Master Theses
We have offered Master and MAS Theses
to ETH Students from the following Departments: D-MTEC,
D-PHYS, D-USYS, D-INF and D-MATH.
List of Theses
2024
- Alexander Bocken (Master Thesis): “Evaluating the Robustness of the Global Antibiotics Supply Network.”
Department of Management, Techonology and Economics
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi and Dr. Luca Verginer
Date of completion 12/2024
2023
- Erik Giorgis (Master Thesis): “The evolution of Open Source Software communities: The role of mailing lists.”
Department of Management, 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: 09/2022Paride 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: 08/2022Tianyuan 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
2021
Teodora Bujaroska (Master Thesis): “Concept-based explanations for graph neural networks”
Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
Supervisors: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Andreas Krause, Vignesh Ram Somnath and Giuseppe Russo\Edoardo Maggioni (Master Thesis): “Geometrical frustration and its effect in signed social networks”
Department of Physics, University of Pisa
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Prof. Riccardo Mannella and Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 10/2021Tai 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: 08/2021Nikos 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: 05/2021Julien 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
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
2019
- Lorenzo Arcari (Master Thesis): “Episode detection in
time series data on networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi, Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Date of completion: 07/2019
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: 09/2018Simon 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: 09/2018Vladislav 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: 09/2018Leonie 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
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: 08/2017Gurjot S. Sidhu (Master Thesis): “Increasing the Robustness of Complex Networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi
Date of completion: 08/2017Elias 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: 07/2017Patrik 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: 10/2016Corneel 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: 03/2016Mehdi 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: 09/2015Sebastian 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: 08/2015Giona 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
2014
Vahan Nanumyan (Master Thesis): “Master Equations for Heterogeneous Evolution of Interdependent Networks”
Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 05/2014Linda 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: 04/2014Georgi 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
- 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: 10/2012Daniel 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: 09/2012Xi 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
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: 08/2007Stefan Frei (Master Thesis): “Vulnerability Management”
Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, ETH Zurich
Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer
Date of completion: 08/2007Mahir 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