PhD Student - Research Assistant in Medical Engineering | PhD Student (m/w/d)

Job Summary

This PhD student position at Helmut Schmidt University, within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering's Medical Engineering professorship, focuses on cutting-edge research in multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS). The successful candidate will contribute to a third-party funded project, investigating frequency-dependent propagation and imaging effects in SAS for seafloor classification and object discrimination. Day-to-day tasks involve signal processing for SAS, conducting academic activities, and general administrative work. This role offers a unique opportunity for further academic qualification (doctorate), working with an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) and SAS hardware, and collaborating with experts in an international research team, making it ideal for someone passionate about digital signal processing in hydro-acoustics.