Jan Schultze

Student Research Assistant, Team DUST at the ESA Space Resources Challenge 2025

• •Built the bucket elevator that lifts regolith from the bucket-wheel excavator up to the centrifugal sieve, where it drops into the collection containers
• •Built the teleoperation mast with camera on a pan-tilt unit and created its URDF model for the ROS-based teleoperation setup

Working Student

• •Prepared bookkeeping (pre-accounting); produced video edits and social media content; drafted app concepts

Portfolio, projects and learning notes

• •Next.js, React, TypeScript, Three.js / WebGL, Notion API as CMS, Vercel; content on robotics and AI

Hardware PLM platform (solo project, MVP)

• •Browser-native 3D viewer with a CSG-based visual diff for CAD revisions, running client-side from GLB files (Three.js, Next.js)

Smart City OS for VEGA

• •Built the IoT sensor hardware for a tree-watering monitor (green / yellow / red) and presented the solution.

• •Written for the KIT seminar Bionic Algorithms and Robot Technologies

Mini Scale Automated Warehouse at KIT

• •Worked in a team to automate a small-scale warehouse with stationary and mobile robots (Linux, Git, Docker, ROS2, Python)

at Camelstack, in cooperation with KIT IFL · grade: 1.0

• •Prototype of an electric suspension railway (3D-printed parts, ESP controller, stepper motor drive, Python scripts)

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · current grade: 1.8

• •focus: robotics, automation, AI

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) · grade: 2.3

• •Erasmus semester at University of Thessaly, Greece (09/2024 – 02/2025)

Gymnasium Karlsbad · grade: 1.7