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 summer term 2026: 1st March 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 Summer Term 2026
- Local Sourcing from Small Farmers: Integrated Procurement and Logistics Planning
- Multi-Period Replenishment and Distribution Planning under Operational Uncertainty
- End-to-End Fulfillment Planning with Multi-Site BOM Structures and Supplier Lead Times
- Planning of Middle-Mile Operations
- Dynamic Drone Routing in Post-Disaster Operations
- Same Day Delivery with Integrated Fixed Routes
- A Rolling Horizon Framework for Dynamic Ferry Routing
- Fairness in Time and Space: Allocating Transportation Capacity in Agri-Business
- Reinforcement Learning for Estimating Arrival Times in a Crowdshipping Setting
- Stochastic Dynamic Vehicle Routing with Service-Level Constraints
- Comparing Algorithmic Performances for Selected Routing and Scheduling Problems
- Comparing Different Facility Location Problems
- Location Planning for Edge Computing Server with Link-Constraints
- Balancing Human Workload and Efficiency in Multi-Vehicle Routing
- Time-Dependent Facility Location Problem for Healthcare Services
- Modeling Driver Autonomy in Last-Mile Delivery Operations
- Dynamic Demand Management for On-Demand Restaurant Meal Delivery
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.
