BSc and MSc theses 2019 bis 2023

 

Research Area 1: Environmental Geochemistry

 

Topic area 1:

Organic-geochemical characterisation of off-shore event layers – tracing the 1755 Lisboa tsunami

 

Topic area 2:

Organic pollution at the Japanese coast resulting from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki tsunami

 

Topic area 3:

Developing comprehensive analytical methods for identifying and quantifying (µ-)plastic in the aquatic environment – Pyrolysis and µFTIR

 

 

 

Research Area 2: Geochemistry and Petrology of Petroleum and Coal

 

Topic area 1:

Organic-geochemical and petrological characterisation of petroleum source rocks, oil- and gas shales, coals and coal-bearing strata, marine and lacustrine sedimentary rocks

 

Topic area 2:

Thermal maturity of sedimentary rocks in mountain belts (includes field work)

 

Topic area 3:

Evolution of kerogen/coal upon maturation

 

 

 

Research Area 3: Petrophysics of Low-Permeable Rocks

 

Topic area 1:

Fluid flow in shales and coals (p-T conditions, multi-phase fluids,..)

 

Topic area 2:

Storage capacity of shales and coals at different scales (petrophysical work, building advanced analogue experiments)

 

 

 

Research Area 4: Numerical Models of Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Systems

 

Topic area 1:

Regional models (1D, 2D, 3D) of burial and temperature history, maturation and petroleum generation

 

Topic area 2:

Investigations on limiting parameters in petroleum system modelling (basal heat flow, radiogenic heat production, sediment/Water interface temperatures, kinetic data on petroleum generation, petroleum expulsion from source rocks)