IAESTE Internships

Location

Germany

Internship type

ON-SITE

Reference number

DE-2025-2079-4

Students Requirements

General discipline

Computer Science / Informatics
Electrical Engineering
Physics and Physical Sciences

Completed Years of Study

3

Fields of Study

Computer and Information Research
Experimental Physics/Applied Physics

Languages

English Excellent (C1, C2)

Required Knowledge and Experience

-

Other Requirements

-

Work Details

Duration

9 - 12 Weeks

Within These Dates

02.05.2025 - 15.08.2025

Holidays

NONE

Work Environment

-

Gross pay

992 EUR / month

Working Hours

40.0 per week / 8.0 per day

Living Lodging

Type of Accommoditation

IAESTE

Cost of lodging

500 EUR / month

Cost of living

992 EUR / month

Work Offered

Additional Info

Work description

Physics research projects usually generate a large amount of data, which requires very advanced readout systems for data acquisition and real-time signal processing. We develop such systems based on heterogeneous System on a Chip (SoC) devices with multiple processors, programmable logic (FPGA) and optionally even digital to analog and analog to digital converters on a single chip. These devices considerably minimize the development effort for new systems by allowing a large percentage of the hardware, firmware, and software to be reused in a variety of experiments.You have the opportunity to get an insight and to contribute to the development of state of the art readout electronics for a variety of physics experiments. We can offer a wide range of possible topics to meet your personal interests and skills.One central topic of our research is the development of room-temperature readout systems for cryogenic experiments. In particular, we focus on the control of qubits and readout of frequency multiplexed quantum sensors with excellent energy resolution, which requires the aforementioned SoC-based systems combined with a front-end card for signal conditioning. The programmable logic on the SoC contains custom firmware for signal generation and real-time processing of multiple parallel high-speed data streams. Current efforts are on scaling the systems for reading out several thousand of sensors respectively operating several tens of qubits simultaneously.Within these projects, you could contribute to custom hardware design, development of FPGA firmware and higher software layers or work with our in-house cryostat and high-end measurement equipment on characterization and evaluation of the readout electronics.

Deadline

04.05.2025