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Subscribe to our Topic Discovery Digest to find thesis topics, tools and resources that can help you significantly improve the world.

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Are you a bachelors, masters or PhD student searching for a thesis or research project that has great potential to significantly improve the world? Start by exploring the thesis topics we recommend and applying for coaching. We’ll help you find the ideas and resources you need to increase your impact.

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Explore thesis topics

Find ideas and topics for your thesis and thesis statement by exploring our informative research profiles.

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Coaching

Our coaches can offer you tailored advice and potentially connect you to experienced researchers in your field and our community of students.

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Supervisors

Access our database of potential thesis supervisors who work in the research directions we recommended.

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Alumni Network

Apply to our alumni network to share ideas and get inspiration from other students seeking to do as much good as possible with their research.

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Funding

Find funding for your PhD studies focused on one of our recommended research directions.

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Opportunities

Find jobs, internships, prizes and scholarships related to the research directions we recommend in our Opportunities Board.

Students we've advised

Our expert network

Our coaches can connect you to researchers from our network of over 100 experts, who can help you find the most important open questions in your field.

Philip Trammel

Philip Trammel is a research affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University. He advises students on applications of economic theory to global priorities research.

Dr Cassidy Nelson

Cassidy Nelson is Co-Lead of the Biosecurity Research Group at the Future of Humanity Institute. She advises students on health security, biosecurity and pandemic prevention.

Vanessa Kosoy

Vanessa is a research associate at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. She advises students in mathematics, computer science and other quantitative degrees interested in human aligned artificial intelligence research.

Prof David Denkenberger

David Denkenberger co-founded and directs the Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). He has 65 peer-reviewed publications and is the third most prolific author in the field of existential and global catastrophic risk.

Maxime Stauffer

Maxime is a co-founder and chief executive officer of the Simon Institute for Longterm Governance. Max advises students in political science, behavioural sciences, mathematics and physics interested in improving political decision making.

Parendi Birdie

Parendi Birdie is the Head of Brand Strategy at Mission Barns. She advises students who are interested in both technical and non-technical areas of the field of cellular agriculture.

David Moss

David is the Principal Research Manager at Rethink Priorities and a research fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. David advises students interested in moral psychology and empirical social science.

All others

There are many other researchers and collaborators for whose support we are very grateful.

Research advice

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