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Funding period II (2021 - 2024): Completed doctoral theses

N01 - Neutrino mass and nature: neutrinoless double beta decay - towards LEGEND-1000

Schwarz, Mario
Tracing impurities and illuminating their impact: Surveying and characterizing liquid argon with LLAMA for LEGEND and beyond
Doctoral Thesis, TUM (2024)
Krause, Patrick
Shining Light on Backgrounds: An Advanced Liquid Argon Scintillation Light Detector for Boosting Background Suppression in LEGEND’s Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Search
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023) (under embargo)
Comellato, Tommaso
Inverted Coaxial Detectors for LEGEND
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)
Bossio, Elisabetta
Beyond the Standard Model physics searches with double-beta decays
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)
Fischer, Felix
The Search for 0νββ Decay with LEGEND: Signal the Background and Back the Signal
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

N02 - Neutrino mass and mixing: at the intersection between IceCube and JUNO

Shtembari, Lolian
On non-parametric tests for discovery and limit setting in one and multiple dimensions
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)

N03 - Confronting neutrino mass models with cosmology and terrestrial experiments

Císcar Monsalvatje, Mar
A symmetric universe: matter-antimatter asymmetry and dark matter from baryon number conservation
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2025)
Fridell, Karl Kåre
Phenomenology of Baryogenesis and Neutrino Physics: From Effective Field Theory to Simplified Models
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

N04 - Determination of neutrino mass with KATRIN

Urban, Korbinian
Silicon Drift Detector R&D for a keV Sterile Neutrino Search at KATRIN
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)
Siegmann, Daniel
Development of the TRISTAN Silicon Drift Detector Modules for the keV sterile Neutrino Search with the KATRIN Experiment
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)
Schlüter, Lisa
Neutrino-Mass Analysis with sub-eV Sensitivity and Search for Light Sterile Neutrinos with the KATRIN Experiment
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)
Karl, Christian
First Sub-Electronvolt Direct Neutrino Mass Measurement with the KATRIN Experiment
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

N07 - Neutrino interaction: exploring coherent neutrino-nucleus scattering with NUCLEUS

Wex, Alexander
Background Suppression and Cryogenic Vibration Decoupling for the Coherent Elastic Neutrino Scattering Experiment NUCLEUS
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2025)

D01 - Dark matter direct detection: deciphering signals at ultra-low energy

Kaznacheeva, Margarita
Exploring the sub-keV energy region with the CRESST and NUCLEUS experiments
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)
Pucci, Francesca
Optimisation of Transition Edge Sensors and Development of Novel Detector Designs to Enhance CRESST Dark Matter Sensitivity
Doctoral Thesis, TUM (2024)
Bertolini, Anna
Analysis of New Cryogenic Detectors with Light Nuclei to Extend the CRESST Dark Matter Sensitivity
Doctoral Thesis, LMU (2024)
Kinast, Angelina
Enhancing the Dark Matter Sensitivity of CRESST: Purification, Stress Reduction and 17O Enrichment of CaWO4 Target Crystals
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Langenkämper, Alexander
Characterisation of the Muon-Induced Neutron Background with a LiF Cryogenic Detector
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Fuchs, Dominik
New Analysis Methods for Enhanced Sensitivity to Light Dark Matter at CRESST-III and Studies of Discovery Potential for Next Generation Cryogenic Experiments
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Abdelhameed, Ahmed
Aspects of TES Novel Reproducibility for Cryogenic Detectors Dedicated to Dark Matter Search
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

D02 - Challenging dark matter models at colliders

Schnell, Luc
The Devil lies in the Tails: Improving the Predictions for BSM Signals at the LHC
Doctoral Thesis, TUM (2024)
Schulte, Stefan Andreas
Physics beyond the Standard Model: Exploring Dark Matter and Leptoquarks at the Large Hadron Collider
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Stelzl, Stefan
How New Particles Change Stars and how Stars Change Particles
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

D03 - Dark matter indirect detection: phenomenology and searches with IceCueb

Brenner, Anja
Model- and halo-independent limits on the dark matter-nucleon interaction
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Herrera Moreno, Gonzalo
Particle attenuation within dark matter spikes
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)

D04 - Quantum effects in dark matter processes

Lederer, Stefan
Non-perturbative effects in Production and Detection Processes of Dark Matter
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)
Taule, Petter
Neutrinos in cosmology
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

D06 - Phenomenology of Light Dark Matter

Mazoun, Asmaa
Probing Interacting Dark Sector Models with Large-Scale Structure
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2025)
Reichard, Merlin
Electromagnetic moments of neutral spin-1/2 particles in general renormalizable models
Doctoral Thesis, TUM (2025)
Betancourt Kamenetskaia, Boris
Observable signatures and consequences of high-density dark matter environments
Doctoral Thesis, 2025 (TUM)

D07 - Antinuclei from dark matter?

Königstorfer, Stephan A.
First measurement of the absorption of anti-3He and anti-3H in matter and its impact on anti-3He propagation in the galaxy
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Šerkšnytė, Laura
Novel technique to access the strong interaction in three-body systems and Re-evaluated cosmic ray antinuclei fluxes
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)

M01 - Multi-messenger searches for high energy neutrino counterparts

Kontrimas, Tomas
Methods for the search of high-energy neutrino sources: from IceCube data to source modeling
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2025)
Bellenghi, Chiara
The emergence of a new sky: First associations of IceCube high-energy neutrinos with Active Galactic Nuclei
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)
Karl, Martina
Unraveling the origin of high-energy neutrino sources: follow-up searches of IceCube alert events
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2022)

M03 - The Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background: Theoretical Predictions, Astronomical Observations, and JUNO Perspectives

Kresse, Daniel
Towards Energy Saturation in Three-dimensional Simulations of Core-collapse Supernova Explosions
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)

M05 - Particle Physics in Supernovae

Ehring, Jakob
Fast Neutrino Flavor Conversions in Core-Collapse Supernova Simulations
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2024)

M07 - Stellar matter: hyperons and axions in neutron stars

Ponnath, Lukas
Precise Measurement of Nuclear Interaction Cross Sections with R3B
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Springmann, Konstantin F.
How Light Scalars Change the Stellar Landscape
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Singh, Bhawani
Study of the strong interaction in p–d system and of deuteron production in pp collisions
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)

M08 - New direction in multi-messenger astronomy: IceCube-Gen2 and the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment

Ha Minh, Martin
New ways to explore the neutrino sky through the eyes of the South Pole — Development of numerical methods for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2025)
Holzapfel, Kilian
Bioluminescence in the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment: Shedding Light on the Deep Sea
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2023)
Rea, Immacolata Carmen
The Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment: feasibility study for a new Neutrino Telescope at Cascadia Basin, NE Pacific Ocean
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2021)
Henningsen, Felix
The self-monitoring precision calibration light source for the IceCube Upgrade
Doctoral thesis, TUM (2021)
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