Ongoing MSc Theses
| Besse, Martine GEO | The wolf debate in Switzerland: A spatial and temporal analysis performing geographic information retrieval on newspaper articles | Dr. Inhye Kong Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Besson, Nils ESS | Optimizing Snow Avalanche Hazard Assessment: A Data-Driven Model for Enhanced Interpretation and Spatial Interpolation of Snowpack and Weather Data | Dr, Frank Techel Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Bolliger, Lynn GEO | The Perception of Urban Change: A Computational Text Analysis of Newspaper Articles in Zurich North from 1991-2024 | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. David Kaufmann |
| Eberhard, Fabio GEO | Mapping Tranquility: A Comparative Study of Local and Modeled Perceptions in Glarus, Switzerland | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Gomes, Diego GEO | Geoparser: A Transformer-Based Bi-Encoder Approach for Efficient Toponym Disambiguation | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Michele Volpi |
| Hamm, Marie GEO | Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Photovoltaikanlagen auf die Biodiversität in der Schweiz: Integration von Biodiversitätskriterien in die Standortplanung freistehender PV-Anlagen | Leonhard Zwiauer Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Haus, Laura GEO | The Role of British Media in Shaping Public Perception of Resilience During Natural Disasters | Dr. Inhye Kong Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Kaufmann, Dominik GEO | Semantic Similarities - A systematic approach to characterize and classify cities | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Koenig, Fabienne GEO | Geomorphometric analysis of a debris flow event in Buffalora and catchment properties in the Swiss National Park | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Isabelle Gärtner-Roer Dr. Samuel Wiesmann |
| Kunz, Annika GEO | Developing a Spatially Explicit Humanitarian Flood Vulnerability Index for Refugee Camps using Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis | Bruna Rohling Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Moffat, Nina Danielle GEO | Towards a holistic assessment approach for forests in Europe’s Natura 2000 network | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Morlang, Marc GEO | Creating a Diffuse Bicycle Traffic Assignment Model for Switzerland | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Rohr, Philipp Sebastian GEO | Exploring Regional Linguistic Variation in Spanish Tweets | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Soland, Katia GEO | Towards automating avalanche forecasts: A kriging model to interpolate modelled snow instability in the Swiss Alps | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Frank Techel, SLF Günter Schmudlach |
| Tang, Jing GEO | A Citywalk Route Recommendation System Based on User Preferences and Scenic Features: A Case Study of Paris | Dr. Inhye Kong Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
Completed MSc Theses
| 2024 | ||
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| Di Vincenzo, Simona GEO | Exploring the frequencies and thematic context of place names in the Swiss National Park in the past 110 years using computational text analysis PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Stefanie Gubler Tamara Estermann |
| Fässler, Tim GEO | Low-Stress Connectivity and Accessibility; 'Leave no one behind' in the Bicycle Network in the City of Zurich PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Maiani, Nicola GEO | Traffic coverage quality by bike in Switzerland: A comparison of cities' bikeability PDF | Dr. Cheng Fu Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Pfoster, Carmen GEO | Energy Poverty in Switzerland? A Geospatial Analysis. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Christian Berndt |
| Pleisch, Hans Peter GEO | Modelling the Effects of Tourism Development Scenarios on Land Use/Cover Change PDF | Dr. Franziska Komossa Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Stutz, Marco GEO | Geospatial Sentiment Analysis of different Energy Sources using historical Twitter Data PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Tharmalingam, Eric GEO | Extracting Structured Flood Information for Nigeria from News Media in GDELT PDF | Dr. Thomas Phillips Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Wang, Songlin GEO | Comparing Semantic Geographic Information of Toponyms through Landscape PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Sara Racca |
| Xu, Leyi GEO | Discovering Visiting Behaviors and City Perceptions by Mining Semantic Trajectory PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Zhang, Anjing GEO | Using Social Media Data to Understand People’s Activities in Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) PDF | Dr. Inhye Kong Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| 2023 | ||
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| Asper, Lino GEO | Electronic governance with an infrastructure reporting platform: The case of Züri wie neu. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Hanna Hilbrandt |
| Durband, Gabriele GEO | Partizipative Erfassung der kulturellen Ökosystemleistungen in der Valposchiavo PDF | Dr. Enrico Celio Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Groenveld, Quinten GEO | Scenicness Model Based on the British Scenic-or-Not Data Set for Switzerland, Landscape Beauty Through the Eyes of a Computer PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Maximilian Christoph Hartmann |
| Hauser, Joel GEO | Spatial Accessibility to Pediatricians in Switzerland An Improved Application Approach of the MHV3SFCA Method PDF | Dr. Oliver Grübner Micheal von Rhein Reto Jörg Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Meier, Chantal Angela GEO | Identifying toponyms and location references in residential real estate listings in Zurich City PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Özvegyi, Thomas GEO | Modelling Bicycle Ridership Using Crowdsourced Data in the Urban Area of Zurich PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Ralph Straumann Arnim Wagner |
| Schäfer, Leonie GEO | Predicting and Characterizing Backcountry Skiing Activity in the Swiss Alps using VGI Data PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Frank Techel Günter Schmudlach |
| Schär, Eric ESS | Cross linguistic comparison of Wilderness Perception in Switzerland - Perceptions of French-speaking and German-speaking Switzerland in two Regional Nature Parks PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Prof. Dr. Felix Kienast |
| Schenker, Patrick GEO | Effect of Urban Area Definition on Urban Sprawl Measurement PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Yves Maurer |
| Sigrist, Jan GEO | Multifunctionality of Urban Green Spaces in the EU PDF | Dr. Franziska Komossa Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Steinmann, Nicolas GEO | Analysing Spatial Patterns of Coastal Cultural Ecosystem Services using Flickr and Wikipedia Data PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Yuan, Mingyang GEO | What Roles do social media Play in Hurricane Ian, Before, During and After the Event PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| 2022 | ||
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| Graf, Philipp GEO | Trends in European Climate Change Perception: Where the Effects of Climate Change go unnoticed PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Kirsteina, Dace GEO | Characterising London City Parks Using Open Data. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Marie Mueller |
| Stuber, Julian GEO | Opportunities for geomorphological and glaciological research from the Arctic-wide high resolution ArcticDEM PDF | Prof. Dr. Andreas Vieli Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Sturzenegger, Sophie GEO | What Makes an Urban Public Space Popular? A Data-Based Analysis of Existing Urban Public Spaces in the City of Zurich PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| 2021 | ||
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| Arnet, Hans Thomas GEO | Die Abgrenzung von Wald - Wo beginnt der Wald und wo hört er auf? Fallstudie im Kanton Aargau PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Flurina Wartmann |
| Biland, Fabian GEO | Perception of landscape along hiking trails in the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch, Switzerland PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Vuokko Heikinheimo |
| Brandenberg, Natalie GEO | Automatisches Extrahieren von Landschaftsbeschreibungen aus öffentlich zugänglichen Texten über den Kanton Schwyz PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Dr. Maarten van Strien |
| Christen, Fabienne GEO | Extracting cultural landscape properties of UNESCO cultural heritage sites in Switzerland PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Wyler, Lisa GEO | Characterisation of the Evolution of Vineyards in Canton of Ticino and Moesa Region since the 1930s PDF | Patrik Krebs Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Wysling, Laura GEO | Where to improve cycling infrastructure? A case study on the city of Paris. PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| 2020 | ||
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| Amrhein, Adina GEO | Three-Dimensional Topographic Model as Public Participation GIS: A tool for place-based Wind Energy Planning? | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Stefanie Müller |
| Frey, Tobias GEO | The Cultural Eye. Exploring Cultural Differences in Landscape Preference based on Flickr Images. PDF | Dr. Olga Koblet Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Füglister, Benjamin GEO | From Text to Coordinates: Machine-Coding the Location of Historical Battles to Create a New Spatial Conflict Dataset PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Grcic, Tomislav Spec. MA | Understanding changes in tourists' behavior in the last decade of tourism in Croatia using User-generated content PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |
| Hug, Dario GEO | Comparison of Bike Sharing Systems (BSS) in Different Cities and the Impact of Different Influencing Factors PDF | Prof. Dr. Ross Purves Ralph Straumann |
| Lechtenböhmer, Marius Spec. MA | Uncertainty aware density estimation with user-generated tick bite data PDF | Prof. Dr. Patrick Laube Prof. Dr. Ross Purves |