Internship Subjects

Practical internships for students of technical colleges (4-5 months)	Thesis supervisor
Mechanical and cryogenic engineering
Development of a special tool to improve the assembly of Helium flex-lines	V. Wimmer
Integration and characterization of the FORS-upgrade cryo-vacuum system	A. Fuerte
Modelling, analysis and test support related to vibration and control/structure interaction for the ELT telescope structure and hosted units	M. Müller P. Zuluaga Ramirez
Anti-vibration mounts for the ELT compressors
Electronic Engineering
Research internships for students of master studies at universities (5 months)
SW engineering

Accelerating the ELT wavefront simulations	Henri Bonnet
Design and development of a Simulation Framework for test and integration of telescope control systems.	N.Kornweibel
Application Framework Code Generation from SysML models	N.Kornweibel
Use and extension of OpenMBEE for use in realizing an Application Framework design in SysML	N.Kornweibel
Construction of a high bandwidth network sniffer based on commodity network cards for the verification of systems on the ELT real-time control network	N.Kornweibel
Study and prototyping the advantages of TSN extensions on Linux for time based traffic scheduling in the context of the M1 LCS deterministic network	N.Kornweibel J. Argomedo
Investigate control software architecture alternatives to state machines	H. Sommer
Investigate XDP sockets as lightweight alternative to DPDK	H. Sommer N. Benes
Optical engineering
Development of an Interferometric Bench for High-Contrast Imaging of Exoplanets	S. Lacour
ELT wavefront control	O. Pfuhl A. Kellerer
Quantum optics for astronomy	A. Kellerer O. Pfuhl
ELT M1 Segments	A. Kellerer E. Vernet
Development and testing of a Spatial Light Modulator as a phase screen generator for the high-order adaptive optics testbench GHOST	B.Engler
Development of a calibration tool generating sources for optical alignment of instruments	S. Tordo S. Guisard
STOP analysis (Structural, Thermal and Optical Performance analysis) of astronomical instruments: modelling and testing.	P. La Penna
Optical Reverse Optimisation of astronomical instruments.	P. La Penna
Computation of the atmospheric dispersion effect on the Point Spread Function of a telescope and astronomical instrument	P. La Penna
Computation of the Strehl ratio of a measured Point Spread Functions.	P. La Penna J. Kolb
Techniques for precision alignment and modelling of optomechanical systems through laser metrologies	S. Lévêque
Optical testing using a Spatial Light Modulator as a Programmable Computer Generated Hologram	S. Lévêque
Electronic Engineering
Customisation of design templates in Altium Designer	I. Molina Conde
Automation of an astronomical CCD testbench using Python	E. Müller
Adaptive optics and laser guide stars
Deep learning wavefront sensing with the CaNaPy LGS-AO facility	F. Pedreros Bustos
Machine Learning for High-Contrast Imaging	M. Kasper
Mechanical engineering
Cloud-based BIM data integration and real-time dashboards for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT)	P. Ferreira
Measuring the vacuum level and gas composition in typical vacuum chambers with different pumping principles by using a residual gas analyzer (mass spectrometer)	M. Haug
Study of the correlation between interferometric tests, force field measurement, modelling, and as built characteristics of the ELT M1 segments during polishing	M. Cayrel
Other student internships ESO HQ with a duration of 3-4 months	Supervisor
Assembly and testing the anti-vibration mounts for the ELT compressors	V. Wimmer