Master thesis - Optical sensing and smart instruments for robotic vitreoretinal surgery

Your Role

Motivation of the work Turning today’s research into tomorrow’s applications - together With a clear focus on user needs, the ZEISS Innovation Hub @ KIT explores new technology and application fields, enabling the transformation of ideas into innovations. Here, students, researchers, entrepreneurs, and ZEISS employees meet at eye level and practice an open-innovation culture. For our team of researchers and engineers, we seek for a student to support our research and experiments for optical sensing, with a focus on smart instruments & optical coherence tomography (OCT) for medical robotics.
We offer

• Young, motivated team with a large and active student community
• Agile work environment with the possibility to work on various tasks for innovative medical applications
• Option for internship before the thesis to better understand the research topic
• Modern office culture with flexible working hours. You will
• Develop a cutting-edge proof-of-concept demonstrator for a smart instrument, utilizing multiple optical sensing modalities to enable medical robotics for vitreoretinal surgical applications
• Design and setup a proof-of-concept optical system and detection hardware to translate into a smart sensing device
• Utilize machine-learning algorithms to analyze data generated by optical sensing-based hardware and software
• Screen scientific literature to tailor your solution to drive the state-of-the-art with your research project
• Conduct and evaluate experiments based on free space and fiber based optical systems

Your Profile

• A bachelor’s and are enrolled in a master’s program in engineering, computer science, physics, or similar, preferably with a specialization in optics & photonics
• Good understanding of the fundamentals of optics and smart instruments
• Programming knowledge in at least one of the following: Python, Matlab or C/C++
• First hands-on experience with optical systems and signal processing algorithms
• Ideally experience in the development and integration of data acquisition electronics and scanners
• Ideally experience in fiber based or free space optical benchtop systems
• Excellent organization, problem-solving & communication skills (English and/or German)
• Passion for innovation and enthusiasm for new technologies as well as motivation to work in agile, interdisciplinary teams

Your ZEISS Recruiting Team:
Franziska Gansloser