Bachelor and Master Theses

If you are interested in joining our group for a bachelor, master thesis or an internship please explore our research and contact the corresponding group leader. We are offering theses that span the range of interests in our group, that is theses that tackle questions coming from the physical, through biogeochemical all the way to the classical ecological realms.

Please contact us well ahead of your desired starting date so that we can develop a topic together with you. We are also presenting the currently available thesis topics at the IBP Master thesis fair in the spring semester, and in the IAC master thesis orientation events in the fall semester.

In order to give you an impression of the type of thesis that you can pursue with us, we give you here a list of recently completed theses.

Zhang Siyi: "Biomes Partitioning and Network Analysis of Marine Plankton" (supervised by Meike Vogt, Urs Hofmann Elizondo, and Alexandre Schickele)

Aline Schneuwly: "Impact of the 2023 Marine Heatwave on the North Atlantic Carbon Sink” (supervised by Luke Gregor, Jens Müller, and Nicolas Gruber)

Xinhang Li: "Trends In Marine Plankton Biodiversity over the 21st Century under Different Climate Change Scenarios” (supervised by Meike Vogt, Fabio Benedetti, and Dominik Eriksson)

Danling Ma: "Long-Term Trends and Drivers of Global Ocean Acidification from 1982 to 2020” (supervised by Luke Gregor and Nicolas Gruber)

Andrea von Langen Roson: "Variability Of Water Column Denitrification and its Drivers in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zones" (supervised by Eike Köhn, Nicolas Gruber, and Jana Harri)

Giacomo Poli: "The potential of machine learning algorithms for mapping microplastic concentrations in the ocean” (supervised by Meike Vogt, Fabio Benedetti, and Dominik Eriksson)

Marcel Scheiwiller: "Compound events of temperature and acidification extremes in the California Current System” (supervised by Flora Desmet and Nicolas Gruber)

Nielja Knecht: "The impact of zooplankton calcifiers on the marine carbon cycle” (supervised by Meike Vogt, Fabio Benedetti, and urs Hofmann Elizondo)