Are you interested in doing your thesis with us?
We welcome contacts by MSc and BSc students looking for our supervision during their final thesis projects. If you are interested in working with us, please first have read our Guidelines for Bachelor’s and Master’s theses. This document describes our expectations, and offers recommendations to help you identify a research topic aligned with our expertise.
To help you find a research topic, below you will find past theses titles and a list of our key areas of research.
M.Sc. Nature Conservation & Landscape Ecology
- Influence of local weather, land use and crop type on the functional diversity and traits of butterflies in the Netherlands
- Promotion of characteristic plant species through turf-stripping measures in slope spring fens – An effectiveness analysis in the Oberberg District
- The Ecological Potential of a Flood Disaster: Opportunities and Failures after the 2021 Heavy Rainfall Event in the Ahr Valley
- Influence of local weather, land use and crop type on the functional diversity and traits of butterflies in the Netherlands
Key areas of research
Species Distribution Modeling
This includes primarily, but not exclusively, SDMs on plants, birds, and mammals. We offer expertise in the development of such models, and in their use for nature conservation. The development of SDMs may include open-access data, but may also be supported by data collection efforts carried out in the scope of lab activities and projects
Contact: Stephanie Roilo
Understanding environmental change
This includes the integration of various data sources (e.g., species observations, remote sensing) across spatial and temporal scales (from local to global, from daily to decadal) to investigate, for instance:
- Causal interactions between biodiversity and environmental change (e.g., due to agriculture, climate change)
- The impacts of biodiversity change on human well being (e.g., related to food security)
- The impact of synergies between biased data inputs (.e.g., data gaps, quality issues) on our knowledge of biodiversity
contact: Ruben Remelgado
Sustainable agriculture
This topic deals with the modeling of the temporal dynamics of crop production, their status, and their link with biodiversity. On-monitoring using semi-automated techniques such as Unmaned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or acoustic sensors (to monitor, e.individual birds) may form the ground work for your theses as part of ongoing research activities. Theses may be directed at monitoring in general, or at the development development of sustainable agricultural practices by enhancing the precision and accuracy of environmental monitoring.
Contact: Clara Bazzo
