Teaching

Undergraduate Research Projects

Present:
Available projects at ECAP are listed on this page
Currently supervising: three Master theses, one Bachelor thesis

Completed theses:
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)

Undergraduate Lecture Courses

Physics I and II for BSc Clean Energy Processes (FAU)

Lectures and exercises for first year undergraduate engineering students.
Winter Semester 2023-2024: Mechanics, Waves and Thermodynamics
Summer Semester 2024: Electromagnetism, Optics, introductory nuclear and quantum physics

Physics of Stars (FAU)

Summer Semester 2023
Lectures and exercises on stellar evolution and nucleosynthesis

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 Masters 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”