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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Overview of previously supervised bachelor - and master thesis:
| "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 |