Disputations

Doctoral candidate Maaike Francine Maria Weerdesteijn at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Solid earth deformation due to glacial mass changes above low-viscosity upper mantle: Model development, importance of contemporary ice melt, and an application to southeast Greenland for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Chloé Markussen Marcilly at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Modelling atmospheric CO₂ levels during the Phanerozoic: testing the main carbon sources and sinks as climate forcings over different timescales for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Florence Dela Cruz Ramirez at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Improving upper mantle viscosity estimates: Constraints from seismic and magnetotelluric data, and impacts on asthenospheric flow for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Volodya Valeriev Hlebnikov at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Deep learning as a tool for seismic data interpolation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jing Sun at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Deep learning-based seismic data processing for attenuation of interference noise and deblending in the shot domain for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Krister Stræte Karlsen at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Plate Tectonic Controls on Geodynamic Processes: Earth’s Deep Water Cycle, Sea Level Change and Planetary Cooling Patterns for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ella Wulfsberg Stokke at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Linking climatic changes and North Atlantic volcanism across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Fur, Denmark for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alexandra Zaputlyaeva at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Fluid geochemistry and migration processes at the Lusi mud eruption, Indonesia for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Joost Martijn van den Broek at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis The role of subduction in the formation and evolution of continental fragments and microcontinents for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Eivind Olavson Straume at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Paleoclimate in the Cenozoic time: Quantifying the role of North Atlantic plate tectonics and mantle processes for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dmitrii Zastrozhnov at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Regional Structure and basin Development of the mid-Norwegian Volcanic Passive Margin: Anatomy of a Polyphased Rifted System for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Björn Holger Heyn at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Geodynamics of Earth’s Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces Interaction with mantle flow, plume initiation, and core-mantle boundary deformation" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hans Jørgen Kjøll at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Evolution of the Pre-Caledonian Magma-rich Margin of Baltica" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Thea Hatlen Heimdal at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Large-scale sill emplacement of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) in the Amazonas and Solimões basins, Brazil: a multidisciplinary approach to unravel the environmental implications for the end-Triassic crisis

Pingchuan Tan at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Magmatic development of the Jan Mayen - East Greenland area, NE Atlantic

Nils Charles Prieur at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: The influence of target properties on simple crater evolution — Application to the Moon

Marzena Anna Baron at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Experimental constraints on Earth’s lower mantle melting and core formation