FEMtech Internship “Ground Truth Data for Crop Phenomics“ (Incl. the possibility for a Master's Thesis)

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for applied research, we are dedicated to make substantial contributions to solving the major challenges of our time, climate change and digitalisation. To achieve our goals, we rely on our specific research, development and technology competencies, which are the basis of our commitment to excellence in all areas. With our open culture of innovation and our motivated, international teams, we are working to position AIT as Austria's leading research institution at the highest international level and to make a positive contribution to the economy and society.

Our Center for Health & Bioresources  invites applications for an internship position for our location in Tulln (in immediate vicinity to Vienna) in the Competence Unit Bioresources , where new technologies and tools are developed aimed at increasing the exploitation of plant and microbial resources.
Global food security is one of the key challenges of this century with a dramatic increase of the current human population and the ongoing climate change affecting crop quality and yield. Especially drought poses a threat to the yield of wheat production, and breeding aims at creating more drought-tolerant varieties. To support breeder, the project WheatVIZ aims at accelerating the breeding process via cutting-edge genomics and UAV-based phenotyping by integrating explainable AI. Throughout this internship, you will closely work with our experts and will support the data collection campaign on the field site in Obersiebenbrunn and will be responsible for their subsequent analysis. Thus, one key aspect of this internship will be data science and bioinformatics.