Home IMPRS PhD Programme Research in Solar System Science Assigned PhD projects PhD thesis projects assigned to students This list is incomplete and is currently being updated Assigned PhD Projects All PLATO PhD position at CNES (Paris) and MPSSR (Göttingen) March 01, 2021 IMPRS Telegramme PhD Solar and Stellar Interiors Assigned PhD project: PLATO PhD position at CNES (Paris) and MPSSR (Göttingen): application deadline 22 March 2021 more Assigned PhD project: Response of Martian atmosphere to Solar activity August 20, 2020 Helioseismology Mars Solar physics Solar irradiance variability as seen by Mars general circulation models and comparison to HOPE data more Making small planetesimals during the formation era of the solar system October 01, 2019 Small bodies and comets Numerical simulations to explore how minor bodies like asteroids, comets and KBOs formed more Code development to further improve coronal field extrapolations September 02, 2019 Solar and Stellar Coronae Solar physics more Global distribution and dynamics of dust near comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko September 02, 2019 Small bodies and comets Statistically analyse the large set of grain coma data in Rosetta/OSIRIS images of comet 67P/C-G more Dynamics of debris in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko November 01, 2018 Small bodies and comets Develop an image analysis algorithm for Rosetta/OSIRIS images of comet 67P/C-G's coma more Inversion of single-station seismic data for shallow and crustal structure of Mars for the InSight mission June 04, 2018 Mars Planetary science more Cometary origin of water on Planet Earth? April 04, 2018 Earth Planetary science Cometary science: origin of water on the blue Planet Earth more The stellar pulsation timing detection method for sub-stellar companions October 01, 2016 Asteroseismology Astrophysics Establishing a new method to detect extra-solar planets more The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter BELA September 01, 2016 Mercury Planetary science The BELA instrument on the next ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury will measure tidal elevation changes using laser altimeter data. more Show more