Bachelor and Master Thesis

Bachelor's theses are booked through the online module booking system. Possible topics for a Bachelor's thesis in developmental neuroscience are listed below.

Are you interested in writing a Master's thesis in developmental neuroscience? Below you will find an overview of the different topics for which Master's theses are available. Theses will be allocated according to capacity and the status of the various projects.

If you are interested, please contact us at nmrkidslab@jacobscenter.uzh.ch
Please include a short CV and a one-page motivation letter with your application. In this letter you can explain why you are interested in our research projects, when you would like to start and how many semesters you want to dedicate to the thesis.

We look forward to your application!

• Typical and atypical brain development and its relation to developmental and mental health disorder
• Learning and brain plasticity
• Neuronal correlates of socioemotional development from kindergarten to adolescence (including fMRI tasks of emotion processing, emotion regulation or Theory of Mind)
• Neuronal correlates of typical or atypical language development
• Paediatric Neuroimaging (Methods & Protocols)
• The relationship between speech and socioemotional processing
• Biobehavioral synchrony
• Functional and structural brain similarity in different dyads (e.g. friends, siblings, romantic partners, parent-child)
• Neuronal synchrony in mother-child dyads
• Socioemotional disorders (e.g. disruptive behaviour disorder, aggression, conduct disorder)
• The reading brain
• Developmental Dyslexia
• Replicability and reproducibility of developmental research studies
• Science Communication & Outreach

• Paediatric Neuroimaging, including functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging
• Standardized psychometric or clinical testing
• Analyses may include Task-Based Neuroimaging Analysis, Diffusion-Tensor-Imaging, Voxel-Based Morphometry, Cortical Surface-Based Analysis, Representational Similarity Analysis or Coordinate-Based Activation Likelihood Estimation.