Alternative for double genitive in "the author's master's thesis"

Im my PhD thesis I'm referring to my master's thesis. Avoiding first person, I would refer to it as "the/this author's master's thesis", but the double genitive s sounds clumsy to me.

Are there better alternatives?

Is it acceptable to write "the author's master thesis"?
As discussed here, here and here, it is generally preferable to say master's thesis, but master thesis seems not totally uncommon, as well.

Just use your surname and the date of your thesis as you would for any other reference. Let's pretend for a moment that your surname is Sebastian and you submitted your master's dissertation in 2010. You would reference like this:

• As is argued in Sebastian (2010), blah, blah, blah.

Note that the citation above refers to the work not the person. You could write:

• As argued by Sebastian (2010) ...

However, this would be a bit odd, as you could be taken to be referring to yourself by name. I'd advise against it. It may appear either just weird or disingenuous. (but that's just my opinion)

Also, it's a very good idea to check that within your field people always avoid referring to themselves in the first person. Within linguistics and philosophy for example, it is perfectly fine to refer to oneself as I. This doesn't stop even postgrad students from desperately trying to avoid it and making their prose unbearably awkward and stilted.

Dance around it.

It may be a good idea for this author to quote his master's thesis at this point.