Master's Thesis Topics in AEG

Research topics AEG students recently focused on in their Master's thesis, sorted by work groups (year)

Testing the impact of natural climate variability on land carbon uptake and emission pathways in an earth system model (2025)
Impact of Volcanic Forcing on Ocean Carbon Uptake (2025)

Identification and quantifiation of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in human hair (2024)

Simulation, Process Optimization and Techno-Economic Analysis of Power-To-Protein (PTP) using Aspen Plus® (2024)
Optimizing the Organic Solvent: Towards Sustainable MCCAs Production (2025)

Investigation of Hydrodynamics and Groundwater Recharge in Carbonate Rock with Ground Penetrating Radar (2024)

Environmental Mineralogy / Prof. Stefan Haderlein

Towards Vertical Wind Measurement by Multi-Rotary Wings (2025)
Correction of DiAL-Derived Vertical Profiles Using an Artificial Neural Network (2026)
Arcitic Relative Humidity under Global Warming: Connections to Sea Ice Loss, Atmospheric Stabiligy and Cloud Processes in CMIP6 Models (2026)

On the value of slug tracer injections and the environmental tracer radon for observing hyporheic exchange (2024)

Highway runoff: Tracking particle-asociated and dissolved organic contaminants and mixture effects in a retention pond and a receiving stream (2022)

Interactions between Biochar and Biogel affecting Sugar Dynamics for Carbon Stabilization in Soil (2026)
Managing Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration by Manipulating the Microbial Carbon Pump (2026)

Geomicrobiology / Prof. Andreas Kappler

Influence of Oryza Sativa Root Exudates on Autotrophic Nitrate Redducing Iron Oxidizing Enrichment Culture (2025)
Assessing the Metabolic Flexibility of the Pollutant-Degrading Ochrobactrum (2025)
Degradation of the organic carbon associated with Biogenic Iron (Oxyhydr)oxides by fermenting cultures enriched from Lake Constance (2025)
Arsenic Mobilization in Vietnamese Groundwater Driven by Microbial Fe(III) Reduction Coupled to Methane or Organic Carbon Oxidation (2026)
Spatial and seasonal gradient structure methan-cycling communities and greenhouse gas emissions in permafrost thaw ponds at Stordalen Mire (2026)

Hydrogeochemistry / Prof. Peter Grathwohl

Sorption of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in colloidal activated carbon (CAC) under varying environmental conditions: Effect of PFAS concentration, ironic strength, DOC with natural and artificial origin, and pH (2025)
Modeling BTEX release from gasoline and diffusive transport in heterogeneous till (2025)
Assessment of zwitterionic PFAS sorption in soils and pure soil components (2026)

Hydrogeology / Prof. Olaf Cirpka

Using deconvolution techniques to account for river-stage fluctuations in pumping test analysis (2025)
Investigations of Non-Ideal Pumping Regimes for Estimating Hydraulic Properties of an Aquifer (2025)
Hydraulic Characterisation of Aquifer in Ammer Valley (2025)
Comparing Variants for slope stabilistion methods in cost estimate in Baden-Württemberg, Germany (2025)
Machine Learning-Based Modeling of Karst Spring Discharge Using Weather Data (2025)
Proxy Parameters to Mimic Subsurface Cutoff Walls in Coarse Model Grids (2026)
Infiltration Processes in Medellín's Dunite Pseudokarst System: Role of Volcanic Ash Layer (2026)

Simulation-Based Inference of Surface Mass Balance History from Ice Sheet Stratigraphy Detected by Radar Measurements (2024)
Inferring Part of Greenland's Basal Conditions from Airborne Radar Data of the 1970s (2025)