Undergraduate Research Projects
Present:
Available projects at ECAP are listed on this page
Currently supervising: three Master theses, two Bachelor theses
Completed theses:
Maximilian Bohle — Bachelor thesis (January 2026)
Energy-dependent morphology of the Pulsar Wind Nebulae HESS J1303-631
Kavan Purohit — Master thesis (October 2025)
Gain Characterisation of ANTARES PMTs for SWGO
Jonas Meyer — Bachelor thesis (September 2025)
Looking for very high energy gamma-ray emission associated with PSR J1809-2332
Darius Grüber — Master thesis (February 2025)
Analysis of two extended gamma-ray structures around pulsars
Lukas Großpietsch — Bachelor thesis (October 2024)
Analysis of the IC 443 Supernova Remnant with H.E.S.S. Data
Tobias Müller — Bachelor thesis (June 2024)
Disentangling Enigmatic Gamma-Ray Sources
Mario Engelmann — Master thesis (November 2023)
Potential Detectability of Gamma-Ray Halos around Spiral Galaxies
Thomas Lang — Master thesis (September 2023)
Satellite Trails in H.E.S.S. Data
Darius Grüber — Bachelor thesis (September 2022)
Analysis and interpretation of three composite VHE gamma-ray sources
Nick Scharrer — Bachelor thesis (October 2022)
Modelling Gamma-Ray Spectra of SNRs to predict their Detectability by SWGO
Javier Gómez de la Gándara Pérez — Bachelor thesis (July 2020)
Predicting the future pulsar wind nebula population in the TeV sky
October 2022-February 2023: “Analysis of very high energy gamma-ray emission in the region of HESS J1828-099” (internship)
June-August 2019: “Predicting the future pulsar wind nebula population in the TeV sky” (internship)
August-December 2019: “Muon calibration algorithms for the Cherenkov Telescope Array” (internship)
Lecture Courses
Physics of Stars (FAU)
Summer Semester 2023, Winter Semester 2024-2025 & 2025-2026
Lectures and exercises on stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis
Physics I and II for BSc Clean Energy Processes (FAU)
Lectures and exercises for first year undergraduate chemical engineering.
Winter Semester 2023-2024: Mechanics, Waves and Thermodynamics
Summer Semester 2024: Electromagnetism, Optics, introductory nuclear and quantum physics
Methods of Data Analysis II (FAU)
Winter Semester 2022-2023
Lectures and exercises on minimisation techniques and machine learning, followed by an extended data analysis project.
PHY465: Experimental Astroparticle Physics (UZH)
Spring Semester 2020 – Four lectures on cosmic rays out of a fourteen lecture course.
Cosmic Ray Production
Cosmic Ray Propagation
Cosmic Ray Detection using Air Showers
Cosmic Ray Detection using Satellites
Accompanying Notes
PHY213: Nuclear and Particle Physics II (UZH)
Spring Semester 2020
Guest lecture on cosmic ray detection in ground-based and satellite experiments
Graduate Research
Autumn Semester 2019 and 2020: (UZH)
PhD student seminar “Astrophysical Thinking”