Bachelor - and Master thesis topics
- Land-use changes and land conflicts
- SDGs and land systems
- Global change and impacts on Socio-ecological land systems
- Natural resource appropriation and land system experiments (e.g. covid)
- Nature based solutions for adapting to land-use changes changes
- Indigenous communities
Geographical areas of interest: Latin America
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Title, objectives, hypothesis, justification, methods you would like to use, expected results, potential applications, your thesis and time frame.
We are happy to work with you on your Bachelor's and Master's theses. Yet, if we do not hear back from you , it hinders our work. Thus, if there is no contact from your side for more than two weeks, we will assume no further responsibility for supervising your thesis. Thank you for your understanding.
Overview of previously supervised bachelor - and master thesis:
| "The Cost of Soy? A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of the Associations Between Soy Expansion and Human Well-Being in Paraguay's Atlantic Forest From 2000 to 2020" | 2025 | HU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. Tobia Lakes (HU), second advisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
| "Gehölzfragmentierung als Indikator für Biodiversität in Agrarlandschaften mit unterschiedlicher Nutzungsintensität in Brandenburg" | 2025 | FU Berlin, bachelor level |
First advisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodriguez, second advisor: Dr. Anika Sieber |
| "The Role of Women in Shaping Local Ecological Knowledge and Maintaining Ecosystem Services in Rural Communities of the Cerrado in the Federal District of Brazil" | 2025 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodriguez, second advisor: Dr. Ana Alice Aguiar Eleuterio |
| "Auswirkungen von Freiflächen-Photovoltaikanlagen auf den Wasserhaushalt - Modellierung am Beispiel des Solarparks Klosterdorf (Brandenburg)" | 2025 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodriguez, second advisor: Prof. Dr. Heiko Sieker |
| "An interdisciplinary analysis of the impacts and changes caused by Chinese Investment in Lithium production in Northern Argentina" | 2025 | FU Berlin, bachelor level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr. Ezequiel Aráoz (UNT) |
| "Was hemmt hemmt den Ausbau von Erneuerbaren Energien in der Brandenburger Gemeinde Schönefeld?" | 2025 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr.-Ing. Swantje Grotheer (TU Berlin) |
| "Understanding how changing environmental conditions influence phytoplankton growth in the Elbe River Basin using coupled PhytoBasinRisk and MONERIS models" | 2024 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr. Markus Venohr (IGB) |
| "Modeling the Impact of Climate Change on Renewable Power Production - Assessing the Power Supply under different Climate Scenarios and the current Policies in Germany" | 2024 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Prof. Dr. Fabian Fassnacht |
| "Spatial Accessibility to Healthcare Facilities in the Tri-Border of the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest" | 2024 | FU Berlin, bachelor level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr. Lia Montti (CONICET Argentina) |
| "Spatial characterization of human-puma conflicts in social-ecological land systems of Argentina" | 2024 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr. Sofia Nanni (CONICET Argentina) |
| "An Artificial Intelligence approach of monitoring EU Legislation in Agriculture: A Natural Language Processing assessment using Climate Data" | 2024 | FU Berlin, master level | First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Dr. Mariana M. de Brito (UFZ) |
| "Sustainable Development Goals are just one flush away - How new municipal management systems could avail resources and reduce greenhouse gases" | 2024 | FU Berlin, bachelor level | First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase (HU Berlin) |
| "Land-use Changes and Dynamics of Forest Fragmentation from 1985 to 2021 in the Upper-Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America" | 2024 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second supervisor: Dr. Lia Montti |
| "Characterizing spatiotemporal dynamics of on-farm storage technologies: Do silage bags challenge geographic frontier theories in the Argentinian Dry Chaco?" | 2023 | FU Berlin, master level |
First advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez, second advisor: Prof. Dr. Fabian Fassnacht |
| "Measures to promote biodiversity in urban areas in Germany" | 2023 | FU Berlin, bachelor level |
Second advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
| "Environmental Justice and the indigenous communities in the Brazilian Legal Amazon" | 2023 | HU Berlin, master level |
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
| "Identification of priority areas for the conservation of natural pastures of the Argentine Chaco" | 2020-2023 | CONICET-UNSL Argentina, postdoc |
Co-director postdoc fellowship, KA7 Environmental Sciences: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Happiness and the environment: Environment impacts on Subjective Well-Being" |
2022 |
FU Berlin, |
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Inwiefern beeinflussen Extremwetterereignisse die Wahrnehmung des Klimawandels?" |
2022 |
FU Berlin, |
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Mapping the agricultural frontier in Brazil: the case of coffee production in the Cerrado Mineiro Region" |
2022 |
TU Berlin, |
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Utilizing Landsat time series to map 30+ years of greenhouse expansion in Almeria, SE Spain" |
2019 |
HU Berlin, |
Second supervisor and evaluator: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Contribution of forest curtains to connectivity and effects on ecosystem functioning of the semi-arid Chaco forest" |
2019 |
UBA Argentina, |
Master thesis evaluation and defense board: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"Ecological integrity in forested landscapes under agricultural uses: spatial scales configuration and forest degradation in arid Chaco forests" |
2018 |
UBA Argentina, |
PhD thesis project evaluation: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
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"The effect of actors in deforestation and forest fragmentation in the Argentine Chaco" |
2017 |
HU Berlin, |
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |
| "The role of soybean and cattle ranching in deforestation in the Gran Chaco" | 2015 | HU Berlin, master level |
Co-advisor: Prof. Dr. María Piquer-Rodríguez |