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
Electronic Engineering
Research internships for students of master studies at universities (5 months)
SW engineering

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
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 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
Computation of the Strehl ratio of a measured Point Spread Functions.	P. La Penna J. Kolb
Electronic Engineering
Customisation of design templates in Altium Designer	I. Molina Conde
Automated detector Point Spread Function (PSF) measurements	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
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