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”