Topics for Theses and Internships
Electrical Engineering & Electronics
- Motor control for autonomous winch system
- Power supply for instruments in polar marine conditions
Method & Instrumentation Development
- Measurement of minimal volume changes in seawater
- Experimental setup - measurement of ice formation processes in a pressure tank
Laboratory Experiments
- Ice formation in turbulent seawater conditions
- Development of parametrizations for numerical models
Numerical Simulations: Coupled Ice Shelf - Ocean Models
- Heat Transport in the Antarctic shelf seas
- Tipping points of cold ice shelves
- Antarctic paleo oceanography
Numerical Simulations: Coupled Atmosphere - Sea Ice Models
- Influence of solar-storms (CME) on sea ice formation
- Paleo-Polynyas - hypothetical West Antarctica shelf seas
Machine Learning & LLMs
- Emulation of winter sea ice formation in polynyas
- Ice-water boundary layer processes beneath ice shelves - parametrization of ice shelf melt derived from DNS-trained ML models
- AI-assisted porting and testing of legacy software
Most of the topics listed above can be adapted and scaled in scope for PhD theses, Master's theses, or internships. Other topics in marine engineering, autonomous long-term monitoring, ice formation processes, polar oceanography and their modeling, or related areas are always welcome - I am keen to hear new ideas. The bolder the better...