Josefine Schreiter successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Human-Robot Interaction for Robotic Ultrasound: Investigating Concepts for Manual Control”, on October 29, 2026. Her work addresses a central question: how can clinicians best guide a robotic ultrasound system? She developed and evaluated two techniques for continuous end effector control, teleoperation and a touchless approach, and compared them with hand-guiding in controlled studies. The work emerged within the second funding phase (2020–2025) of the research campus STIMULATE, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). It was part of the subproject iCT, which works towards interventional CT as a curative treatment for liver tumours and develops, among other things, a lightweight robot-guided ultrasound probe. The thesis committee included Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Preim (University of Magdeburg), Prof. Dr. Christian Hansen (University of Magdeburg), Prof. Dr. Franziska Mathis-Ullrich (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Prof. Dr. Jannis Hagenah (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen) and Prof. Dr. Hans-Knud Arndt (University of Magdeburg). Congratulations to Josefine on completing this phase of her academic career.
