Apply for a Research Internship at the Fischell Institute

The Robert E. Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices is searching for several paid undergraduate or graduate student research interns during the summer 2023 and potentially during the following academic year.

Research within the Institute is diverse but broadly employs interdisciplinary teams of researchers to answer specific fundamental questions and/or to solve specific technical problems. We envision that each researcher will work on an independent project that is embedded within a broader team effort.

Please note priority review will occur with applications submitted by March 24th, 2023 at 11:59 p.m. Contact fischellinstitute@umd.edu for questions.

Examples of specific projects include:

Clinical analysis: Measure the levels of oxidative stress in clinical serum samples collected from persons being treated for addiction and mental health disorders. (DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2021.102138)

Additive Manufacturing: Integrate advanced methods from electrochemistry and biology (e.g., protein engineering) to expand the emerging additive manufacturing method of electro-bio-fabrication (DOI: 10.1088/1758-5090/ab06ea).

Redox biology: Use redox as a modality to enable communication between biology and electronics (DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2019.2908582)

Material Science: Develop renewable materials (e.g., polysaccharides and phenolics) as a sustainable platform for electronic and interactive materials (DOI: 10.1002/admi.202202021).

Synthetic biology: Couple synthetic biology with electrochemistry to enable gene expression to be controlled electronically (DOI: 10.1038/s41565-021-00878-4).
Data analytics: Apply physics-based models (e.g., mathematical, molecular and engineering) with data-driven approaches to extract meaning from experimental measurements of complex biological systems (DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.2c02707).

Device Fabrication: Build electrochemical devices to sense chemical and biological activities, and to actuate responses.

Applicants should have a STEM major in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology, computer science, materials science, biochemistry or any of the engineering disciplines. The ideal candidate will: be excited to participate in team research; have the initiative to lead their own project; and possess the communication skills needed to efficiently explain their ideas and results to persons from other disciplines.

To apply, please upload to this link a one-page resume and a one-page description about yourself which answers the following questions: