Thesis defense dates for 2026
| Date & Time | Location | Doctoral student |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, June 16, 2026 2:15 p.m. | NB 193 | Shiyang Zhang “Probing Dark Matter Across Scales: Indirect Detection and Local- Substructures” Supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Hildebrandt |
| Friday, June 26, 2026 2:30 p.m. | NB 193 | Pia-Victoria Pottkämper “Reaction Chemistry at the Plasma-Liquid-Solid Interface” Supervised by Prof. Dr. A. von Keudell |
| Friday, July 2, 2026 2:30 p.m. | NB 193 | Jinxin Li “Luminosity Determination with Rest Gas Background from the Target for the PANDA Experiment” Supervised by Prof. Dr. M. Fritsch |
| Wednesday, July 8, 2026 12:45 p.m. | NB 193 | Marius Scholten “Theoretical analysis of non-trivial (topological) effects in layered systems and at interfaces” Supervised by Prof. Dr. I. Eremin |
| Friday, July 10, 2026 12:30 p.m. | NB 193 | Athithya Aravinthan “Disentangling Cosmic Ray Signatures in Dwarf Galaxies: Dark Matter or Astrophysics?” Supervised by Prof. Dr. J. Tjus |
| Friday, July 10, 2026 2:30 p.m. | NB 193 | Eray Genc “Exploring dust transport in dark matter halos of galaxies with weak-lensing surveys” Supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Hildebrandt |
| Friday, July 17, 2026 2:30 p.m. | NB 193 | Siqi Yu “Analysis of NO Synthesis via Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Catalysis” Supervised by Prof. Dr. A. von Keudell |
| Monday, July 20, 2026 10:30 a.m. | NB 193 | Anna Wittje “Analyzing weak gravitational lensing measurements with accurate photometric redshifts and realistic simulations” Supervised by Prof. Dr. H. Hildebrandt |
| Friday, July 24, 2026 2:00 p.m. | NB 193 | Jeremiah Lübke “Cosmic-Ray Transport in Realistic Magnetic Turbulence – Beyond the Random-Phases Paradigm” Adviser: Prof. Dr. R. Grauer |
Members of the doctoral committee and faculty members of Department may Department the defense. Depending on available seating, research assistants and doctoral candidates from Department may also attend Department observers, provided the candidate has not objected to the presence of observers (§ 10(4) PromO 2011).

