Your profession: Biological technical assistant (m/f)

Professional activities

Biological technical assistants prepare experiments with animals, plants, cell cultures and micro-organisms. They also carry out the experiments. They monitor the experiments and record and analyse the results.

Fields of work

Biological technical assistants are employed

at research institutes, especially in the natural sciences, medicine or the environment
in companies in the chemical or pharmaceutical industry
in teaching and testing institutes in the public sector
in healthcare
in companies in the food industry

Regulation

This profession is not regulated in Germany.

The professional profiles are based on information from berufenet at the Federal Employment Agency and BIBB (Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training).