Opportunities for Master's Theses / Masterarbeiten
Currently the following opportunities for Master's Theses are open at DGFI-TUM. We also welcome your own suggestions! In case of interest please do not hesitate to contact us.
All theses can be written in English or German.
Funded research stay for a master's thesis as part of the ESA EO Excellence Award (application deadline: 15. December 2025):
Reference Systems:
- Precise orbit determination based on ITRF20xx solutions
- Analysis and refined generation of SLR normal points
- Signatures of post-seismic relaxation in station motions of Terrestrial Reference Frames
Satellite Altimetry:
- Coastal variability of wave height from different remote sensing techniques
- Coastal sea level variability in the Agulhas Current system
- Validation of coastal sea level measurements
- Tides in the coastal region using wide-swath and nadir satellite altimetry observations
- Detection of storm surges with satellite altimetry
- Data-driven derivation of wave period from radar altimetry
Atmosphere & Space Weather:
- Operational method of the 3D ionosphere reconstruction
- Analysis and filtering of ionospheric and plasmaspheric measurements
Completed Master' and Bachelor' Theses
2025- Investigating Agulhas early retroflections and ocean dynamics: SWOT vs. conventional altimetry.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Surface Area Estimation for Lakes and Reservoirs Using SWOT KaRIn Measurements.
, Master Thesis - Consideration of non-linear station motions in the determination of terrestrial reference frames.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodesy & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Time-variable river surface slopes from SWOT.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis
- Changes in tides from satellite altimetry in the North European Continental Shelf.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Modelling of vertical land motion from a GNSS network for relative sea level change studies.
TUM/LMU (M.Sc. Geophysics), Master Thesis - DORIS-based ionospheric corrections for single-frequency radar altimetry.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Impact of the space weather event from May 2024 on the thermosphere.
- Impact of the space weather event from May 2024 on the thermosphere.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Gewässertiefen aus dem Weltall: Analyse von Laseraltimetermessungen über Seen und Flüssen.
TUM (B. Sc. Geodesy & Geoinformation), Bachelor Thesis
- Impact of refined geophysical models on orbits of altimetry satellites.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Effect of coral reefs on wave height and wave energy.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Correlation between tidal variations and El Nino Southern Oscillation.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Feature extraction for ionospheric Space Weather forecasting with machine learning.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodesy & Geoinformation), Master Thesis
- Detecting extreme sea states in satellite altimetry data.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - SLR long-term mean range biases for LEO satellites.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Transformation of global thermospheric density grids from the NRLMSISE-00 model into a multi-dimensional B-spline representation.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Estimation of electron density key parameters using the multi-layer Chapman Model considering inequality constraints from ionospheric radio occultation measurements.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Inland water levels from Sentinel-6: How can SAR altimetry improve the height estimation of rivers and lakes?.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Verwendung von ICESat-2 Laser-Altimetrie zur Bestimmung des Meeresspiegels im Arktischen Ozean.
TUM (B.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Bachelor Thesis
- Computation of a global terrestrial reference frame based on SLR solutions.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Analysis of coastal sea level trends.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis
- Investigation of the ionospheric response to space weather events by the analysis of data from space-geodetic satellite missions.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Signatures of global warming: Long-term changes of sea level and surface currents in the Greenland Sea.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Approximation of non-linear post-seismic station motions in the context of geodetic reference frames.
University of Applied Science Munich (M.Eng. Geomatik), Master Thesis - Analysis of non-tidal station loading (NT-L) in terrestrial reference frame computations.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis
- Nominal and observation-based attitude realization for precise orbit determination of the Jason satellites.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Estimation of River Discharge using Satellite Altimetry and optical Remote Sensing Images.
University of Applied Science Munich (M.Eng. Geomatik), Master Thesis - Improving water level estimations of lakes and rivers by advanced analysis of altimeter observations.
TUM (M.Sc. Environmental Engineering), Master Thesis
- Einfluss des Weltraumwetters auf geodätisch bestimmbare Ionosphärenparameter.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Analysis of extreme droughts in East Brazil based on satellite altimetry and other remote sensing techniques.
TUM (M.Sc. Environmental Engineering), Master Thesis - Design and test of a scheme for performance assessment of Significant Wave Height data.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Does the coastal mean sea level variability differ from the global trend?.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Retrieving coastal sea level from early satellite altimeters.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Regional coastal altimetry in China based on multi-missions.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis
- Lead Detection in Polar Oceans using CryoSat-2 SAR Observations.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Using ICESat laser altimeter data for the detection of open water returns in sea ice regions.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Coastal Sea State Bias: correcting coastal sea level by studying the relation between wind, waves and the radar signals.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Adaptive Modelling of the Vertical Total Electron Content of the Earths Ionosphere.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Deformation model of the Alpine region inferred from GNSS observations.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Automated Extraction of Time-Variable Water Surfaces with Cloud-Based Google Earth Engine.
University of Applied Science Munich (B.Eng. Kartographie und Geomedientechnik), Bachelor Thesis
- Berechnung von zeitlichen Variationen der Wasservolumina in Feuchtgebieten aus der Kombination von Satellitenaltimetrie und Fernerkundung – Beispielregion Pantanal.
TU Wien (M.Sc. Geodäsie), Master Thesis - Pulse-limited Altimeter Waveform Simulator.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Regionaler Meeresspiegeltrend in der Deutschen Bucht – Vergleich zwischen Satellitenaltimetrie und Pegelmessungen.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis - Hochfrequente Variation der Erdrotation: Physikalischer Hintergrund und numerische Simulation.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis
- Studying water level variations of wetlands from satellite altimetry – case study Sudd Swamp.
TUM (M.Sc. ESPACE), Master Thesis - Verwendung von Schiffsgravimetermessungen für die verbesserte regionale Schwerefeldmodellierung.
TUM (M.Sc. Geodäsie & Geoinformation), Master Thesis
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Florian Seitz
Technische Universität München
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München
Arcisstraße 21
80333 München