Helmholtz Munich

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.

Oliver Bruns named full professor at the NCT/UCC in Dresden

Building on highly commendable achievements as Principal Investigator (PI) at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus in Munich, Oliver Bruns takes the next career step

– joining the faculty of the National Center for Tumor Diseases at the University Clinic in Dresden as a tenured full professor and head of the department for Functional Imaging in Surgical Oncology.

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

Prof. Dr. Oliver Bruns