Postdoctoral Researcher – Agentic Correlative Image Analysis for BlueMaterials in Hamburg

Postdoctoral Researcher – Agentic Correlative Image Analysis for BlueMaterials

Job ID: 1058 – 2026/MB3

Location: Rostock

Application deadline: 23September,2026

Join the Cluster of Excellence BlueMat: Water-Driven Materials (www.tuhh.de/bluemat) and collaborate with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team that combines science, sustainability, and technology to create a better future. Help shape the next generation of sustainable materials inspired by nature’s most powerful resource: water.

Tasks

• Design and implement the agentic framework including task planning, tool use and function calling, and self‑evaluation loops that orchestrate existing image‑analysis modules.
• Build a natural‑language interface so BlueMat researchers can run correlative analyses without writing code.
• Automate image registration and enable automated extraction of morphological features (e.g., porosity, tortuosity, connectivity) and fluid flow characteristics from 2D and 3D images resulting from magnetic resonance, X‑ray and electron images.
• Integration of motion analysis and digital volume correlation processing of images in preparation for image‑based modelling.
• Provide individual support for researchers across BlueMat in solving image‑analysis challenges, especially segmentation and quantitative extraction.

Requirements

• PhD in computer science, physics, materials science, applied mathematics or a related field.
• Experience in building LLM‑based agent systems.
• Strong background in image processing and analysis, including deep learning experience with correlative imaging workflows and 2D/3D registration techniques.
• Strong programming skills in Python and/or C/C++.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in an interdisciplinary environment.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Proven project management skills are highly desirable.
• Willingness to travel regularly between Rostock and Hamburg (DESY).

Content‑related enquiries regarding this position can be directed to Prof. Dr. Berit Zeller‑Plumhoff (berit.zeller-plumhoff@hereon.de).

Benefits

• International Welcome Office with guest accommodation
• 6weeks holiday per year; company holidays between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Social benefits according to the collective agreement of the public service
• Remuneration up to EG13 (according to EntgO Bund)
• Very good work‑life balance; options for mobile and flexible work
• A well‑connected research campus (public transport) and best networking opportunities, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket if certain conditions are met (job ticket)
• Individual opportunities for further training
• Excellent technical infrastructure and modern workplace equipment
• Operational Health Management, e.g. Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Our offer an exciting and varied job in a research center with around 1,000 employees from more than 60 nations International Welcome Office with guest accommodation.

The Helmholtz‑Zentrum Hereon conducts cutting‑edge international research for a changing world: Around 1,000 employees contribute to the tackling of climate change, the sustainable use of the world's coastal systems and the resource‑compatible enhancement of the quality of life.

Institute of Metallic Biomaterials: In the Institute of Metallic Biomaterials new titanium and magnesium based implant materials for regenerative medicine are developed, produced and characterized. Researchers investigate the factors influencing the process chain and properties. In addition, the interaction of material and tissue is studied in the laboratory and at the synchrotron.

Equal opportunity is an important part of our personnel policy. We would therefore strongly encourage qualified women to apply for the position.

Severely disabled persons and those equaling severely disabled persons who are equally suitable for the position will be considered preferentially within the framework of legal requirements.

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