Maximilian Meier has defended his dissertation Search for Astrophysical Tau Neutrinos using 7.5 years of IceCube Data at the Chair of Astroparticle Physics. He has developed a new event selection for tau neutrinos in IceCube and found two tau neutrinos candidates in his analysis.

The members of the doctoral committee were Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Rhode (supervisor and first assessor), Prof. Dr. Bernhard Spaan (second assessor), Prof. Dmitri Yakovlev (chairman of the examination committee) and Dr. Gerald Schmidt (representative of the scientific staff of the faculty). Maximilian Meier was previously a research assistant at Chair E5 as a member of Collaborative Research Centre 876 (Project C3) and is now working as a postdoctoral fellow at Chiba University.