Theses

Suggested topics for theses at IGeo

We supervise theses on current issues in the following areas:

Water quality in urban areas

Biodiversity - Environment - Climate - Humans

Geology - Palaeontology - Sedimentology

You have the choice of writing your thesis in one of our ongoing DFG-funded research projects with international cooperation (Tibet Plateau, Nepal, Saudi Arabia), investigating the relationship between climate and humans in Lower Saxony (MWK funding), accompanying water and nature conservation measures in the Braunschweig urban area or working with our cooperation partners at other universities or large non-university research institutions as well as city, state or federal institutions in the field of climate and biodiversity research. We support external theses in Germany and abroad and are also happy to develop topics with you - contact us! 

Your methodological focus can be on field work, laboratory work, literature research and GIS analyses or a combination of these four areas. It is also possible to work on topics in a team. Theses are supervised jointly with:

Download detailed descriptions of proposed thesis topics