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Helmholtz Munich / Carolin Jacklin

Prof. Dr. Oliver Bruns

Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

Research Area

Vision: short-wave infrared region (SWIR) is the future of optical imaging

My vision is that in 10 years, SWIR imaging is going to be the gold standard for preclinical and clinical imaging. Every research center and every major clinic will have SWIR detection systems and use novel contrast agents like the ones which I plan to develop with my team and collaborators. This new generation of optical imaging techniques will enable preclinical contact-free imaging in awake and behaving mice and in the future clinical imaging with single cell sensitivity and penetration depth up to centimeters.

Professional Background

Since 2022

full professor at the NCT/UCC in Dresden

since 2018

Principal Investigator Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Munich

2015

Research Scientist (Senior Scientist), Department of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2011

Postdoctoral Associate in the group of Prof. Moungi Bawendi at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2009

Senior Scientist at Heinrich-Pette-Institute Hamburg/Germany

Honors and Awards

  • Emmy Noether Group leader DFG
    2018

  • EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
    2011 - 2013

  • DAAD fellowship (declined in favour of EMBO Long-term Fellowship)
    2010

  • ‘Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’ Fellowship
    2006 - 2009

  • Travel grant for the World Molecular Imaging Congress
    2017

  • EMBL Advanced Training Centre Fellowship (Travel grant) and Dr. Wilhelmy-GSO-Fellowship (Travel grant)
    2015

  • SPOT award by MIT School of Science and Travel grant by MIT PDA
    2014

  • Karl-Heinz Hölzer Award for Interdisciplinary Medical Research (PhD-Thesis)
    2010

  • Young Investigator Award, 77th European Atherosclerosis Congress, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
    2008

  • Young Investigator Award, 30th annual Meeting of European Lipoprotein Club, Tutzing, Germany
    2007

  • Award for the best diploma thesis in Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
    2006

  • Spokesman of the Student Committee of the 'GBM' (German Biochemical Society)
    2004 - 2008

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Publications

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