Supervised theses

Below is a collection of Bachelor and Master theses that I have supervised at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg.

  • Anita Deka Baruah: Improvements to the Reconstruction of Monoscopic Events in H.E.S.S., with Application to the Analysis of a Flare of the Blazar PKS 0903-57
    • Master thesis, IISER Tirupati, India, March 2024 (project carried out at MPIK Heidelberg)

  • Prajath B R: Improving H.E.S.S monoscopic gamma-hadron separation at low energies and application to Vela pulsar
    • Master thesis, IISER Tirupati, India, March 2024 (project carried out at MPIK Heidelberg)

  • Matthias Matzke: Towards a joint analysis of H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT data with Gammapy
    • Master thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, June 2022

  • Tim Unbehaun: Joint-instrument analyses with Gammapy
    • Master thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, December 2020 (awarded with the Ohm Prize of the Department of Physics)
    • Link to thesis

  • Matei Ruta: H.E.S.S. Data Analysis of the Galactic Center Region
    • Bachelor thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 2019 (joint supervision with C. van Eldik)
    • Link to thesis

  • Martin Schneider: Modelling the diffuse TeV gamma-ray emission in the Galactic Center
    • Bachelor thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, July 2019 (joint supervision with C. van Eldik)
    • Link to thesis

  • Jacky Catalano: Towards a new Analysis of the Super Star Cluster Westerlund 1
    • Master thesis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, March 2019 (joint supervision with C. van Eldik)
    • Link to thesis

  • Christopher Sobel: Development and Characterization of a Field-of-View Background Model for the High Energy Stereoscopic System

  • Maximilian Schandri: Investigation of Observation Quality Parameters for H.E.S.S.-II

  • Christopher Schönwälder: Simulationsstudien zum Nachthimmel-Untergrund beim GCT-Teleskop für das Cherenkov Telescope Array

Courses

During my time at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, I have taught exercise classes for the following courses.

  • Summer term 2021: Integrated Course 3: Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • Advanced physics course (Prof. Dr. Uli Katz)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Winter term 2020/21: Kern- und Teilchenphysik (EP-5)
    • Bachelor course (Prof. Dr. Uli Katz)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Summer term 2020: Integrated Course 3: Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • Advanced physics course (Prof. Dr. Uli Katz)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Winter term 2019/20: Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
    • Master course (Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Summer term 2019: Integrated Course 3: Nuclear and Particle Physics
    • Advanced physics course (Prof. Dr. Uli Katz)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Winter term 2018/19: Introduction to Astroparticle Physics
    • Master course (Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Summer term 2018: Advanced Particle and Astroparticle Physics (EV-B)
    • Master course (Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk)
    • Tutor + organisation of exercise classes
  • Winter term 2017/18: Kern- und Teilchenphysik (EP-5)
    • Bachelor course (Prof. Dr. Uli Katz)
    • Tutor of exercise class
  • Summer term 2017: Advanced Particle and Astroparticle Physics (EV-B)
    • Master course (Prof. Dr. Stefan Funk)
    • Tutor of exercise class
  • Winter term 2015/16, summer term 2016, winter term 2016/17
    • Supervision of advanced lab course experiment “Compton effect”

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