Bachelor and Master theses
We regularly supervise Master and Bachelor theses, and are happy to collaborate on PhD and postdoc projects. Please have a look at our projects and publications to get an idea what topics interest us. These include:
- Global change impacts on biodiversity: range and community shifts, invasive species
- Species distribution modelling
- Spatially explicit dynamic population models and dispersal models
- Occupancy modelling (static and dynamic)
- Automatic monitoring: integrating audio detection and image recognition
- Movement ecology and animal migration: migration phenology, seasonal niches, home range strategies
Most of our work is based on statistics and/or simulation models. Thus, a base understanding of R programming or C++ programming as well as statistics is prerequisite for working in our team.
When approaching us for a thesis topic, please provide some more information about yourself, e.g. study programme, previous experience in R and statistics (or any other relevant skills), and your time frame. Please be aware that the working language is english.
Current Bachelor and Master theses
- Natalie Heinrich: Master thesis on Uncertainty in extinction risk classification based on SDM. Main superviser: Damaris Zurell
- Marlene Hodde: Bachelor thesis on Vegetation composition in Arctic drained lake basins. Main supervisor: Juliane Wolter
- Ollie Kuznetsova: Master thesis on Forecasting the distribution of hanta virus and its vectors in Europe. Main superviser: Damaris Zurell
- Finn-Ole Ullmann: Bachelor thesis on Chemotaxonomy of common peat-forming plant species of Arctic wetlands. Main supervisor: Juliane Wolter
Open Bachelor theses
- Topics related to audidetection and avian sound diversity, e.g. in Park Sanssouci
Open Master theses
- Topics related to static or dynamic distribution models, climate change effects on biodiversity, invasions, dispersal, effect of interspecific interactions on species distributions, etc.