Internships

Organisation of the Master’s projects

Here you can find the most important aspects of the organisation of the Master’s projects and the final examination.

Please see the Examination Regulations for official rules and regulations.

Proposals

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Admission to Master’s projects

The third semester offers plenty of opportunities to get in touch with researchers, universities, and institutions regarding potential internship projects. Once a topic is chosen, it is important to define a supervisor from the institution where you will conduct the research. Please also discuss the organisation with him or her, e.g. travel to the institution, visa requirements, financial support, etc.
The supervisor should act as the first referee. The second referee should come from one of the three universities (Bologna, Clermont, Dortmund).
- You are obliged to fill out an admission form for the Master’s thesis. It is available on request by e-mail from the examination office (pruefungsverwaltung-physik@tu-dortmund.de). The admission requirements are the collection of at least 84 CP.
- The definition of a thesis project and a supervisor / first referee.
- The suggestion of a second referee.
- You must choose one of the following elective modules on the admission form, depending on where you conduct the Master’s project: o Preparation for the final examination → research conducted at any French, Italian or German university.
- Preparation abroad for the final examination → research conducted at any university outside France, Italy and Germany.
- In preparation for the final examination, → internship is conducted at any company or research institution in Italy, France or Germany. Research institutions are, for example, DESY, Max Planck Institute for Physics, INFN, IN2P3, etc., i.e., any lab independent of the universities.
- Internship abroad in preparation for the final examination → internship conducted at any company or research institution outside France, Italy, and Germany, e.g. TRIUMF in Canada and BNL in the US. Etc.
- It is also necessary to sign a supervision agreement with your supervisor. The supervision agreement has to be sent to the head of the examination board (currently Kevin Kröninger).

Master’s thesis

The Master’s project will last six months (maximum). It will conclude with a written Master’s thesis, which has to be submitted within the duration of the Master’s project.
Upon justified application, the examination board can grant an extension of up to four weeks to complete the Master’s thesis.
If the Master’s thesis has not been successfully completed, it can only be repeated once and with a new topic. However, it is possible to change the subject of the Master’s thesis within the first two weeks.

The thesis should have a length of approximately 60 pages. Additional appendices are possible.
The thesis must be submitted via the online portal ExaBase at TU Dortmund University: https://webapps.itmc.tu-dortmund.de/webapps/prod/dev/exabase/

Final exams

The primary session of final exams will occur at the end of the summer term (September 30th). It will be held in presence, usually at one of the three universities. In exceptional cases, participation via ZOOM is possible.
A second final session will be offered via Zoom early in December for those who missed the primary session. Be aware that you will have to enrol for an additional semester and pay fees for this additional semester. The same holds true if you still have to collect credits for other modules.
The final examination comprises a presentation about the internship (about 20 minutes) and a discussion (about 15 minutes). The examination will be conducted by a jury of teachers from all three universities. The grades will be announced after all examinations are completed.
The Master’s thesis has to be submitted at least two weeks before the final examination.
To participate in the final examination at the end of the summer term, it is advisable to start the Master’s project in February or at the beginning of March at the latest. You must hand in your thesis on September 15th at the latest.

Grading

The two referees will grade the Master’s thesis. The grade of the Master’s thesis is formed from the arithmetic mean of the two individual grades (see Section 22 of the Examination Regulations). The thesis will be counted with 18 CP.
The jury will grade the final examination. It will be counted with 12 CP.

Intership opportunities

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TITLE	SUPERVISORS	CONTACT	AREA OF RESEARCH
Dalitz-plot analyses of charmless three-body decays Improving Flavour Tagging performance using Deep Learning Vertex reconstruction and combinatorial optimisation in high-luminosity conditions	Simon Akar, Stéphane Monteil, Vincent Tisserand	simon.akar@clermont.in2p3.fr monteil@in2p3.fr vincent.tisserand@clermont.in2p3.fr
Machine-learning–based reinterpretation of an ATLAS search for Axion-like particles	Louie Corpe, A. Haddad	lcorpe@cern.ch
Three-body and quasi-two-body Radiative decays of B mesons with LHCb	Olivier Deschamps	odescham@in2p3.fr
Introduction to low-scale models of neutrino mass generation and their associated phenomenology	Ana M. Teixeira, Salvador Rosauro-Alcaraz	ana.teixeira@clermont.in2p3.fr
Dark Energy measurement with SNe Ia in LSST	Philippe Gris	philippe.gris@clermont.in2p3.fr
Building a new event classifier to unravel the QCD properties of hadronic matter with event generators	Tulika Tripathy, Sarah Porteboeuf Houssais	tulika.tripathy@clermont.in2p3.fr, sarah@clermont.in2p3.fr
Dark matter: models and cosmic abundance	Andreas Goudelis, Thomas Reggio	andreas.goudelis@clermont.in2p3.fr, thomas.reggio@clermont.in2p3.fr
Preparing for the kinematic dipole measurement with LSST	Johan Cohen-Tanugi	johann.cohen-tanugi@clermont.in2p3.fr
Search for the coherent neutrinoless transition of a muon to an electron in a muonic atom with the COMET experiment at J-PARC	Cristina Cârloganu	Cristina.Carloganu@clermont.in2p3.fr
Observational astronomy and machine learning	Emille Ishida	emille.ishida@clermont.in2p3.fr
Searching for the Unknown – a first look to Rubin alerts in an ever changing sky	Emmanuel Gangler	emmanuel.gangler@clermont.in2p3.fr
Improvement of the GATE MARIM database for dose assessment in microorganisms exposed to artificial alpha radioactivity	Lydia Maigne, Emmanuel Busato	Lydia.Maigne@clermont.in2p3.fr, Emmanuel.Busato@clermont.in2p3.fr
Searching for long-lived particles associated to top quarks with the ATLAS detector at the LHC	Louie Corpe, Marion Missio	lcorpe@cern.ch	Atlas,Top quark physics, LHC

TITLE	SUPERVISORS	CONTACT	AREA OF RESEARCH
End-to-end optimization of the IceCube-Gen2 neutrino telescope with differential programming Measurement of the LPM effect through radio flashes from in-ice neutrino interactions	Christian Glaser	christian.glaser@tu-dortmund.de	Neutrino Physics
Exploring flavour physics at FCCee Measuring partice-antiparticle asymmetries in charm decays at LHCb	Dominik Mitzel	dominik.mitzel@tu-dortmund.de
Jet substructure studies in preparation for the High-Luminosity LHC Application of ATLAS Quark-Gluon Tagger to Electroweak Z+Jets Production Analysis	Amartya Rej, Simone Ruscelli, Chris Malena Delitzsch	amartya.rej@tu-dortmund.de simone.ruscelli@tu-dortmund.de chris.malena.delitzsch@cern.ch
Development of a High-pT b-Jet Tagger for Multi-Prong Background Rejection in ATLAS	Amartya Rej, Chris Malena Delitzsch	amartya.rej@tu-dortmund.de chris.malena.delitzsch@cern.ch
In situ calibration of large-radius jet energy with the ATLAS detector at the High-Luminosity LHC	Chris Malena Delitzsch, Donna Maria Mattern	donna.maria.mattern@cern.ch
Testing statistical methods for a top-quark mass measurement	Andrea Knue	andrea.knue@tu-dortmund.de
Prototyping of local support structures for a novel tracking detector Cooling system development for a novel tracking detector	Jens Weingarten	jens.weingarten@tu-dortmund.de	Detector studies, LHC, Atlas
Implementation of an MCMC sampling algorithm for improving event generation efficiency	Cornelius Grunwald	cornelius.grunwald@tu-dortmund.de	Phenomenology, Flavour Physics
Study of background contributions for LFU measurements with rare decays with Run 3 LHCb data	Johannes Albrecht, Alessandro Scarabotto	biljana.mitreska@cern.ch	Flavour Physics, Lepton Flavour Universality, LHC, LHCb
First look at strangeness production in Oxygen collisions with LHCb Tune charm production in CR event generators to LHCb	Johannes Albrecht, Felix Riehn	Johannes.Albrecht@cern.ch felix.riehn@tu-dortmund.de	Flavour Physics, LHC, LHCb
GPU-optimised RICH reconstruction for the HLT1 trigger at LHCb	Johannes Albrecht, Alessandro Scarabotto	Johannes.Albrecht@cern.ch, alessandro.scarabotto@cern.ch	Real data analysis, LHC, LHCb
Module design and validation for the LHCb MightyTracker Design of a diamond detector system for clinical applications	Johannes Albrecht, Dirk Wiedner	dirk.wiedner@tu-dortmund.de	Detector studies, LHC, LHCb
Sensitivity for the very rare decay B2ee with LHCb Search for Lepton Flavor Violation in tau23mu decays with LHCb Search for CP Violation in rare B+->Kmumu decays with LHCb	Johannes Ablrecht, Mick Mulder	Johannes.Albrecht@cern.ch mick.mulder@cern.ch	Detector studies, LHC, LHCb
Characterization of multilayer mirrors for Dark Matter Detection Radiopurity Measurement and Simulation of X-Ray Optics for the International Axion Observatory Axion Emission from the ANTARES Supergiant Black Holes as Laboratories for Dark Matter: Axion Trapping and Detection Prospects High-Frequency Gravitational Waves: Detection via Resonant Cavities	Jaime Ruz, Julia Vogel	Jaime.Ruz@tu-dortmund.de Julia.Vogel@tu-dortmund.de	Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Detector physiscs, simulation
X-Ray Microscopy for Small-Animal SPECT Imaging	Julia Vogel	Julia.Vogel@tu-dortmund.de	Astrophysics, Dark Matter, Detector physiscs, simulation

TITLE	SUPERVISOR	CONTACT	AREA OF RESEARCH
Antinuclei production in high-energy interactions Beautiful antinuclei	Francesca Bellini	f.bellini@unibo.it
Astroparticle Physics with the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope	Giulia Illuminati	giulia.illuminati@bo.infn.it	Astroparticle Physics, Neutrino Physics, KM3NeT
Hunting long-lived charged particle in ATLAS: ionisation and time-of-flight signatures Unveiling precision hadronic calorimetry: analysis of 2025 test beam data from a dual-readout calorimeter Building the foundations of IDEA: reconstruction algorithms for FCC	Iacopo Vivarelli	iacopo.vivarelli@unibo.it	High-PT physics, Detector simulation, LHC, FCC-ee Atlas
MIDDLE: a deep learning tool for jet soft-muon tagging Quantum Circuit Design and Simulation for Superconducting Qubits Coupled to Resonant Cavities in the QUARTET project Development and Design of Quantum Machine Learning Methods for High-Energy Physics in the ATLAS experiment	Matteo Franchini	matteo.franchini5@unibo.it

TITLE	SUPERVISOR	CONTACT	AREA OF RESEARCH	INSTITUTION
Constraining BSM physics in c -> d l^+ nu transitions Phenomenology of four lepton interactions at hi and lo pt	Gudrun Hiller	gudrun.hiller@cern.ch		CERN-Geneva (Switzerland)
Validation of Run3 tools with BR(D0->pi-pi+)/BR(D0->K-pi+)	Marianna Fontana, Serena Maccolini	marianna.fontana@cern.ch, serena.maccolini@cern.ch		CERN-Geneva (Switzerland)
Search for New Particles Using Machine Learning with the ATLAS Detector at CERN	Andre Sopczak	andre.sopczak@cern.ch	High-PT, Machine Learning, LHC, Atlas	Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic)

TITLE	SUPERVISOR	CONTACT	AREA OF RESEARCH	INSTITUTION
Magnetic Field Mapping and Control for Neutron Electric Dipole Moment Measurements	Noah Yazdandoost	nkhosravi@triumf.ca		TRIUMF (Canada)
Search for baryon-antibaryon oscillations with data from the LHCb experiment	Ulrik Egede	ulrik.egede@monash.edu		MONASH University (Australia)
Leverage ML/AI for ttbar quantum tomography in ttbar or Higgs final states Detector R&D and Instrumentation for future wire chambers AI/ML & quantum algorithm solutions for Applied Physics Quantum Sensing	Andy Jung	anjung@purdue.edu	EFT, top quark, LHC, CMS	Purdue University (USA)