At the chair we supervise Bachelor's and Master's theses, mainly in the fields of climate research and climate impact research, biogeography, geoecology and landscape ecology, geographic development research, food systems, agricultural geography, and generally human-environment relations.
If you are interested, contact us at an early stage to discuss your proposed topic and develop a concept, or apply for thesis topic offers.

Bachelor's Theses (as of September 2023)

1. Stability or productivity? Insights on yield stabilizing management strategies from long-term agronomic trials.
2. Analysis of national adaptation and monitoring systems and objectives and motivations of different stakeholders in Uganda and Ethiopia.

Master's Theses (as of September 2023)

1. Uncertainty in onset and duration of crop growing periods globally.
2. Phenology trends in sub-Saharan Africa.
3. Effects of drought on food production, land use and household livelihood (co-supervision with Prof. Dr. Gernot Müller, Institute of Mathematics)
4. “Hawai’ian Food Systems Resilience” (co-supervision with Dr. Andrea Thorenz, Institute of Materials Resource Management)

There aren't any completed Final Theses yet.