Theses

We offer

  • Semester Theses
  • Bachelor Theses
  • Master Theses
  • MAS Theses
  • PhD Theses

for ETH Students from the following Departments

To qualify for Master theses of D-MTEC, we have the following requirements:

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Additionally, all students are required to sign the following form about plagiarism

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Master Theses»

  • Georges Andres: The generalized hypergeometric ensembles of random graphs: Maximum entropy approaches and a study of non-additive entropy
    Department of Physics ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 08/2020

  • David Bach: Towards an Instantaneous measure for the Robustness of Temporal Networks
    Department of Physics ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 02/2020

  • Zhichao Han: Multi-Order Flow Compression in Time Series Data on Complex Networks
    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Andreas Krause, Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Ingo Scholtes
    date of completion: 09/2018

  • Simon Lehnerer: Multi-Order Generalisation of Node Ranking Algorithms for Multiplex Network Data
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Ingo Scholtes
    date of completion: 09/2018

  • Leonie Bauer: Emotion Spreading in Instagram in Response to Disasters
    Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Ramona Roller
    date of completion: 08/2018

  • Vladislav Bunkin: Entity Resolution in Graphs Based on Combinatorial Similarity
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi, Dr. Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 08/2018

  • Christian Zingg: Authors' Influence on Citation Rate Dynamics
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 08/2017

  • Gurjot S. Sidhu: Increasing the Robustness of Complex Networks
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 08/2017
  • Elias Baumann: The Nonlinear Dynamics of Resilience: A data-driven approach
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 07/2017

  • Patrik Friedlos: Modeling Filtering Mechanisms in Polarization Dynamics
    Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia Becerra
    date of completion: 01/2017

  • Maxim Samarin: Modelling Co-locations in Human Mobility
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 10/2016

  • Corneel van der Pol: Systemic Risk in the U.S. Network of Over-The-Counter Derivatives
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 03/2016
  • Mehdi Bida: Is a shear stress driven cells migration sufficient to induce a tree-like vascular structure? An agent based model
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 01/2016
  • Manran Zhu: Methods for optimisation of double layer transportation network
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Antonios Garas
    date of completion: 09/2015
  • Sebastian Stommel: Dynamics of Online Attention and Word-of-Mouth
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
    date of completion: 08/2015
  • Giona Casiraghi: Modeling Resilience of Social Networks with non-linear Reputation Dynamics
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 04/2015
  • Vahan Nanumyan: Master Equations for Heterogeneous Evolution of Interdependent Networks
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 05/2014
  • Linda Lötscher: Analysis of Community Structures in Complex Networks of Knowledge Transfer
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Martin Mächler
    date of completion: 04/2014
  • Georgi Smilyanov: Elementary model of social interactions in house mice
    Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 04/2014

  • Frédéric Balmer: Modeling migrating cancer cells as Brownian agents
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Eshel-Ben Jacob (Tel Aviv University)
    date of completion: 02/2013

  • Alexander Grimm: Resilience of Collective Dynamics in Fluctuating Network Environments
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 10/2012

  • Daniel Längle: Systemic Risk in Financial Networks
    Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Rodney J. Garratt (UCSB)
    date of completion: 09/2012

  • Xi Xia: How does Open Source Software Community Grow? An Empirical Study of Developers and Projects on SourceForge.net
    Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 08/2012

  • Remo Sandro Storni: A simple social vs economical capital trade-off model
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 08/2007

  • Stefan Frei: Vulnerability Management
    Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 08/2007

  • Mahir Yildirim: Towards a Unified Framework for Recommender Systems
    Department of Computer Sciences, University of Freiburg, Germany
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Frank E. Walter, Dr. Stefano Battiston
    date of completion: 02/2007

Bachelor Theses»

  • Joel Luca Glässer: Systemic Risk in International Food Trade
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Rebekka Burkholz
    Date of Completion: 06/2017

  • Marius Grimm: Modelling Systemic Risk in World Trade Networks
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Rebekka Burkholz
    date of completion: 06/2015
  • Florian Künzler: Collective emotional memory and positive thinking in written expression
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
    date of completion: 05/2014

  • Fabian Marbach: The Emergence of Inequality in an Agent-Based Model
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Claudio Juan Tessone
    date of completion: 09/2013

  • Philipp Egolf: Wisdom of Crowds for an Unknow Potential
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Pavlin Mavrodiev
    date of completion: 07/2013

  • Krishna Murthy: Modeling viral marketing through the voter model and polya process
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 07/2009

Semester Theses»

  • Marcello Negri: Information loss for static time window aggregation in temporal networks
    Department of Physics ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
    date of completion: 08/2020

  • Jordi Campos: Computation in active matter using self-assembling networks
    Department of Physics ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
    date of completion: 04/2020

  • Georges Andres: Quantifying endogenous network statistics in network ensembles
    Department of Physics ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 03/2019

  • Fabien Crouton: Endogenous predictors in gHypEG network regressions
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 02/2019

  • Anas Bachiri: Classification of Scientist Mobility Pathways
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
    date of completion: 12/2018
  • Long Him Cheung: Emotions and Activity Spreading on Product Reviews
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Ramona Roller
    date of completion: 08/2018

  • Michael Röthlisberger: Multi-Level Community Detection using Infomap and Pathpy
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Ingo Scholtes
    date of completion: 08/2018

  • Vladislav Bunkin: Entity Resolution in Graphs Based on Combinatorial Similarity
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi, Dr. Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 08/2018

  • Lorenzo Arcari: Estimating Confidence Bounds Using the Generalized Hypergeometric Ensemble
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 07/2018

  • Amirhossein Kazemi: Stochastic Actor-Oriented Models in R&D Networks
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giacomo Vaccario, Luca Verginer
    date of completion: 05/2018

  • Simon Lehnerer: When to model complex networks as multiplex networks based on their optimal multi-order representation
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Ingo Scholtes
    date of completion: 04/2018

  • Tobias Sägesser: Modelling Systemic Risk in Online Communities
    Department of Physics, ETHZ Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
    date of completion: 08/2017

  • Vladislav Bunkin: Mean First Passage versus Diffusion Times in Temporal Networks
    Department of Mathematics, ETHZ Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Ingo Scholtes
    date of completion: 07/2017

  • Joel Winiger: Spatial Self-organization in Hierarchical Agent Communities
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 02/2017

  • Gurjot S. Sidhu: Agent-based model for the life cycle of collaboration networks
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 07/2016

  • Christian Zingg: Time-Dependent Distributions for Extended Preferential-Attachment Models
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
    date of completion: 06/2016

  • Tamas Krivachy: Analysis and simulation of an agent-based opinion polarization model
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 03/2016

  • Lukas Hofmann: Nestedness in Networks - Nodes Contribution to Robustness
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Antonios Garas, Giona Casiraghi
    date of completion: 03/2016

  • Corneel van der Pol: The extent of preferential attachment in the network of scientific citations and collaborations
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 08/2015

  • Mehdi Bida: An exploratory study on the effect of the couplings order in a Kuramoto-inspired synchronization model
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 03/2015

  • Sebastian Stommel: Indicators of future orientation
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
    date of completion: 01/2015

  • Giona Casiraghi: About Coreness, Nestedness and Systemic Risk
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 06/2014

  • Daniele Casati: Analysis of Twitter Dataset
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
    date of completion: 12/2013

  • Vahan Nanumyan: Correlations in OTC Derivatives
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 11/2013

  • Kalle Klimkewitz: A Program for Cascading Processes in Multi-Layered Networks
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 11/2013

  • Sylvain Wenger: Finite Size Effect in a spatial Iterated Prisoners Dilemma: The emergence of rare attractors
    Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 07/2012

  • Adiya Abisheva: Successful and failed online social networks: a quantitative macroscopic case study
    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 02/2012

  • Christian Burri: Hierarchy characterization in communities of wild house mice
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Nicolas Perony
    date of completion: 01/2011

  • Nicolas Bürkler: Dynamics of Companies: The Evolution of its Research
    Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 07/2005

Diploma Theses»

  • Nils Brünggel: Web Crawler for Recommender Systems
    Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Advisor: Roland Portman)
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 07/2008

  • Victor Garia Palencia: Brownian Agents and Bacterial Motility
    Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
    Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
    date of completion: 07/2008