Current ESO active R&D projects:

• Advanced visible and infrared detectors for astronomical instrumentation (modelling, testing, development of CMOS fast detectors, curved detectors...);
• Gigahertz receivers, cryogenic first-stage amplifiers for ALMA (development & testing);
• Adaptive optics and related components including laser guide stars, deformable mirrors, wavefront sensing, tomographic techniques, interactions with segmented mirrors...;
• System simulation and modelling including deformable mirrors, telescope seeing effects, exposure time calculators, instruments, model-based system engineering;
• Optical metrology and photonics for (sub-)micrometric large structure characterisation, interferometry;
• Astrophotonics and integrated optics;
• Mechanics and cryogenics;
• Real-time computing.

• To be eligible to the internship, you have to be registered in a university or technical college and the internship has to be part of your studies.
• Dynamic young individuals ready to take an active part in the ESO R&D projects with a good deal of team spirit, curiosity and eagerness to learn.