Below is an overview of internship projects completed by students of the Master's Degree Program. The projects cover a broad range of topics in planetary science and space exploration and are carried out in collaboration with research institutions and organizations in Germany and abroad.
Winter Semester 2025 / 2026
| Student | Project Title | Host Institution / Institute |
|---|
| Justine Bergeron |
Modeling Secondary Electron Yield in Nanometric Dust: Implications for Saturn's Plasma Environment |
Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Erik Dünschede |
PLATO Camera Ghost Images |
Extrasolar Planets and Atmospheres, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Bruna Fena |
Incorporating Ultraviolet Opacities on the Hadean Climate |
Kaptyen Astronomical Institute, University of Gröningen |
| Lucas Fernández |
An Investigation of Traversability at Oxia Planum from Orbital and In-Situ Investigations at Jezero Crater |
European Space Agency (ESA); The Open University |
| Sipan Hasan |
Spectroscopic Analysis of Planetary Analog Materials |
Planetary Geology, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Achillefs Manakanatas |
PLATO's Giant Planets |
Planetary Geophysics, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Tommy Markstein |
Pulsation of WASP 33: Comparing Filtering Techniques in High-Resolution Spectroscopy Data |
Planetary Geodynamics, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Cedric Rückert |
Exoplanet Atmosphere Modeling at DLR: Python Tools for the Artificial Oxygen Concept for 1D-Terra |
Extrasolar Planets and Atmospheres, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Yongzhen Xie |
Sri Lankan Serpentinite |
Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) |
Summer Semester 2025
| Student | Project Title | Host Institution / Institute |
|---|
| William Byrne |
DLR Internship Project |
Planetary Physics, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Florian Gross |
DLR Internship Project |
Planetary Laboratories, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Greta Lamers |
Glassy Mercury Analogues, Venus Analogue Slabs, Lunar Analogues |
Planetary Laboratories, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Youssef Mohammed |
FORS2 FFB3 Lamp-Flux Automation, LLM-Assisted Intervention Documentation, KMOS Helium-Compressor Closed-Loop Control |
Instrumentation Group, European Southern Observatory (ESO) |
| Sushil Thounaojam |
Georeferencing of WISPR Venus Flyby Images |
Planetary Science and Remote Sensing, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Luke Wiebe |
Simulating DART Secondary Impacts |
Solar System, Impacts and Meteorites, Museum of Natural History Berlin (MfN) |
| Bingjie Zha |
Internal Evolution of Gas Giants |
China Center of Advanced Science and Technology |
Winter Semester 2024 / 2025
| Student | Project Title | Host Institution / Institute |
|---|
| Pouria Karami |
Novel Perspectives on Our Solar System History Recorded in the Atacama Desert |
Solar System, Impacts and Meteorites, Museum of Natural History Berlin (MfN) |
| Begüm Kasapli |
Predicting Planetary Compositions: A Synthetic Spectrum Approach for Lava Worlds |
Planetary Geodynamics, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
Summer Semester 2024
| Student | Project Title | Host Institution / Institute |
|---|
| Esin Gamze Erkan |
The Evolution of Dust Particles in Saturn's E Ring |
Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Beray Fitoz |
Water Variability in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars |
Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia, High Council of Scientific Research (IAA-CSIC) |
| Najma Nujumudeen |
Glacial Features in an Unnamed Impact Crater in Xanthe Terra: Implications for Ice Deposition in the Low-Latitude Deep Regions of Mars |
Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
| Ramesh Shrestha |
Spectroscopic Measurements of Planetary Analogues Under Simulated Planetary Surface Conditions |
Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Ozgun Toy |
Comparative IR and Raman Spectroscopy on Earth Analogue Samples |
Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Lea Wehenkel |
Habitat-OASIS Group Internship Report |
Habitat-OASIS Group, Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) |
Winter Semester 2023 / 2024
| Student | Project Title | Host Institution / Institute |
|---|
| Josephine Anderson |
Novel Perspectives on Our Solar System History Recorded in the Atacama Desert |
Solar System, Impacts and Meteorites, Museum of Natural History Berlin (MfN) |
| Shreya Champakbhai Chauhan |
Calibration Measurements of VEMulator-2.0 for the Future VERITAS Mission to Venus |
Planetary Laboratories, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Charlotte Herrmann |
DLR Internship Report |
German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Tom Ihro |
Can We Measure the UV Flux of M-Dwarfs That Host Planets with CLOVE? |
Institute of Planetary Research, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |
| Paul Koetter |
CubeSat Mission Design |
German Aerospace Center (DLR), Planetary Transportation Systems (PTS), University of Vienna |
| Alexa Schoepf |
Integration of SCOTA in Jupyter Notebooks/Python |
Missions Operations Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR) |