Bachelor and Semester Theses

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

List of Theses

2024

• Alesch Bättig (Semester Thesis): “How sustainable cooperation creates resilient organizations: An agent-based model.”
  Department of Physics
  Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi
  Date of completion 06/2024

2023

• Leonardo Comi (Semester Thesis): “Bayesian Inference of Signed Relations.”
  Department of Mathematics
  Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Giona Casiraghi and Georges Andres
  Date of completion 09/2023

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

2019

• Alexia Pastre (Semester Thesis): “Higher-order dependencies in cascade processes on networks”
  Department of Physics ETH Zurich
  Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Dr. Vahan Nanumyan, Ambra Amico
  Date of completion: 04/2021

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Lorenzo Arcari (Semester Thesis): “Estimating confidence bounds using Generalized Hypergeometric Ensembles”
  Department of Physics, ETH Zurich
  Supervisor: Prof. Frank Schweitzer, Giona Casiraghi, Giacomo Vaccario
  Date of completion: 07/2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

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