Jessica Burgner-Kahrs

Jessica Burgner-Kahrs (born 1981) is a German roboticist who works in Canada as an associate professor at the University of Toronto.

The applications of this technology include minimally invasive surgery and servicing industrial machinery.

[2] She earned a diplom (the German equivalent of a master's degree) in computer science in 2006 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

[3] Her dissertation, Robot Assisted Laser Osteotomy, was supervised by Heinz Wörn.

[4] After postdoctoral research in the US at the Vanderbilt University Department of Mechanical Engineering, she returned to Germany in 2012 as a German Academic Exchange Service Fellow at Leibniz University Hannover.