Teaching and Thesis Projects

 

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Teaching:

TU Dresden: Dating (C-14), Environmental Research and Supernovae (Prof. Wallner)

Tue. 14:50 - 16:20, ASB/328

Exercises: Tue. before lecture up for discussion, ASB/328

 

TU Dresden: Lab Course IKTP (Dr. Rugel)

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at DREAMS

Dates by arrangement

 

TU Chemnitz: Nuclei & Elementary Particles (Dr. Lachner)

Termine: Check-out Opal

 

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Thesis:

You would like to do a thesis in nuclear physics, astrophysics, environmental research, geology or in applied chemistry or physics?

We are happy to welcome motivated national and international students!

Write us or come around, we are happy about your visit.

 

Available topics (German possible, linked contacts):

 

Astrophysics

• Interstellar radionuclides on the Moon
• Stardust on Earth within the last 25 Myr
• Supernova signatures in deep-ocean sediments

Nuclear physics

• Re-determination of the half-life of Al-26
• The new thermal neutron fluence standard U-238 through U-238 (n, γ)

Environmental physics

• Radionuclides in Greenland ice
• Nuclear fallout in Dresden
• Global nuclear fallout in a deep-ocean ferromanganese crust
• Mass extinction events traced by Pu-244
• 236U, 239Pu, 240Pu and 241Am in sea water
• Rapid determination of U and Pu isotopes from environmental samples

Geology

• Cosmic-ray produced Be-10 to understand the growth of underwater metallic rocks
• Establishing coral records of long-lived radionuclides for multi-tracer approaches to oceanography

Ion beam physics

• Laser isobar suppression in a gas-filled RFQ

Dark matter

• The quest for dark matter - radiopurity of the SABRE detector

 

Current thesis projects:

Alexander Wieser: Development of Ion Laser Interaction Mass Spectrometry for the detection of Cs-135 and Cs-137 by AMS (Dual-PhD)

Janis Wolf: Characterization of Pa-231 in environmental samples (PhD)

Sebastian Zwickel: Interstellar and cosmogenic radioisotopes on the surface of the Moon (PhD)

Annabel Rolofs: Search for interstellar Fe-60 in Antarctic ice (M.Sc.)

Josua Vahle: Characterization of the cosmogenic radionuclides Be-10 and Al-26 in selected lunar samples by accelerator mass spectrometry (B.Sc.)