Master’s Thesis

ID2502: Self-supervised Transformer Model for EEG Data

Master Thesis: Electroencephalography (EEG) data can be very useful in various fields of medicine to establish medical diagnoses or for continuous patient care on anesthesia. However, labeled EEG data is not easily available on large datasets, due to the high cost of acquisition and annotation. T...

ID 2454: Sensor-based Measurement of Fear Avoidance in Chronic Primary Lower Back Pain during Standardized Movement Tasks

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Fear avoidance (FA) beliefs (i.e. movements may lead to pain/injury) motivate patients with chronic primary low back pain (CPLBP) to avoid physical activity and may thereby contribute to the maintenance of pain and disability. Patients’ c...

ID 2453: Monitoring prodromal hyperkinetic movements using body worn sensors in Huntington’s Disease

Huntington's disease (HD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects movement, cognition, and emotion. It is characterized by the gradual degeneration of neurons in the brain, particularly in regions responsible for motor control and coordination. The disease often begins in ...

ID 2446: EmpkinS C01: Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Movement Analysis and Control

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Earliest project/thesis start in May 2025! The real-time control and analysis of human poses and movements has long been a complex problem in fields like computer vision and machine learning. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have...

ID 2433: Various Topics for Machine Learning and (Web) App Development in Health Psychology

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The aim of our research is to explore the potential of digital technologies in psychological research to better understand human psychology and behavior. Many psychological research areas still rely on “traditional” methods, such as labor...

ID 2432: EmpkinS D03 – Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Macro Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project The observation of body posture and movements is a promising extension to the established biopsychological markers for stress measurement, such as self-reports, saliva, or blood samples. Body posture and movements provide additional infor...

ID 2431: EmpkinS D03 – Contactless Measurement of Acute Stress from Micro Movements

Bachelor's / Master's Thesis / Research Internship / Project Acute stress reliably activates, among other pathways, the sympathetic nervous system, leading to changes in heart rate (variability) (HR and HRV), respiration, pre-ejection period (PEP), and electrodermal activity (EDA). So far, these pa...

ID 2428: SMART Start – Biometrics of human pregnancy recorded by wearable devices

Background: In Germany, prenatal visits for normal-risk pregnancies are every 2-4 weeks. This low time resolution and reliance on subjective feedback instead of direct physiological measurement, could be augmented by remote monitoring. To date, continuous physiological measurements have not been ...

ID 2419: Decoding Foundation Models: Enhancing Understanding and Transparency

This work aims to investigate and analyze the intriguing properties exhibited by foundation models in deep learning, including vision, natural language processing (NLP), and multimodal models. The research intends to provide a comprehensive understanding of these properties to enhance the reliabilit...

ID 2402: Diagnosis of patients with Atypical Parkinsonism using IMUs

Diagnosis of patients with Atypical Parkinsonism using IMUs: Project: Atypical Parkinsonism syndromes such as Multiple system atrophy (MSA) and Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) are rare conditions that often are misdiagnosed as Idiopathic Parkinson disease (IPD). The aim of this project...