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Department of Statistics

Award for master's thesis on recycling & forecasting models

In the foreground one can see the green TU logo on the grass and in the background there is the Mathetower. © Nikolas Golsch​/​TU Dortmund
Leia Betting received an award from the department's Alumni Association for her Master's thesis on forecasting models in the returnable bottle system.

In collaboration with the recycling company REMONDIS, she developed models to better predict the quantities of returnable bottles. The aim is to make recycling and sorting processes more efficient and sustainable. The work was supervised by Jakob Becker and Markus Pauly. The research combines modern statistics and machine learning with practical applications in the circular economy and was published jointly in a conference paper at CPSL 2026 following the master's thesis.