The DSS Team
Lecturers
Currently the DSS team consists of two professors from Kiel university (Ulrich Heute and Gerhard Schmidt) as well as three external lecturers (Jan Abshagen, Frank Ehlers, and Klaus Linhard).
Administrative Team Members
Kathrin Büsse and Petra Usinger are our secretaries and Asvet Jasari manages our IT infrastructure.
PhD Students
Currently we have about 15 internal and external PhD students.
Students
Also the students that are doing bachelor and master theses wihin our group can be found here and also the "Hiwis" (coop students) are listed.
In March 2026, the DSS Chair attended the annual DAGA conference in Dresden. Thanks to the support of the GaS-Club, the student Aylin Kösker was given the opportunity to accompany the chair and participate in the conference from March 23rd to March 26th. As part of the daily poster sessions, she presented the results of her bachelor’s thesis “Machine Learning for the Analysis of Hydrographic Data to Assess the Waterside Accessibility of Port Waters” in the field of Underwater Acoustics. The thesis forms an important basis for an ongoing university research project on the acoustic analysis of sediment properties in harbor areas. The poster session enabled valuable discussions with researchers and conference participants from related research fields.