Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie

Teaching

PhD / Master / Bachelor Theses

Video to present the group to Bachelor students at RUB (in German).

Completed PhD Theses in the group:
  • "The Fermi Bubbles: Analysing the Spectral and Morphological Gamma-ray Properties using 12 Years of Fermi LAT Data" Paul-Simon Blomenkamp, 2026
  • "Multi-messenger modeling of blazar spectral energy distributions" Anastasiia Omeliukh, 2025
  • "Development of the Filter Adapter for Polarization Measurements with the Large Array Survey
  • Telescope and Analysis of Initial Observational Data", Sven Weimann, 2025
Completed Master Theses in the group:
  • "Calculation of possible high-energy neutrino emission of Fast Blue Optical Transients and Core Collapse Supernovae and comparison to IceCube sensitivity", Yannik Pospiech, 2025
  • "Core-Collapse Supernovae Harboring Choked Jets: Compilation of a Catalog of Potential Source Candidates to Investigate the Related High-Energy Neutrino Production", Satnam Singh, 2025
  • "Numerical predictions of gamma-ray burst neutrinos from the prompt emission phase based on a proton-synchrotron model", Jannik Teuchert, 2025
  • "Laboratory Measurement of Direct Muon Signals in IceCube Upgrade Modules to Study Impact for Muon Track Reconstruction", Simon Pick, 2025
  • "Analysis of simulated ULTRASAT data to study the feasibility for kilonova detection", Maurice Weigelt, 2024
  • "Analysis of the Parameter Space of Leptonic Blazar Radiative Models with Simulated and Observational Data", Frederike Apel, 2024
Completed Bachelor Theses in the group:
  • "Analysis of Novae and Supernovae catalogue data to develop guidelines for the Fast Response Analysis at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory", Jannis Bexten
  • "Development of Guidelines for IceCube Fast Response Analysis for Gamma-ray Blazars", Victoria Kuhn
  • "Likelihood analysis to determine the upper limit curve on the thermally averaged dark matter annihilation cross-section using gamma-ray observation of the dwarf galaxy Ursa Major III.", Jan Luca Hanke, 2025
  • "Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from Seyfert Galaxies with Fermi-LAT Data Analysis", Aathira Sivakumar, 2025
  • "Studying Simulated IceCube Neutrinos to Identify Tracers of Poorly Localized Events", Swatti Swatti, 2025
  • "Analyzing Spatio-temporal Correlations between Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Sources and the IceCube Neutrino Catalog IceCat-2,", Franka Krapiau, 2025
  • "Analysis of Overlapping High-Energy Neutrino Events from the IceCube Alert Track Catalog", Maria-Irina Mociu, 2025
  • "Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from Close-By Supernovae by Analysing Fermi-LAT Data", Warot Petthongchai, 2025
  • "Analysis of Simulated IceCube data to Study the Performance of a Novel Reconstruction Technique", Lana Unterkötter, 2025
  • "Analysis of Very Long Baseline Interferometric Data of the IceCube Neutrino Source Candidate Blazar GB6 J1542+6129", Breshna Hadi, 2025
  • "Observation and analysis of flatfield images for the optimal configuration of a widefield polarisation telescope", Lotte-Malin Lamotte, 2024
  • "Analysis of Polarization Data of Active Galaxies to Estimate the Detection Prospects of the Large Array Survey Telescope Polarimeter", Leon Krampe, 2024
  • "Analysing Simulated IceCube Neutrino Track Events to Evaluate Different Methods of Angular Uncertainty Estimation", Nisa Eyilmez, 2024
  • "Simulations and Analysis of Multi-Wavelength Time Series from Blazars and Their Correlation", Julia Baßier, 2024
  • "Study of LAST's capability for detection of optical counterparts to IceCube neutrino alerts", Tianyu Zhao, 2023
  • "Search for Correlations of Neutrino Hotspots in the 7-Year IceCube Sky Map with the 5th Edition of the ROMA-BZ Catalogue of Blazars", Simon Pick, 2023
  • "Study of Hydrogen-Poor Superluminous Supernovae as Candidate Sources for High-Energy Neutrinos", Yannik Pospiech, 2023
  • "Search for High-Energy Neutrinos from Supernova iPTF14hls", Andreas Willeke, 2022
  • "Modeling the leptonic origin of the low-frequency emission from blazar PKS 1502+106", Frederike Apel, 2021

Lectures

  • SS2026, Presentation Skills, RUB
  • SS2026, Interstellar Medium, RUB
  • SS2026, Astroparticle Physics, RUB
  • WS2025/26, Python for Physicists, RUB
  • WS2025/26, Grundlagen der Astronomie, RUB
  • SS2025, Presentation Skills, RUB
  • SS2025, Interstellar Medium, RUB
  • SS2025, Astroparticle Physics, RUB
  • WS2024/25, Python for Physicists, RUB
  • WS2024/25, Grundlagen der Astronomie, RUB
  • SS2024, Astroparticle Physics, RUB
  • WS2023/24, Python for Physicists, RUB
  • WS2023/24, Grundlagen der Astronomie, RUB
  • SS2023, Astroparticle Physics, RUB
  • WS2022/23, Python for Physicists, RUB
  • WS2022/23, Grundlagen der Astronomie, RUB
  • SS2022, Astroparticle Physics, RUB
  • WS2021/22, Grundlagen der Astronomie, RUB