External theses can sometimes be an important enrichment of student careers as well as highly beneficial to both the student and IAS group members. However, quite frequently, we have seen that companies and other universities have exploited thesis students, offered scientifically poor topics and insufficient supervision. Therefore, we only offer external bachelor and master theses if we are absolutely certain that the student will profit from doing this thesis. Typically, that requires that we know the involved PIs of the host institution no matter whether it is a university, company or research institute. For companies, we typically require some form of joint funding or long-term projects before we entrust them with our precious students. Do not worry, we do know most thesis advisors who are doing interesting work in our area and we would never send you to someone boring.
If you are interested in doing a thesis abroad, at a top research institute or at a company, we are happy to connect you with one of our collaborators. The following PIs are well-known to us as outstanding supervisors for Master and Bachelor theses as well as internships, we have send students to them several times with only positive experience for us and the involved students and they are actively searching for top students:
If you are interested in doing a thesis with any person on this list, please send an email to Jan Peters including your CV and current transcripts. Suited candidates (especially students from the IAS Top Students List) will be forwarded to these collaborators. Note: Some of these theses may be offered jointly will well-paid student jobs.
Note: This page is about external bachelor and master students theses only for TU Darmstadt students. For outstanding non-TU Darmstadt students, we exceptionally offer Internal Theses as well, but such students need to contact Jan Peters by in order to be considered. jan.peters@tu-darmstadt.de