Alumni Archives – Cartography M.Sc.

Cartography MSc graduate Mihir Desai in conversation with Crossmopollinate

Cartography M.Sc. graduate Mihir Desai (11th intake) participated in a podcast hosted by ‘Crossmopollinate’, the research lab of ‘Co/Lab’, which is a collective of researchers ...

Congratulations to all our 2023 graduates!

On 15 December 2023, 19 graduates celebrated their graduation. This year the ceremony was held at TU Dresden. These students began their studies at TU Munich in the winter semester of 2021, spent furt...

Cartography alumni at LBS conference

We were delighted to see that five of our former MSc Cartography students, Lin Che (intake 2020, now at ETH Zürich), Zulfa ‘Afifah (intake 2022, now at University of Augsburg), Yiwei Wang (inta...

Celebrating our 200th graduate!

Today, we have the privilege of celebrating a remarkable milestone of the MSc Cartography: the graduation of the 200th student from the programme. Congratulations to Julia Schiller from the 11th intak...

Congratulations to our graduates for receiving AGEO Award!

Cartography M.Sc. graduates Valerian Lange and Josè Pablo Ceballos received 1st and 2nd place in the AGEO Awards 2023 for the best master theses in the Geographic information field in Austria. The aw...

Congratulations Dr. Shayan Nikoohemat

The Cartography M.Sc. partner universities are proud to announce that Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat from the 1st intake finished his PhD research and defended his dissertation successfull...

Congratulations to Maja Kalinic for winning the best paper award

We congratulate our alumna Maja Kalinic for the first place in the best paper award evaluation for papers published in Taylor & Francis – Annals of GIS in 2019. Majas paper is about “Fuzzy...

And the award goes to… a Cartography Master Student!

Our sincere congratulations to Daphné Tapia from our 8th intake on the award “Best Nokia France Student” that she has received for her outstanding work at the Alcatel Submarine Networks! ...

Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting 2019

From October 10-12, 2019, the 1st Cartography M.Sc. Alumni Meeting with more than 90 participants took place. The event was hosted by TU Munich. The alumni of all former intakes, fresh graduates, cu...

Congratulations Cartography M.Sc. graduates of 2019!

As the summer semester came to the end, 19 Cartography M.Sc. students successfully finished their theses at TU Munich, TU Vienna, University of Twente and TU Dresden. Congratulations to the new gradua...

Cartography alumni Martin Hilljegerdes presented his master thesis work at the ISCRAM conference in Valencia

The 16th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM) took place in the city of Valencia (Spain), May 19-22, 2019. It succeeded again to gather an intern...

Alumni story: 3D Web maps and my cartographic experiences after graduation

Six years ago, I completed the Master in Cartography. Looking back at those student times, great memories come to my mind: interesting lectures (my favorite ones were web cartography and scientific vi...

Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA) – General Assembly 2019

Armand Kapaj, an alumnus of Cartography M.Sc., presented our students and alumni at the Erasmus Mundus Association’s 12th General Assembly 2019 in Vienna, Austria this year. The Erasmus Mundus A...

First Cartography alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova obtained a PhD degree

We are happy and proud to announce, that the first Cartography M.Sc. alumni Ekaterina Chuprikova from the 2nd intake finished her PhD research and defended her dissertation last Tuesday, January 22nd ...

Maria Rühringer presented her master thesis at the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference

From the 15th until the 19th of October the Ecosystem Service Partnership Regional Europe conference 2018 took place in San Sebastián in Spain. Ecosystem Services express the interactions between hum...

Congratulations to 11 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates

We are happy to congratulate the first students from the 6th intake who finished their Master’s thesis over the summer: Armand Kapaj, Maria Turchenko, Roar Engell, Christian Haack, Satarupa Chatterj...

Susanna Abraham is 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year

Our alumna Susanna Abraham has been selected as 2018 Esri Development Center Student of the Year. Susanna successfully finished her master thesis in our international Master of Science in Cartography...

Congratulations to 10 new Cartography M.Sc. graduates

We are happy to congratulate the next students from the 5th intake who finished their Master’s thesis in the last three months: Susanna Abraham, Kaidi Guo, Christopher Hogg, Kamila Cwik, Alika Jen...

Two awards for Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat

During the ISPRS Geospatial Week 2017 which took place in Wuhan, China, Cartography M.Sc. alumni Shayan Nikoohemat (1st intake) received the “Best youth oral paper award” as well as the ov...

Congratulations to the first graduates of the 5th intake

We are happy to congratulate our first Erasmus Mundus alumni of the 5th intake: Maja Kalinic, Dragana Subotic, Junyan Li, Chenyu Zuo, Md. Marufur Rahman and Kate Doyle. Combining Open-Source Programmi...

Graduation of Cartography students

We congratulate all our students from the 4th intake who finished their Master’s thesis this summer: Vasileios Toutziaris, Alexandra Strel, Dayanc Moradi, Vikram Devi Eswaramoorthy, Amir Ashkan ...

Cartography M.Sc. students and alumni at the International Cartographic Conference in Washington, D.C.

This week, the 28th International Cartographic Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. The bi-annual conference of the International Cartographic Association (ICA) is a huge celebration of cartogra...

Cartography EMA representative Armand Kapaj reports about the general assembly and annual conference

My journey as an Erasmus Mundus student started in May 2016 when I received the confirmation for being selected as a student of the International Master Programme CARTO E+ JMD Cartography. I have to a...

Master’s thesis presentation of Myles Cook

We congratulate Myles Cook, student of the 4th intake, for finishing his Master’s Thesis “An Empirical Evaluation of 2D and Interactive 3D Terrain Visualisations for Cycling Maps”. To assess...

Master’s thesis presentation of Aleksandra Draksler

On March 28, Aleksandra Draksler, student of the 4th intake, presented her Master thesis “The Effect of Satellite Image Resolution and Minimum Mapping Unit on the Accuracy of Forest Cover Maps&#...

Master Thesis Presentation: Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens

On February 1, Shuoyan Huang, student of the International Master in Cartography, presented her Master Thesis „Comparing mouse- and touch-based interaction for map search tasks on large screens“...

Ausschnitt des taktilen Atlas der Schweiz. Photo: Anna Vetter, Esri Schweiz

Cartography M.Sc. alumni involved in tactile atlas project

Our Cartography M.Sc. alumni Anna Vetter led the team who created the new “Tactile Atlas of Switzerland”. Anna works in Zürich for the mapping software company Esri. The new atlas is printed with...

OSM Mapping Day

Within the OSMGEOWEEK, teachers, students, community groups and map lovers around the world, join together to celebrate geography and make maps with OpenStreetMap, the free and openly editable map of ...

Master’s thesis presentation of Ethan Oleson

On September 14, Ethan Oleson, student of the 3rd intake, presented his Master thesis about “Generation of a high-quality physiographic map as a base for nature conservation and land planning...

Master Thesis Presentation: Motorway network depiction from OpenStreetMap data in accordance with cartographic demands

On September 9, Sigita Grīnfelde, student of the International Master in Cartography, presented her Master Thesis „Motorway network depiction from OpenStreetMap data in accordance with cartograp...

Master thesis presentation on 16.12.2015

On December 16, Francisco Daniel Porras Bernárdez, student of the International Master of Cartography (3rd intake), presented his master thesis on the topic of “Extraction of user’s sta...

Anna Vetter won the 2015 swisstopoEDU-MSc promotion programme

Anna Vetter, alumni of the second intake of the International Master of Cartography, won the 2015 swisstopoEDU-MSc promotion programme for her thesis The automatic generalisation of buildings whilst...

Master thesis presentation on 26.2.2015

On February 26, Anna Makrostergiou, student of the International Master of Cartography (2nd intake), presented her master thesis on the topic of Artistic Decorations in Early Modern Cartograph...

Presentation of three master theses on 5.12.2014

On Friday, December 5, three of our students successfully completed their studies in the International Master of Cartography (2nd intake) by presenting their theses: Alice Rühl: A Cartographic Appr...

Master’s thesis presentation of Jan Behrens

On 21 August 2014, Jan Behrens, student from the International Master in Cartography (2011 intake), successfully completed his master studies by presenting his thesis on the topic of „Testing th...

Master’s thesis presentation of Wangshu Wang

On 20 March 2014, Wangshu Wang, student from the International Master in Cartography (2011 intake), successfully completed her master studies by presenting her master thesis on the topic of „Modeli...