We are always excited to welcome motivated students who wish to write their bachelor or master thesis in our department and gain insights into current research! We offer a wide range of exciting topics in the fields of experimental, conceptual, and empirical chemistry education, and we also collaborate with subject-specific sciences and other (STEM) didactics. In addition, we ensure good support with short communication lines and open doors.

Below, we briefly present what you can expect. If you are interested or have any questions, please feel free to contact us, preferably for a personal conversation. Each semester, a seminar on thesis writing accompanies the theses.

A central goal is for students to gain insights into current research and actively participate in it as part of their theses. For this reason, we embed (almost) all topics into our ongoing research projects. Not least, students benefit from the expertise of their supervisors.

The topics are distributed across our diverse research focuses and projects. To provide all interested parties with an overview, we present all topics together on one date. If interested, a subsequent conversation with the supervisor takes place, where any questions can be addressed. If "the chemistry is right," the topic is agreed upon and registered with the examination office.

The following templates are mandatory for writing the thesis. They ensure comparability and take a significant part of the layout and formatting work off your hands. The Word document contains detailed instructions and also guidelines on citation rules. A LaTeX version is not yet available – perhaps someone would like to create it?

Download Templates

Completing your theses requires good organization in addition to the scientific component. Starting from the upcoming semester, projects in chemistry education will be coordinated to ensure that grades are recorded on time by the end of the semester. This coordination is also intended to foster synergies among the projects. Therefore, the following timeline will be mandatory starting in the winter semester of 2024/2025.