Helmholtz Imaging is the central platform for imaging-related support within the Helmholtz Association. We help unlock the full potential of imaging across all research fields – from nanotechnology to aerospace research.
Image data are a substantial part of scientific research. Our goal is to improve access to the extensive imaging expertise, innovative modalities, methodological richness, and vast data treasures of Helmholtz and beyond. Anchored at DESY, DKFZ, and MDC, Helmholtz Imaging covers the entire imaging pipeline — from data acquisition and preparation to management, visualization and analysis — enabling holistic, cross-domain solutions.
We are part of the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Framework, and one of five platforms supporting data-driven science (alongside Helmholtz AI, HIDA, HIFIS, and HMC).
The Helmholtz Imaging team currently comprises 23 scientists, IT and management experts. It is supported by the Coordinators, the Steering Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee.
The structure of Helmholtz Imaging is tailored to achieve our ambitious goals. We tackle imaging problems with 3 high-level research units, we foster cross-field creativity with our collaborative projects and we empower scientists through our Support Hub, trainings and workshops.
Our three support units improve scalability & availability of methods and we leverage synergies via our network and software solutions.
Helmholtz Imaging Partners
Helmholtz Imaging is a collaboration of the DESY, DKFZ and MDC.
The Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY) is one of the world’s leading accelerator centers. DESY‘s research infrastructures include unique imaging facilities, featuring for example the brightest and shortest X-ray pulses and accelerated particles at record energies.
The German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) is a world’s leading cancer research center and the largest biomedical research institution in Germany. DKFZ offers the critical mass of leading scientists and excellent research infrastructures to provide a worldclass environment in imaging sciences.
The Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) is an internationally renowned biomedical research center in Berlin. MDC is devoted to collaborative and interdisciplinary research, covering an entire range of imaging methods across several scales in space and time and levels of analysis.
The Helmholtz Information & Data Science Platforms are a driving force for innovation across the Helmholtz Association. They empower cutting-edge research by harnessing the full potential of information and data sciences – connecting people, technologies, and ideas across disciplines.
The opportunities and challenges in information & data sciences impact all Helmholtz research fields, from energy and health to earth and environmental science. To meet them Helmholtz unites experts, supercomputers, algorithms, data treasures and services within five platforms: Helmholtz AI, Helmholtz Federated IT Services, Helmholtz Imaging, Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy, and Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration.
Together, these platforms connect research communities, provide services and funding, and foster collaboration across the Helmholtz Association.
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Working for Helmholtz Imaging means working for Germanys largest research organization: the Helmholtz Association. The Helmholtz Association has launched Helmholtz Imaging – an interdisciplinary platform which advances imaging modalities, methods and tools nationwide for all Helmholtz centers in collaboration with its external and university partners.
The collaborating centers DESY, DKFZ and MDC bring scientist and engineers in the Helmholtz Association together to promote and develop imaging science and to foster synergies across imaging modalities and applications within the Helmholtz Association. You will be working in one of our local teams, but being part of Helmholtz Imaging implies working together to generate the greatest possible added value for the imaging community at Helmholtz.
Look forward to unique working environments on our international research campuses. We particularly value appreciative interaction with each other and the well-being of our employees. You will benefit from our family-friendly and collegial atmosphere, our established health management, occupational pension provision and much more.
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