HIP

A significant amount of research data produced within the Helmholtz Association are imaging data. In order to obtain such data, the association has a unique collection of imaging modalities at its disposal, ranging from nanoscale to global observations. Imaging science is an enabling technology used in all research fields of the association.

Although being an essential component of research at all centers of the Helmholtz Association, imaging science is not one of the central research topics of the association. Nevertheless, there exists a rich portfolio of expertise covering research on novel imaging modalities, experimental work using large-scale research faci-lities, expertise in mathematics and computer science related to imaging, as well as research in image analysis within specific fields of application.

The Helmholtz Imaging Platform HIP aims to leverage this potential, enabling synergies across imaging modalities and imaging applications.

The platform consists of two components:

• (i) a HIP Core Team providing scientific support and operating a technological platform supporting imaging science within the Helmholtz Association. The Core Team further organizes the
• (ii) HIP Imaging Network, comprising experts from all related disciplines within and outside of the Helmholtz Association.

An essential mode of operation of HIP is a funding mechanism for short-term cross-domain projects, which may follow high-risk, cutting edge ideas, or bridge the gap from an early implementation towards a profes-sional software tool. These projects have a seed character and shall develop prototypes solving problems in imaging sciences occurring within the application of imaging at the centers. Following a strategy of agile development, these solutions will further be explored by the imaging community at the Helmholtz Centers.

Overall, HIP aims at establishing the Helmholtz Association as a leading provider, developer and scientific user of cutting-edge imaging technology.