Master, Bachelor and Semester Theses

We offer Semester, Bachelor, Master and MAS Theses to ETH Students from the following Departments: D-MTEC, D-PHYS, D-MAVT, and D-MATH.

To qualify for a Master theses, D-MTEC students are require to have taken the following courses:

All students are required to sign the declaration of originality.

List of Theses

2023

Erik Giorgis (Master Thesis): “The evolution of Open Source Software communities: The role of mailing list.”
Department of Mangmente Techonology and Economics
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario and Dr. Christoph Gote
Date of completion 09/2023

2022

Vincent Jung (Master Thesis): “Ideological Embeddings of Swiss Members of Parliament”
Department of Computer Science ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer and Prof. Dr. Fernando Perez-Cruz
Date of completion: 09/2022
Paride Crisafulli (Master Thesis): “Time evolution of signed networks sparkling with conflicts”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Luca Verginer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario and Dr. Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 08/2022
Tianyuan Wang (Master Thesis): “Evolution of signed relations between firms and customers”
Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Stauffacher and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 04/2022
Agnese Sacchi (Semster Thesis): “Self-assembling directed networks for building logic gates”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 03/2022
Pipier Jerome (Semester Thesis): “Formation of signed relations and emergence of polarization in an agent-based model”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 02/2022

2021

Jiduan Wu (Semester Thesis): “Robustness and intervention on the R&D alliance network: A multi-layer approach”
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Siyu Tang, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario and Dr. Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 08/2021
Tai Hong (Master Thesis): “Critical Nodes in a Distribution Network”
Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Luca Verginer and Ambra Amico
Date of completion: 08/2021
Nikos Papanikolaou (Master Thesis): “An Adaptive Voter Model on Hypergraphs”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Renaud Lambiotte and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 05/2021
Edoardo Maggioni (Master Thesis): “Geometrical frustration and its effect in signed social networks”
Department of Physics, University of Pisa
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Mannella and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 10/2021
Pedro Perez (Semester Thesis): “Robustness and diffusion on temporal networks”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 07/2021
Jan Thurnheer (Bachelor Thesis): “Modelling distributed Production and Flow of Investments”
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Luca Verginer
Date of completion: 05/2021
Yansong Yun (Semester Thesis): “Modelling Characteristic Distribution Times in Supply Chains”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Luca Verginer, Ambra Amico
Date of completion: 04/2021
Julien Montant (Master Thesis): “Network latent spaces and propagation processes: Investigating the coupling between hyperbolic geometries and a heterogeneous SIR model on complex networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Marian Bognua (Barcelona), Dr. Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 04/2021
Trevor Winstral (Bachelor Thesis): “Distributed production models for generating business cycles”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Josef Teichmann, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario, Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 03/2021
Josepha Aran Paredes (Semester Thesis): “Using Relational Event Models to Test the Link Between Hierarchies and Productivity in OSS Projects”
Seminar of Statistics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Markus Kalisch, Christoph Gote, Laurence Brandenberger
Date of completion: 02/2021
Paride Crisafulli (Semster Thesis): “Signed Networks Inference from Interaction Networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario and Dr. Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 04/2021

2020

Tai Hong (Internship): “Reconstructing distribution networks from transaction data”
Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Luca Verginer, Ambra Amico Date of completion: 10/2020
Georges Andres (Master Thesis): “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
Marcello Negri (Semester Thesis): “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
Hongjin Wu (Internship): “Multilayer network reconstruction”
Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Christoph Gote, Christian Zingg
Date of completion: 07/2020
Jordi Campos (Semester Thesis): “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
David Bach (Master Thesis): “Towards an Instantaneous measure for the Robustness of Temporal Networks”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
date of completion: 02/2020

2019

Georges Andres (Semester Thesis): “Quantifying endogenous network statistics in network ensembles”
Department of Physics ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 03/2019
Fabien Crouton (Semester Thesis): “Endogenous predictors in gHypEG network regressions”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 02/2019

2018

Anas Bachiri (Semester Thesis): “Classification of Scientist Mobility Pathways”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 12/2018
Zhichao Han (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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
Long Him Cheung (Semester Thesis): “Emotions and Activity Spreading on Product Reviews”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Ramona Roller
Date of completion: 08/2018
Leonie Bauer (Master Thesis): “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
Michael Röthlisberger (Semester Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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
Vladislav Bunkin (Semester Thesis): “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
Amirhossein Kazemi (Semester Thesis): “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 (Semester Thesis): “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

2017

Christian Zingg (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “Increasing the Robustness of Complex Networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 08/2017
Tobias Sägesser (Semester Thesis): “Modelling Systemic Risk in Online Communities” Department of Physics, ETHZ Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
Date of completion: 08/2017
Elias Baumann (Master Thesis): “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
Vladislav Bunkin (Semester Thesis): “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
Gurjot S. Sidhu (Semester Thesis): “Agent-based model for the life cycle of collaboration networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 07/2017
Joel Luca Glässer (Bachelor Thesis): “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
Joel Winiger (Semester Thesis): “Spatial Self-organization in Hierarchical Agent Communities”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 02/2017
Patrik Friedlos (Master Thesis): “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

2016

Maxim Samarin (Master Thesis): “Modelling Co-locations in Human Mobility “
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
Date of completion: 10/2016
Christian Zingg (Semester Thesis): “Time-Dependent Distributions for Extended Preferential-Attachment Models”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Vahan Nanumyan
Date of completion: 06/201
Tamas Krivachy (Semester Thesis): “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 (Semester Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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

2015

Manran Zhu (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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
Corneel van der Pol (Semester Thesis): “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
Marius Grimm (Bachelor Thesis): “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
Giona Casiraghi (Master Thesis): “Modeling Resilience of Social Networks with non-linear Reputation Dynamics”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 04/2015
Mehdi Bida (Semester Thesis): “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 (Semester Thesis): “Indicators of future orientation”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
Date of completion: 01/2015

2014

Giona Casiraghi (Semester Thesis): “About Coreness, Nestedness and Systemic Risk”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 06/201
Vahan Nanumyan (Master Thesis): “Master Equations for Heterogeneous Evolution of Interdependent Networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 05/2014
Florian Künzler (Bachelor Thesis): “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: 05/201
Linda Lötscher (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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

2013

Daniele Casati (Semester Thesis): “Analysis of Twitter Dataset”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. David Garcia
Date of completion: 12/2013
Vahan Nanumyan (Semester Thesis): “Correlations in OTC Derivatives”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 11/2013
Kalle Klimkewitz (Semester Thesis): “A Program for Cascading Processes in Multi-Layered Networks”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 11/2013
Fabian Marbach (Bachelor Thesis): “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 (Bachelor Thesis): “Wisdom of Crowds for an Unknow Potential”
Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Pavlin Mavrodiev
date of completion: 07/201
Frédéric Balmer (Master Thesis): “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

2012

Alexander Grimm (Master Thesis): “Resilience of Collective Dynamics in Fluctuating Network Environments”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 10/2012
Daniel Längle (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “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
Sylvain Wenger (Semester Thesis): “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 (Semester Thesis): “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

2011

Christian Burri (Semester Thesis): “Hierarchy characterization in communities of wild house mice”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Nicolas Perony
Date of completion: 01/2011

2009

Krishna Murthy (Bachelor Thesis): “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

2008

Nils Brünggel (Semester Thesis): “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 (Semester Thesis): “Brownian Agents and Bacterial Motility”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 07/2008

2007

Remo Sandro Storni (Master Thesis): “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 (Master Thesis): “Vulnerability Management”
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 08/2007
Mahir Yildirim (Master Thesis): “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

2005

Nicolas Bürkler (Semester Thesis): “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

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