The rapid technological developments of the last two decades have led the scientific community to achieve biological and medical discoveries at an ever-increasing pace. Today, outstanding advances in imaging technologies such as electron (EM) and light microscopy (LM) enable us to directly visualise the molecular machinery of life at an unprecedented level of detail. As seeing is understanding, cutting-edge microscopy is becoming a central technology platform for the life sciences. However, only a minority of scientists have access to the latest imaging technologies as the devices are expensive and complex in their set-up, maintenance and usage.

The EMBL Imaging Centre is a new EMBL service unit at Heidelberg, Germany for the highest resolution EM and LM technologies and the combination thereof (correlative technologies), including academically developed methods not yet commercially available. The main mission of the EMBL Imaging Centre is to rapidly make the most advanced microscopy technologies available as a synergistic service portfolio to the international user community from both academia and industry to enable new ground-breaking research that crosses the scales of biology.

The EMBL Imaging Centre is always looking for highly motivated outstanding people to join the team. All interested should be fascinated by imaging technologies, interested in providing service to the wide user community, and curious about how to combine service provision with technology development in the latest imaging technologies. Current vacancies can be found on EMBL’s job opportunity page – keyword “EMBL Imaging Centre”.

Speculative applications of researchers from all disciplines including your CV can be sent any time to the EMBL Imaging Centre Programme Manager, Stephanie Alexander.

• September 2021 – Rhein-Neckar Zeitung (in German): Hier gibt es über 1000 schlaue Wissenschaftler
• July 2021 – Federal Ministry of Education and Research News: New life science Imaging Centre preparing for user access
• June 2021 – Rhein-Neckar Zeitung (in German): Neues Imaging Centre am EMBL geht in Betrieb
• June 2021 – Mannheimer Morgen (in German): „Schaufenster der Forschung“ füllt sich bis Herbst mit Leben
• April 2019 – Rhein-Neckar Zeitung (in German) on the Foundation stone laying ceremony: ‘Imaging Centre wird für 48 Millionen Euro gebaut’
• May 2018 – Internationale Bauausstellung IBA (in German) on the EMBL Imaging Centre project: ‘#070 EMBL Imaging Centre Projektuebersicht’

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Generous support to establish the EMBL Imaging Centre was provided by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research and the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Wuerttemberg, donations by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation and HeidelbergCement, as well as our industry partners Carl Zeiss Microscopy, Leica Microsystems and Thermo Fisher Scientific.