Master's Thesis

The research group Law, Science and Technology of Prof. Dr. Christian Djeffal welcomes students interested in writing the master thesis with us. We mainly supervise thesis from the master programs RESET, STS, and Politics and Technology. We are also open for other students if that is legally possible. In order to lead you to success, we offer access to our master thesis colloquy, the possibility to participate in our research projects, two individual coaching sessions and the possibility to present your thesis to our research group. While we are happy to involve you in our ongoing research, we specifically encourage students with innovative and far reaching ideas to reach out to us. 

If you would like to write your thesis with us, please send an email to professur.djeffal@tum.de containing the following information: a short outline of your research idea (not longer than two pages) and a few paragraphs outlining how your thesis relates to the main research interests of the research group. You might also add your CV and any other information you deem relevant. The normal timeline is as follows:  

  • Introductory Email to the professorship (at any time) 
  • First meeting and feedback on the topic (within 3 weeks) 
  • Formal submission 
  • First coaching (within the first month) 
  • Possibility to present in research colloquy 
  • Second coaching (before start of data gathering) 
  • Submission (6 months after formal submission) 
  • Feedback and grading (normally within two months) 

We highly welcome proposals containing a legal and jurisprudential angle, but also welcome other proposals especially in the area of digitization. Refer to this site for more information on our research focus. For a look at our current projects consult this link. Potential research topics could be:  

  • “Designing AI: realizing user autonomy in recommender systems” 
  • “An analysis of the rules on sandboxing in the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act” 
  • “Sustainable AI: a socio-technical analysis of new technologies in environmental administration” 
  • “Banning facial recognition: a discourse analysis”
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