Bachelor & Master Theses

Study and Career

Bachelor & Master Theses

Interested in a bachelor or master thesis?

Direct contact with individual staff members at the institute is also possible. If you are not an undergraduate student from Heidelberg University or neighbouring universities, please get in touch via email with a staff member. Below is a subset of possible Bachelor / Master Projects which are available, and for which the MPIA is currently seeking candidates.

	Titel	Type	Dept.	Supervisor	Start
1	Magneto Rotational Instability in Protoplanetary disks	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
2	Linear stability analysis of proto-planetary accretion disks	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
3	Formation of giant planets from large planetesimals	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
4	Mapping our Milky Way	M/B	GC	Hans-Walter Rix	anytime
5	Lucky Imaging of Solar System Planets	M	PSF	Stefan Hippler, Wolfgang Brandner	anytime
6	The enviroment of AGN host galaxies in CARS	M/B	GC	Bernd Husemann	anytime
7	Experiments on interstellar ice evolution	M/B	PSF	Cornelia Jäger	starting from spring-time
8	Modelling stellar spectral line formation	M/B	GC	Anish Amarsi	anytime
9	The build-up of galactic nuclei	M/B	GC	Nadine Neumayer	anytime
10	Stray light analysis of METIS, an IR instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope	M/B	PSF	Peter Bizenberger	asap
11	Galactic archeology	M/B	GC	Maria Bergemann	anytime
12	Stellar spectroscopy	M/B	GC	Maria Bergemann	anytime
13	Stellar physics and cosmic nucleosynthesis	M/B	GC	Maria Bergemann	anytime
14	Astronomical instrumention at highest angular resolution (ELT, AO, VLTI, ...)	M/B	GC	Jörg-Uwe Pott	anytime
15	Studying black hole environments (observational astronomy)	M/B	GC	Jörg-Uwe Pott	anytime
16	Turbulence proto-planetary accretion disks	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
17	Modeling dust in proto-planetary accretion disks	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
18	Giant Planet Formation via Disk Fragmentation	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
19	Baroclinic Instability in Protoplanetary disks	M/B	PSF	Hubert Klahr	now
20	Advancing Adaptive Optics for the E-ELT: astronomical instrumentation	M/B	GC	Jörg-Uwe Pott	now
21	Measuring quasars at highest NIR resolution	M/B	GC	Jörg-Uwe Pott	now
22	Exoplanet characterization studies	M/B	PSF	Néstor Espinoza	anytime
23	Chemical evolution inference - neutron star merger	M	GC	Jan Rybizki, Hans-Walter Rix	anytime
24	Chemical evolution of planet-forming disks	M	PSF	Dr. Dmitry Semenov	anytime
25	Stellar halos and stellar streams of disc galaxies	M/B	GC	Tobias Buck	anytime
26	Dark matter halos in hydrodynamical simulations	M/B	PSF	Tobias Buck	anytime
27	Exoplanets Atmospheres: Retrieving Molecular Fingerprints in High Resolution Spectra	M	PSF	Paul Mollière	anytime

Further Opportunities

In addition to the projects listed above, very talented and motivated students are also encouraged to directly contact Prof. Dr. Henning for the PSF department, and Prof. Dr. Meisenheimer or any other staff member for the GC department. Specially tailored projects can usually be arranged for exceptional candidates.