Master Thesis
For the upcoming semester, the Chairs of Management Science, Operations Management, and Data-Driven Decision Support organize access to Master thesis topics together. Hence, in order to apply for a Master thesis topic, it is mandatory to hand in the following form to mansci@ovgu.de: Application form Master thesis.
Please hand in the application form together with a current transcript of records.
Application deadline for a thesis to start at the beginning of the winter term 2026/27: 1st September 2026
Note that we expect you to have taken a Scientific Seminar or a Scientific Project at one of our chairs. After your application has been accepted, we negotiate a topic with you. Topics can come from two sources:
- We propose topics before the application deadline (Please indicate in your application in which of these you are interested).
- You propose a topic within an exposé of 1 to 2 pages which is related to our research and the master classes offered by our chairs.
Potential Topics Winter Term 2026/27
- Preference Learning in Crowshipping Logistics
- Dynamic Collaborative Vehicle Routing
- Vehicle Routing with Driver Autonomy
- Inbound Supply Planning with Bill of Materials
- Vehicle Routing with Inventory Decisions
- Dynamic Home Healthcare Routing
- Reinforcement Learning for Estimating Arrival Times in Crowdsourced Delivery
- Integrated Preference Modeling in Vehicle Routing
- Attended Home Delivery
- Out-of-Home Delivery
- Dynamic Waste Collection Routing with Informal Collectors
- Planning of Middle Mile Operations
Topics of the Department of Operations Management can be found through the following link.
Topics of the Department of AI-based Decision Support can be found through the following link.
