PhD student in control engineering (m/f/d)

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Enabler for smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips

Work where the morning arises. About 80 percent of all microchips worldwide are manufactured using ZEISS technologies. As the heart of any electronically controlled system, You are no longer to think away from our everyday life – whether in smartphones, smart homes or smart factories. ZEISS is a technology leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment. With high-precision lithography optics, photomask systems and solutions for process control, ZEISS enables the production of increasingly smaller, more powerful and more energy-efficient microchips – and thus decisively shapes the age of microelectronics and nanoelectronics with its innovations.

For the production of high-performance semiconductor chips using microlithography, we develop the world's most modern projection and illumination systems. Solutions based on regulated mechatronic concepts play an important role here Your role In your role as PhD student control technology (m/w/x), you will explore and compare future concepts for controlling projection and illumination optics in microlithography systems

To do this, you need to familiarize yourself with the corresponding models and the prior art

You will then develop existing control algorithms for fast and extremely accurate positioning of fine-mechanical components independently

The study and evaluation of new alternative control architectures completes their research work

As part of your research, you will publish results in relevant journals and specialist conferences

During their work, you will be supported by our internal experts as well as the supervisor professor of a regulatory engineering chair.

It is intended that you spend about half your working hours at the supervisor's chair

excellent university degree in mechanical engineering (in-depth control technology), in mechatronics, electrical engineering, technical cybernetics or a comparable discipline

knowledge in the field of control design (frequency and time range methods, extended control loop) and modeling of mechanical systems, very good MatLab knowledge

ideally first contact points with related disciplines such as actuators/sensors, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics or technical optics

an independent and systematic way of working, very good organizational and communicative skills, high resilience

Joy in work as part of an interdisciplinary team in a highly dynamic environment and a high level of commitment and readiness

very good knowledge of German and English in word and writing