If you are interested in a Master Thesis at the Chair of Experimental Meteorology (Mayer) please contact the professors (Bernhard Mayer, Mark Wenig) or lecturers directly. We always have a number of exciting, timely and relevant topics.
Bernhard Mayer's group develops remote sensing techniques for clouds and aerosol from research aircraft and from the roof platform of the institute using lidar, radar, and imaging spectrometers. We also work on improved parameterizations of clouds in numerical weather forecast and climate models and on forward operators for data assimilation. For these applications we develop radiative transfer models.
Mark Wenig's group focuses on the remote sensing of air pollutants to further the understanding of the anthropogenic impact on the environment, the climate system, and the atmospheric composition. The research activities include differential optical absorption spectroscopy (DOAS) measurements for air pollution monitoring, radiative transfer modelling, chemical transport simulations and digital image processing.
The following list shows some examples of typical topics from recent years
Development of a surface wind retrieval by analysing sunglint geometry from specMACS radiance measurements, Anja Stallmach, 2026
Exploring the Potential of Ground-Based Cameras for Data Assimilation, Moritz Müller, 2025
Evaluation of Ensemble-based Numerical Weather Predictions of solar irradiance over Germany, Marie Mähnert, 2024
Validation of Cloud Top Height and Droplet Size Retrievals Using Simulated Observations of Polarized Radiance, Lea Volkmer, 2023
Remote sensing of arctic cirrus microphysics using hyperspectral reflectivity measurements and polarized imaging, Dennys Erdtmann, 2023
Comparison of in Situ Measurements of Atmospheric Pollutants Using a Glider-Airplane with Measurements of a MAX-DOAS Spectrometer, Jens Kühne, 2023
Remote Sensing of Ice Crystal Orientation from Polarized Imaging of the Cloudglint, Anna Weber, 2022
Optimization of the Wavelength Grid for Rapid Calculation of Solar and Thermal Irradiances and Heating Rates, Sophie Meier, 2022
Master Theses as pdf are available in the internal area under Abschlussarbeiten am MIM.