Jessica Burgner-Kahrs
The University of Oxford | 2018-Present
Jessica Burgner-Kahrs is Professor at the Leibniz University in Hannover, where she conducts research at the Hannover Centre for Mechatronics leading the Laboratory for Continuum Robotics. Burgner-Kahrs dedicated her doctoral and post-doctoral research to improving the technology used in surgery, e.g. developing a new robotics system for automatic bone cutting or minimally-invasive brain tumor removal. For her innovative research contributions in continuum robotics she was awarded a number of national awards and scholarships, including the Heinz Maier-Leibniz Prize 2015 given to young academics for their outstanding achievements, as well as the Lower Saxony Science Award 2014. Burgner-Kahrs is appointed member of the Young Academy (Junge Akademie), a joint project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Discipline
Cognitive NeuroscienceArea of Research
Neuroplasticity and Learning
ORCID
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9185-3970Google Scholar
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