Are you a student and want to do a Bachelor’s thesis, Master’s thesis, or project with us?
Find our student project proposals here.
You are also very welcome to contact us with your own idea for a project!
Student activities
An integral part of our group's work concerns teaching and supervision of student projects. We teach seven courses (B.Sc. and M.Sc. level), and continuously supervise students (B.Sc. and M.Sc.) throughout their studies at DTU as well as their research (Ph.D.). You can find more information about our courses and the projects that we supervise below.
As an inspiration for future Ph.D. projects, you can find a list of current and completed Ph.D. projects here.
Current Ph.D. projects
Earth observation for surface mass balance
- Student: Anna Puggaard
- Organisation(s): DTU Space, DMI
- Supervisors: Sebastian Simonsen (DTU Space), Louise Sandberg Sørensen (DTU Space), Ruth Mottram (DMI), Anna Solgaard (GEUS)
What drives subglacial lake activity in Greenland
- Student: Mikkel Aaby Kruse
- Organisation(s): DTU Space, GEUS
- Supervisors: Louise S. Sørensen (DTU Space), Anders Kusk (DTU Space), Nanna Bjørnholt Karlsson (GEUS, affiliated DTU Space)
Mapping and modeling of water level and discharge in Arctic rivers using remote sensing
- Student: Linda Christoffersen
- Organisation(s): DTU Space
- Supervisors: Karina Nielsen (DTU Space), Peter Bauer-Gottwein (DTU Space), Louise S. Sørensen (DTU Space)
Numerical modelling of icebergs drift and deterioration in the Barents Sea
- Student: Behzad Forouzi Feshalami
- Organisation(s): NTNU, DTU Space
- Supervisors: Knut V. Høyland (NTNU), Henriette Skourup (DTU Space)
Quantification of anthropogenic methane emissions using remote sensing (MetSat)
- Student: Louise Anne Klotz
- Organisation(s): DTU Sustain, DTU Space
- Supervisors: Charlotte Scheutz (DTU Sustain), Sine Hvidegaard (DTU Space), Andreas Stokholm (DTU Space)
Greenhouse gas emission monitoring with satellite remote sensing (GasSat)
- Student: Pau Fabregat Carrascal
- Organisation(s): DTU Sustain, DTU Space
- Supervisors: Charlotte Scheutz (DTU Sustain), Sine Hvidegaard (DTU Space), Andreas Stokholm (DTU Space)
Completed Ph.D. projects
Investigating sea ice and snow features using multi-frequency remote sensing observations (2024)
- Student: Renée M. Fredensborg Hansen
- Organisations: DTU Space, NTNU, UNIS
- Supervisors: Henriette Skourup (DTU Space), Knut V. Høyland (NTNU), Eero Rinne (UNIS), René Forsberg (DTU Space)
Earth Observation and Artificial Intelligence for Automatic Sea Ice Mapping (2024)
- Student: Andreas Stokholm
- Organisations: DTU Space, ESA
- Supervisors: Sine Hvidegaard (DTU Space), René Forsberg (DTU Space), Leif Toudal Pedersen (DTU Space)
Remote Sensing of Land Ice Swath Processing of CryoSat2 SARIn Data (2023)
- Student: Natalia Havelund Andersen
- Organisations: DTU Space
- Supervisors: Louise S. Sørensen (DTU Space), Sebastian B. Simonsen (DTU Space)
Reconciling fundamental climate variables for determining the Antarctic Mass Balance (2023)
- Student: Nicolaj Hansen
- Organisations: DTU Space, DMI
- Supervisors: Sebastian B. Simonsen (DTU Space), René Forsberg (DTU Space), Ruth H. Mottram (DMI)
Measurement of Arctic sea ice from satellite altimetry: the potential and limitations of CryoSat-2 SARIn mode (2023)
- Student: Alessandro Di Bella
- Organisations: DTU Space
- Supervisors: René Forsberg (DTU Space), Henriette Skourup (DTU Space)
Essential Climate Variables for the Ice Sheets from Space and Airborne measurements (2015)
- Student: Joanna Fredenslund Levinsen
- Organisations: DTU Space
- Supervisors: René Forsberg (DTU Space), Shfaqat Abbas Khan (DTU Space), Louise S. Sørensen (DTU Space)
Cryosphere monitoring from satellites and aircraft (2015)
- Student: Johan Nilsson
- Organisations: DTU Space
- Supervisors: René Forsberg (DTU Space), Louise S. Sørensen (DTU Space)
As inspiration for future B.Sc. and M.Sc. theses, you can find a list of some of the completed theses, supervised by our group, here.
M.Sc. Thesis - A study of sea ice near tide gauges in Greenland (2025)
- Student(s): Michalina Josephine Sigil
- Supervisor(s): Sine Hvidegaard
M.Sc. Thesis - Detection of Sea Ice Pressure Ridges using Photon Elevations from ICESat-2 (2024)
- Student(s): Anna Marie Tiberi
- Supervisor(s): Henriette Skourup, Renée M. Fredensborg Hansen
B.Sc. Thesis - Analyzing Iceberg Movement and Wave Generation using Fast Sampling SWOT Satellite Data (2024)
- Student(s): Mathilde M. Lundberg and Constance Hjort
- Supervisor(s): Stine K. Rose, Ole B. Andersen
B.Sc. Thesis - Reconstructing Snowfall Patterns in Greenland Using Radar and Mathematical Models (2024)
- Student(s): Anna Leer and August Rendtorff
- Supervisor(s): Sebastian B. Simonsen
B.Sc. Thesis - Old radar data offer new insight into the state of the Greenland ice sheet (2023)
- Student(s): William Strøm Ludvigsen
- Supervisor(s): Louise S. Sørensen
B.Sc. Thesis - Satellite tracking using event-based camera (2022)
- Student(s): Michalina Josephine Sigil
- Supervisor(s): Andreas Stokholm, Sine Hvidegaard
M.Sc. Thesis - How much of the surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet is melting? (2021)
- Student(s): Magnus Barfod Suhr
- Supervisor(s): Sebastian Simonsen
M.Sc. Thesis - Satellite monitoring of subglacial lakes in Greenland (2021)
- Student(s): Yassin Rasmus Bahbah Nielsen
- Supervisor(s): Louise S. Sørensen, Natalia H. Andersen
M.Sc. Thesis - A study of airborne radar penetration into snow cover of sea ice in the Antarctic (2020)
- Student(s): Torstein D. Hjelm Balle
- Supervisor(s): Henriette Skourup, Sine Hvidegaard
B.Sc. Thesis - Estimation of snow depths in the Arctic Ocean from satellite passive microwave (2020)
- Student(s): Ida Lundtorp Olsen
- Supervisor(s): Henriette Skourup, Mai Winstrup
We teach and contribute to several courses on B.Sc. and M.Sc. level at both DTU Campus in Lyngby and Arctic DTU Campus in Sisimiut, Greenland.
The courses take place in either the 13-week autumn or spring semesters, or as part of the 3-week courses. You can find more information on each of the courses on the following links: