{"id":3043,"date":"2026-03-16T17:49:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2026-03-27T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:49:48","slug":"sparc-member-selected-as-finalist-for-rig-outstanding-doctoral-thesis-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/en\/2026\/03\/16\/sparc-member-selected-as-finalist-for-rig-outstanding-doctoral-thesis-award\/","title":{"rendered":"SPARC Member Selected as Finalist for RIG Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SPARC member Lennart Karstensen was selected as a finalist for the RIG Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award at the 2nd German Robotics Conference in Cologne. Out of 27 nominations from universities and research institutions across Germany, five theses were shortlisted by an international selection committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Karstensen\u2019s doctoral thesis focused on simulation-based control learning for patient-specific autonomous navigation in endovascular interventions, addressing the challenge of transferring learning-based control from simulation to real-world medical robotics applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented at the RIG Heroes Award Night on March 12, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"faudir\">\r\n         <div class=\"format-compact\">\r\n        \r\n                <section class=\"format-compact-container\" aria-labelledby=\"section-title-054494-2016\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\r\n                                            <div class=\"profile-image-section\"> \r\n                            <figure itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"FM\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-140x93.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/files\/2024\/10\/2024-Portait_FMU-705x470.jpg 705w\" itemprop=\"contentUrl\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"2560\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1706\"><meta itemprop=\"dateCreated\" content=\"2023-10-18T11:02:31+00:00\"><meta itemprop=\"license\" content=\"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/imprint\"><\/figure>                        <\/div>\r\n                                            <header class=\"profile-header\">\r\n                       <h1 id=\"section-title-054494-2016\"><a itemprop=\"url\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esi.fau.de\/en\/faudir\/prof-dr-franziska-mathis-ullrich\/\"><span class=\"displayname\" itemprop=\"name\"><abbr title=\"Professor Doctor\" itemprop=\"honorificPrefix\">Prof. Dr.<\/abbr> <span class=\"namepart\"><span itemprop=\"givenName\">Franziska<\/span> <span itemprop=\"familyName\">Mathis-Ullrich<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1><p class=\"organisation_name\"><span class=\"organization\" itemprop=\"name\">Professorship for Surgical Planning and Robotic Cognition<\/span><\/p><p class=\"jobtitle\">Professors<\/p>                \r\n                     <\/header>\r\n                     <div class=\"profile-details\">   \r\n                                         <\/div>\r\n                <\/section>    \r\n                <\/div>\r\n\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPARC member Lennart Karstensen was selected as a finalist for the RIG Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award at the 2nd German Robotics Conference in Cologne. 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