.
Your responsibilities
You will work in close collaboration with our international researchers. The main tasks will be histology, including brain sectioning and immunohistochemistry, construction of multi-electrode microdrives, virus injection in the animal’s brain, as well as experimental support of our researchers.
Your profile
- Professional training as technician (BTA/MTA/CTA) (m/f/d), or a related qualification
- Prior experience in handling of rodents as well as knowledge in neuroscience are desirable
- Willingness to participate in animal experiments
- Ability to work in a structured manner, planning and coordination skills, multi-tasking
- Good command of the English language is required and basic conversational skill in German is desirable
- Energetic, highly motivated personality with strong communication skills and team spirit
We offer you
- Position with payment according to German TVöD (Collective Wage Agreement for Government Service Workers – Federal Government) with all benefits of the public service
- A highly interactive atmosphere and support within an international and collaborative researcher team in a state-of-the-art technical infrastructure
- Continuing education and training
- Company pension scheme
- Family service (in house baby and kids room, on-campus child day care center)
- Cafeteria and bistro in the institute building•Corporate Health Management (e.g. company doctor, sport offers)
- Good connections to public transportation
- Free parking on the institute’s premises
The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
The compatibility of work and family is very important to us; we offer the possibility of childcare in the kindergarten Kairos close to our institute.
Your application
Please send your full application, including a letter of motivation explaining how your qualifications and experience make you a good candidate for this job, together with a full CV, a reference letter (if available) and related certificates electronically as a single pdf file by July 10th, 2023 on our application platform.