Tidligere disputaser - Side 2

Msc. Nico König at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Structure and Exchange Kinetics of Nanocrystalline Micelles, Telechelic Hydrogels and Self-Assembling Antimicrobial Peptides » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Helge Spieker at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Software Testing in Continuous Integration with Machine Learning and Constraint Optimization for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lise Ellefsen Sandquist at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Novel mechanisms of DNA damage and replication stress signaling: Functional roles of the WDR82/PNUTS-PP1 phosphatase complex" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kristin Jensen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Iterative reconstruction in CT imaging; Image quality and radiation doses" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Márcia Raquel da Silva e Sousa Vagos at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis A computational study of Atrial Fibrillation mechanisms at the cardiomyocyte level for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctorial Candidate Franziska Franeck at Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis Perspectives on the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: local to global patterns.

Doctoral candidate Dalimir Orfanus at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Methodology for Engineering Emergent Self-Organization in Massively Distributed Embedded Systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Elise Østmo at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Coordinating Patient Information in HIV/AIDS Care with Hybrid Health Information Systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate  at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Molecular investigation of receptor kinase signaling specificity in Arabidopsis thaliana" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hedda Johannesen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Unmasking the Assassin - A structural and functional analysis of the anti-tumour antibody 14F7: providing new insight into the NeuGc GM3 binding mechanism" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anna Kristine Fæhn Follestad at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Forecasting Space Weather Effects on GNSS Systems" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Dmitrii Zastrozhnov ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Regional Structure and basin Development of the mid-Norwegian Volcanic Passive Margin: Anatomy of a Polyphased Rifted System for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Britt Paulsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Total Synthesis of Agelasine F and Synthesis towards ent-Ageloxime D: Two Natural Products with Interesting Biological Activities » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Fabian Maximilian Faulstich at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Mathematical Aspects of Coupled-Cluster Theory in Chemistry » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Bikas Chandra Bhattarai ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Hydrologic model forcing over the Himalaya for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Trond Flisnes Bergh at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis:  Practical and theoretical aspects of digital beamforming with microphone arrays for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jérémie Lagravière at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis The PGAS Programming Model and Mesh Based Computation: an HPC Challenge for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ketil Stoknes at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Circular food; crops from digested waste in a controlled environment" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jørgen S. Dokken at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Shape Optimization for Finite Element Methods for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Thomas Trunk at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterization and comparative analyses of type Vd-secreted phospholipases expressed in pathogenic bacteria" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Antonio Gonzalez Burgueño at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis: Formal Analysis for Security Ceremonies for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Christian Zimmermann at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Revealing the Origin of electrically-active Defects in β-Ga₂O₃ and r-TiO₂ "

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hemin Ali Qadir at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Development of Image Processing Algorithms for the Automatic screening of Colon Cancer Based on Video Capture for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc José Pedro Moreirão Cerca Monteiro de Oliveira at Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "On the origin of cryptic species: Insights from the Stygocapitella species complex." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Hans Vigeland Lerum at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Removing Contaminants from non-ideal Hydrometallurgical Solutions – Assessment of Cd (II) Liquid-liquid Extraction with Aliquat 336 in Toluene» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Trude Magnussen at Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Integrative taxonomy and systematics of Allodia Winnertz (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Sirikarn Narongsirikul ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Acoustic, elastic, and physical properties of overconsolidated sands and reservoir fluids – Experimental measurements, modelling, and implications for reservoir characterization, time-lapse seismic monitoring, and geomechanics for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Rolf Anton Klaasen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "New concepts for personalized immunosuppression in the transplanted patient" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Umair Najeeb Mughal at the Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Study of a novel atmospheric icing monitor"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Domas Birenis at the Department Of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

“Fundamental investigations of hydrogen embrittlement by using electron microscopy”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Jørgen André Hansen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Quantitative analysis of source, reservoir and cap rocks from the Norwegian Continental Shelf - An integrated study of geology, geophysics, petropyhsics and rock physics for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Jakob Brandt Utne Haldorsen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Three-Component Borehole-Seismic Data for graden Doctor Philosophiae (Dr. philos).

Ph.d.-kandidat Katrine Fossum ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Jurassic - Cretaceous stratigraphic development of the Mandawa Basin, Tanzania: An integrated sedimentological and heavy mineral study of the early post-rift succession for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Emil Sebastian Gutterød at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « On the hydrogenation of CO2 over Pt-functionalized UiO-67 Metal-Organic Frameworks» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Aina Juell Bugge ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Aspects of automated seismic interpretation for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Torunn Kjeldstad at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Characterization and functionalization of self-assembled nanostructures"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Silje Larsen Rekdal ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling "Major histocompatibility complex and mate choice in two passerine birds" for ph.d.-graden.

Msc. Kaiqi Xu at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis   «Artificial photosynthesis – Advanced nanomaterials and use of biocatalysts for novel photoelectrochemical cells» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Gurpreet Kaur at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Optimization of UiO-67 type Metal-Organic Frameworks for Catalysis» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Sigbjørn Løland Bore at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Advances in the Hybrid Particle-Field Approach: Towards Biological Systems" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Olja Dordic at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Charged dihadron azimuthal correlations in pp and Pb-Pb collisions, measured with the ALICE detector"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Desta Haileselassie Hagos by the Department of Technology Systems will be defending his thesis 

"Discovering the Dynamic Complexity of TCP Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Vegard Skiftestad Olsen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Functional Properties and Band Gap Engineering of ZnO-GaN Alloys"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Anna Elisabeth van Yperen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen From river to delta: down-dip changes in facies, architecture, and key stratigraphic surfaces in a low-accommodation setting for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Synnøve Smebye Botnen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Biodiversity in the dark: root-associated fungi in the Arctic for the degree of PhD.

MSc Synnøve Smebye Botnen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Biodiversity in the dark: root-associated fungi in the Arctic.

Ph.d.-kandidat Øystein Skjærvø ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Paper-based smart sampling for bottom-up protein analysis" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tor Inge Birkenes Lønmo at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Adaptive Beamforming and Autocalibration for Swath Sonars" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ingrid Digernes at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

"Mapping the vessel architecture of brain cancer by advanced perfusion MRI"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hrafnhildur Jónasdóttir at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Creativity Under Pressure in Digital Innovation: The Case of Norwegian Game Development Start-ups" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Xue Yang ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Evaluation of regionalization methods for runoff prediction in ungauged basins in Norway for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Trenton Wade Schulz at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Exploration of Moving Things in the Home for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Timo Klock at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Model-based function learning in high dimensions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Petter Langlete ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Isolation of bacterial vesicles and characterisation of their genetic cargo" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Boris Simovski at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Genomic colocalization - an integrative framework for statistical analysis of sets of genomic tracks"for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Pawel Kozlowski at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Improved ultrasound guidance during minimally invasive cardiac procedures ” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Runa Barik at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Measuring the Impact of Middleboxes on Internet Protocols ” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Hossein Fazeli ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Modeling of CO₂-Water-Rock Interactions in Fractured Seals for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Vegard Torp Lien ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Development of diagnostic and therapeutic tools for MET and associated targets in cancer" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andrea Alessandro Gasparini at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Design Thinking for Design Capabilities in an Academic Library” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Björn Holger Heyn ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Geodynamics of Earth’s Large Low Shear Velocity Provinces Interaction with mantle flow, plume initiation, and core-mantle boundary deformation" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sigvald Marholm at the Department Of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

The Unstructured Particle-In-Cell Method with Applications for Objects in Ionospheric Plasmas

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Adriana Magalhães Santos Andresen ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Transcriptome profiling of virus and adjuvant induced innate immune responses in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Abhishek Singh at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Privacy- Preserving Data Dissemination in User Groups” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Inger Helene Hafsahl Karset ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Enhancing the confidence in estimates of effective radiative forcing by aerosol through improved global modelling" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Håkon Sætren Gulbrandsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Synthesis of Phenanthridine - Containing Polycyclic Ring Systems through Intramolecular Diels-Alder Reaction on Furan (IMDAF)” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alessio Paolo Buccino at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “A computationally-assisted approach to neural extracellular electrophysiology with multi-electrode arrays” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Hao Zhao ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Improvements in seismic imaging and migration-velocity model building" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Walaa Abuelmagd ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Management of Type 2 Diabetes in Non-Western Patient Groups. Results from Pakistani and Kurdish immigrant populations in Norway and from the native population in the United Arab Emirates" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Sissel Hauge at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Targeting cancer cells through inhibition of cell cycle checkpoint kinases for the degree of PhD.

MSc Sissel Hauge ved Institutt for Biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Targeting cancer cells through inhibition of cell cycle checkpoint kinases

Msc. Bjørn Helge Morland at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Corrosion in CO2 transport pipeline. Formation of corrosive phases in dense phase CO2” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Magdalena Kersting at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

“General Relativity in Secondary School - Research-Based Development of Learning Resources and Analyses of Students’ Conceptual Understanding Using the Model of Educational Reconstruction”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Torben Lode at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Anxious copepods in the Anthropocene: interactive effects of biotic stressors on contaminant responses for the degree of PhD.

MSc Torben Lode ved Institutt for Biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Anxious copepods in the Anthropocene: interactive effects of biotic stressors on contaminant responses

Doctoral candidate Flávia Dias Casagrande at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Sensor Event and Activity Prediction using Binary Sensors in Real Homes with Older Adults" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kine Mari Bakke at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Assessing cancer aggressiveness by functional magnetic resonance imaging" 

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Dimitrios Pappas at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis ‘Direct Methane to Methanol Conversion over Cu-Exchanged Zeolites: Building Structure - Activity Relationships for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Marthe Fredheim Fjelldal ved Farmasøytisk institutt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Properties of glutamate receptor subunit GluN2B antagonists and effects of prenatal opioid exposure - studies in chicken and rat" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Andreas Nygård Osnes by the Department of Technology Systems will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor:   

"Shock-induced flow through particle clouds"

MSc Amund Ruud at the Department of Chemistry is defending the thesis: « Novel Materials and Operando Studies for Lithium-Ion Batteries» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc. Arne Skjærholt at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“On morpho-syntactic annotation: Methodological investigations of efficiency and quality”

Sigbjørn Grini at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“Band gap grading and impurities in Cu2ZnSnS4 solar cells” 

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Emanuele Lapponi at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"The Language Analysis Portal: Design, implementation and use"

Msc. Chandan Kumar at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis ‘Efficient calculations of magnetic and electric response properties for ground and excited states’ for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Felix Matt ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Impacts of Light-Absorbing Impurities in Snow and Ice on Hydrology" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Roberto Calogero Cardella at the Department Of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis

CMOS Detector and System Developments for LHC Detector Upgrades

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Guro Marie Wyller at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

Experimental investigations of monosilane pyrolysis

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Ole Marius Hoel Rindal at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Software Beamforming in Medical Ultrasound Imaging - a blessing and a curse"

Ph.d.-kandidat Robert Hagala ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Astrophysical Simulations for Uncovering Signatures of Gravity" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc. Konstantin Pogorelov  at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Deep EIR: A Holistic Medical Multimedia System for Gastrointestinal Tract Disease Detection and Localization “

Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

The low-energy enhancement

An experimental and theoretical study of nuclear

level densities and γ-ray strength functions

for the degree of PhD

Anette Hauge at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“The tumor microenvironment and its assessment with DCE-MRI and DW-MRI”

for the degree of Doctor Philosophiae (dr.philos.).

M.Sc. Ioana Livadariu at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Monitoring and understanding IPv6 adoption” 

Ph.d.-kandidat Aynom Tesfay Teweldebrhan ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Ensemble-based uncertainty quantification and reduction in hydrological modelling and predictions" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Håvard Svanes Bertelsen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Beyond Elasticity - An Experimental Study of Magma Emplacement Mechanisms and Associated Deformation Structures" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Huy M. Hoang at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"High-Spatial-resolution electron density measurements using the needle Langmuir system on different space platforms"

for the degree of PhD

Ph.d.-kandidat Kristoffer Aalstad ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Ensemble-based retrospective analysis of the seasonal snowpack" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Sarmad W. Saeed at the Department of Chemistry is defending the thesis Defect chemistry of heterointerfaces in ion conducting oxides for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Eivind Hasvik at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Lumbar radicular pain and disc herniation: Genetic factors, pathophysiological mechanisms and pain assessments for the degree of PhD.

MSc Eivind Hasvik ved Institutt for Biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Lumbar radicular pain and disc herniation: Genetic factors, pathophysiological mechanisms and pain assessments

M.Sc. Bjørnar Steinnes Luteberget at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Automated Reasoning in Railway Construction Planning"

Ph.d.-kandidat Jan Daniel Morad ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Burial diagenesis and thermochemical sulfate reduction in the Arab gas reservoirs - clues to controls on H₂S distribution" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Tarjei Bondevik at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Grain boundaries in a BaZrO3-based proton conductor  A theoretical and experimental study on atomic scale"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Elsa Cecconello at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

Modelling and removal of time-varying sea-surface and overburden effects in multi-component data

M.Sc.  Eunji Lee at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Making the invisible visible: Understanding complex healthcare service processes for assessment “

Henrik Andersen Sveinsson at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Molecular dynamics modeling of mechanical failure processes in methane hydrates"

for the degree of PhD

Master i farmasi Kristine Skoglund Ask ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Paralell artificial liquid membrane extraction for quantification of small molecule drugs in biological matrices.

Øyvind Sunde at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatites in the Larvik Plutonic Complex, Norway" for the degree of PhD.

Øyvind Sunde ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling "Mineralogy and geochemistry of pegmatites in the Larvik Plutonic Complex, Norway" for ph.d.-graden.

Lars Musland at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Theory and calculations of thermoelectric transport in heterostructures"

for the degree of PhD

Cand. it. Stine Loft Rasmussen  at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Understanding Conditions of Uncertainty in Disease Surveillance and Response in Burkina Faso: An inquiry into the sociological aspects of health information construction and use “

M.Sc. Ivar Grytten at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Graph-based Reference Genomes – Approaches and Applications” 

Anastasia Sokolenko at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Enlightening the Dark"

for the degree of PhD

Kathinka Elinor Pitman at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Dynamic PET and DCE-MRI With Pharmacokinetic Modelling for Cancer Characterisation and Response Monitoring Preclinical Studies in Tumour Xenograft Models"

for the degree of PhD

Ph.d.-kandidat Harald Thommesen ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Observing the CMB Sky with GreenPol, SPIDER and Planck" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc Nelson Wang at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Bacterial protein glycosylation: a perspective from the genus Neisseria for the degree of PhD.

MSc Nelson Wang ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Bacterial protein glycosylation: a perspective from the genus Neisseria

Master i biomatematikk Anna-Simone Josefine Frank ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Thyroid hormone replacement therapy during pregnancy - Quantifying medication patterns and associated outcomes in the offspring.

M.Sc. Justinas Mišeikis at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“An Environment-Aware Robot Arm Platform Using Low-Cost Sensors and Deep Learning”

Vegard Børve Sørdal at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Entropy production and information processing in stochastic thermodynamics: Optimization, measurement, and erasure"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Norith Eckbo at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The narratives of conservation in ecotoxicology: vulnerability and suspectibility to contaminants in polar seabirds" for the degree of PhD.

MSc Norith Eckbo ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: The narratives of conservation in ecotoxicology: vulnerability and suspectibility to contaminants in polar seabirds.

MSc Katharine Rose Dean at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The epidemiology of plague in Europe: inferring transmission dynamics from historical data for the degree of PhD.

MSc Katharine Rose Dean ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: The epidemiology of plague in Europe: inferring transmission dynamics from historical data.

Espen Rusten at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Positron emission tomography for radiotherapy planning and outcome prediction"

for the degree of PhD

Anders Hafreager at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Efficient workflows in molecular Dynamics simulations and Applications"

for the degree of PhD

Marius Ladegård Meyer at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Binary Bose gases in synthetic magnetic fields"

for the degree of PhD

Ph.d.-kandidat Hans Jørgen Kjøll ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Neoproterozoic to Lower Paleozoic Evolution of the Pre-Caledonian Magma-rich Margin of Baltica" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc. Murhaf Fares at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Noun–Noun Compound Analysis: A Holistic Perspective”

M.Sc. Ksenia Khelik at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Improved computational approaches for genome assembly accuracy assessment and error correction"

Doctoral candidate Arianne Juliette Petley-Ragan at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis: Earthquakes and Metamorphism in the Lower Crust, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc. Øystein Slagtern Fjellvåg at the Department of Chemistry is defending the thesis Oxyhydrides – Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Properties for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.Sc. Ayub Shisia Manya at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Understanding the Role of Institutional Incentives in Shaping Data Quality and Information Use in Devolved Health Systems: A Case of Health Information System Implementation in Kenya

M.Sc. Karoline Horgmo Jæger at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Cell-Based Mathematical Models of Small Collections of Excitable Cells"

MSc Chloé Rebecca Nater at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Impacts of harvesting, hydropower, and stocking on a size-structured population of brown trout for the degree of PhD.

MSc Chloé Rebecca Nater ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Impacts of harvesting, hydropower, and stocking on a size-structured population of brown trout.

Master i farmasi Nils Gunnar Løvsletten ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Impact of exercise and modulation of triancylglycerol dynamics on lipid metabolism in human skeletal muscle cells.

Master i farmasi Ngoc Dieu Nguyen Lunde ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: The cysteine protease legumain - from cell biology to cardiovascular disease.

Master i bioteknologi Seethapathy Gopalakrishnan Saroja ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Ethnobotany, phytochemistry and DNA metabarcoding studies on Indian traditional medicine.

MSc Algirdas Grevys at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Biological properties of Fc engineered IgG for the degree of PhD.

MSc Algirdas Grevys ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Biological properties of Fc engineered IgG

MSc Srinidhi Varadharajan at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Comparative genomics in teleost fish: Insights into forces driving genome evolution for the degree of PhD.

MSc Srinidhi Varadharajan ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Comparative genomics in teleost fish: Insights into forces driving genome evolution

M.Sc. Matthew Good at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Technology Transfer Support at Universities: An Ecosystem Design Approach”

M.Sc.  Łukasz Farian at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Biologically Inspired Sensors for Attitude Determination and Color Processing"

Le Xu at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Experimental Observations of Dissolution in Fractures in Circular Geometry"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Patrick Albert Chikumba  at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Geodata Maintenance and Collaboration in GIS Implementation in Health Sector in a Developing Country Context: The Case of DHIS2 GIS in Malawi”

Vikram Goel at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Current status and past evolution of ice rises in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica

MSc Øyvind Nøstdahl Gløersen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"On the bioenergetics of cross-country skiing"

for the degree of PhD

Master i farmasi Erlend Johannessen Egeland ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Pharmacokinetic challenges in renal replacement therapy.

MSc Barbro Taraldset Haugland at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Effects of fish farm effluents on kelp forest ecosystems: Kelp performance, associated species, and habitats for the degree of PhD.

MSc Barbro Taraldset Haugland ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Effects of fish farm effluents on kelp forest ecosystems: Kelp performance, associated species, and habitats.

Master i farmasi Caroline Gjestad ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Studies on 4 β -hydroxycholesterol as an endogenous biomarker for CYP3A4 phenotype­­­.

M.Sc. Fernando Macias Gomez de Villar at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Multilevel Modelling and Domain-Specific Languages”

MSc Andrea Silke Sahlmann at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis DNA strand breaks in marine invertebrates for the degree of PhD.

MSc Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Marine reserves and selective fishing shape mating behaviour, secondary sexual trait and growth in European lobster.

MSc Andrea Silke Sahlmann ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: DNA strand breaks in marine invertebrates.

MSc Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Marine reserves and selective fishing shape mating behaviour, secondary sexual trait and growth in European lobster.

M.Sc. Ijlal Loutfi  at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Trusted Execution on Commodity Devices Use Case: Online User Authentication”

M.Sc. Viviane Timmermann at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"A Computational Study of Mechano-Electric Feedback Mechanisms"

M.Sc. Lorena Arcega at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Feature and Bug Localization on Model-based Systems at Design time and Runtime”

Christopher Sæbø Serck at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Extensional Faulting and Folding in Sedimentary Growth Basins: Case Studies from Seismic and Outcrop Data

Master i farmasi Linda Vårdal ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Microextraction of benzodiazepines and drugs of abuse with supported liquid membranes.

Svenn-Arne Dragly at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Computational tools for integrative neuroscience"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Pernille Nilsson at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The evolutionary arms race between plague and great gerbil – burrowing into host resistance for the degree of PhD.

MSc Pernille Nilsson ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: The evolutionary arms race between plague and great gerbil – burrowing into host resistance.

M.Sc. Sumit Pandey at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Designing Smart Things”

Andreas Våvang Solbrå at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Modeling electrical and diffusive transports in neural tissue"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Endre Hegland Hjort Kure at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Theoretical and Data-Driven Approaches for Energy-Efficient Networks"

M.Sc. Simen Tennøe at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Uncertainty quantification in neuroscience”

Christian Sætre at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Basalt Alteration and Implications - From Mars to the UK Continental Shelf

Master i molekylær biovitenskap Anne Marte Sjursen Kvello ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: The contribution of 6-acetylmorphine to heroin-induced effects: Studies of pharmacokinetics, behavior and immunotherapeutic intervention using a monoclonal antibody in mice.

Mads Eide Ingebrigtsen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Electrical characterization and identification of deep levels in β-Ga2O3"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Rahel Frick at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Engineering TCR-like Antibodies for the degree of PhD.

MSc Rahel Frick ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Engineering TCR-like Antibodies.

MSc Daniel Pitz Jacobsen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Psychological and physiological factors underlying stress-induced health complaints in victims of bullying for the degree of PhD.

MSc Daniel Pitz Jacobsen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Psychological and physiological factors underlying stress-induced health complaints in victims of bullying

M.Sc. Francisco Javier Velázquez-García at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Middleware Mobility Services for Self-adaptive Multimedia Processing in Ubiquitous Computing Environments"

MSc Even Sannes Riiser at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Spilling the guts: Investigations of the Atlantic cod intestinal microbiome for the degree of PhD.

MSc Even Sannes Riiser ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Spilling the guts: Investigations of the Atlantic cod intestinal microbiome.

M.Sc. Karina Vieira Hoel at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Exploring New Design Possibilities of Broadband, Passive Microwave Systems with Additive Manufacturing"

M.Sc. Elisabeth Fruijtier at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Scaling ICT4D Sustainably: A Naturalistic Inquiry of District Health Information Software (DHIS) 2"

Ilia Kolevatov at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“Interaction of Vacancies with Common Impurities in Crystalline Silicon”

for the degree of PhD

Cand. Pharm Marianne Lea ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Towards safer drug therapy and improved clinical outcomes in elderly and multimorbid patients.

Sonja Daniela Kistenich  ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling Molecular systematics, taxonomy, and museomics of tropical Ramalinaceae. for ph.d.-graden.

Sonja Daniela Kistenich  ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling Molecular systematics, taxonomy, and museomics of tropical Ramalinaceae. for ph.d.-graden.

M.Sc. Daniel Paul Lupp at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"A Higher-Level View of Ontological Modeling: Rule-Based Approaches for Data Transformation, Modeling, and Maintenance"

MSc Katrine Wickstrøm at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Exploring Targeted Thorium Conjugate and Small Molecule Combinations: New Effective Treatments for Cancer for the degree of PhD.

MSc Katrine Wickstrøm ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Exploring Targeted Thorium Conjugate and Small Molecule Combinations: New Effective Treatments for Cancer.

MSc Ignacio Cuervo at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Unravelling transcriptional regulation through chromatin interacting proteins and SUMOylation for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ignacio Cuervo ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Unravelling transcriptional regulation through chromatin interacting proteins and SUMOylation.

M.Sc. Aleksandar Babic at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Echocardiographic fusion imaging in cardiac resynchronization therapy and coronary computed tomography angiography”

Paula Hilger at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Rock-slope failures in Norway – temporal development and climatic conditioning

Xiaojiao Zheng at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Reaction-induced fracturing in confined systems

MSc Leonie Färber at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Understanding population dynamics and variability in fish stocks in response to fishing pressure and climate chang for the degree of PhD.

MSc Leonie Färber ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Understanding population dynamics and variability in fish stocks in response to fishing pressure and climate change.

MSc Ida Marie Johannessen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Endosperm-based post-zygotic hybridization barriers in Arabidopsis for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ida Marie Johannessen ved Institutt for bioviteskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Endosperm-based post-zygotic hybridization barriers in Arabidopsis.

Ørjan Markussen at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Petrographical evolution of reservoir formations in the Edvard Grieg field, North Sea - a study of porosity, permeability and pore geometry development through time

Stine Gyland Mikalsen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Selective targeting of hypoxic T-47D and HT29 cancer cells by internal ultra-low dose-rate [³H]- labelled valine irradiation: in vitro and in vivo studies"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Sandra Gran Stadniczeñko at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF PROTISTS AND THEIR VIRUSES IN THE SKAGERRAK for the degree of PhD.

MSc Sandra Gran Stadniczeñko ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: DIVERSITY AND COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF PROTISTS AND THEIR VIRUSES IN THE SKAGERRAK

Runar James Strand-Amundsen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Assessment of small intestinal viability – A bioimpedance approach"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Ella Thoen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Functional versatility and diversity in the plant root mycobiome for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ella Thoen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Functional versatility and diversity in the plant root mycobiome

M.Sc. Dipesh Pradhan  at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Evolutionary Computation Based Test Optimization of Large-Scale Systems”

M.Sc Jon Einar Bratvold vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Towards a Model System for Lamellar Magnetism by Atomic Layer Deposition" 

Master i farmasi Kristine Hole ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: 4ß-Hydroxycholesterol as biomarker for variation in CYP3A activity.

Oskar A. Landgren at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Natural variability and climate response in relation to North-Atlantic polar lows and regional climate change

MSc Heidi Dietrichson Pharo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Urine-based detection of bladder cancer - optimizing technology and identifying DNA methylation biomarkers for the degree of PhD.

MSc Heidi Dietrichson Pharo ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Urine-based detection of bladder cancer - optimizing technology and identifying DNA methylation biomarkers

M.Sc Joël Benjamin Heim vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Pulling the “sweet tooth” of bacterial toxins – An investigation using X-ray crystallography and carbohydrate interaction analysis"

M.Sc. Qihao Li at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Channel-Awareness and Dependability in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks"

M.Sc. Ling Shi at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Enabling Semantic Interoperability for State-owned Real Property Data"

Jesús Rodríguez Sánchez at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Experimental study of brittle or ductile behaviour of mineral cements"

for the degree of PhD

Lei Li at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Nanoconfined Calcite Growth in situ. Microfluidic Channel, Growth rims, Cavity, Crystallation pressure and Disjoining pressure”

for the degree of PhD

Lisa De Ruiter at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Rock cementation by magnesium silicate hydrate

M.Sc Kristian Blindheim Lausund vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Metal-Organic Frameworks by Molecular Layer Deposition”

Thomas Neset Sky at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Impurity Diffusion in Single Crystal Zinc Oxide"

for the degree of PhD

Valentin Zuchuat at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Continental to Shallow Marine Transition in a Tide-Dominated, Low Accommodation basin - Controlling Factors and Depositional Architecture

Veronica Kristine Berglyd Olsen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Beam Loading in a Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerator"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc Marte Sofie Martinsen Holmsen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Small-Molecule Activation at Gold: Synthesis and Reactivity of Cyclometalated Au(III) Complexes”

MSc Agnieszka Wrobel at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Structural and functional studies of the Yersinia ruckeri inverse autotransporters for the degree of PhD.

MSc Agnieszka Wrobel ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Structural and functional studies of the Yersinia ruckeri inverse autotransporters

Cand.scient. Asbjørn Danielsen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Methods and Technologies for Recognizing and Predicting Bedside Falls using Non-invasive Sensing"

Ankit Pramanik at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Climatic Mass Balance and Meltwater Routing of Glacierized area of Kongsfjord basin, northwest Svalbard

Joanna Dziadkowiec at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Interactions between Confined Calcite Surfaces in Aqueous Solutions. A surface forces apparatus study."

for the degree of PhD

Master i farmasi Maren Chrisin Stillesby Levernæs ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Affinity-based sample preparation in targeted protein analysis by bottom-up liquid chromatography mass spectrometry.

M.Sc. Esther Namatovu Landén at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"MHealth systems, Transformations in Work and Implications for Sustainability"

Carl Andreas Lindstrøm at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Emittance growth and preservation in a plasma-based linear collider"

for the degree of PhD

Master i teknologi Renate Kristianslund ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Organocatalyzed Halocyclizations: New Methods and Application in Total Synthesis.

M.Sc. Jonas Halvorsen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Sound and complete query federation of SPARQL BGPs”

Azadeh Abravan at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Normal tissue evaluation in lung cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy and erlotinib therapy using FDG-PET/CT and blood biomarkers"

for the degree of PhD

Asbjørn Ulvestad at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Performance and Characteristics of Silicon Nitride as a Convertible Alloy Anode Material for Li-ion Batteries"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Roza Berhanu Lemma at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Novel mechanisms controlling the interplay between SUMOylation, chromatin remodeling and transcription — A study of the functional interaction between the SUMO-protease SENP1, the chromatin remodeler CHD3 and the pioneer transcription factor c-Myb for the degree of PhD.

MSc Roza Berhanu Lemma ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Novel mechanisms controlling the interplay between SUMOylation, chromatin remodeling and transcription — A study of the functional interaction between the SUMO-protease SENP1, the chromatin remodeler CHD3 and the pioneer transcription factor c-Myb.

MSc Inger Lise Nerland Bråte at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Microplastics in marine fish and mussels: occurrence and effects for the degree of PhD.

MSc Inger Lise Nerland Bråte ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Microplastics in marine fish and mussels: occurrence and effects

M.Sc. Lars Vidar Magnusson at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of PhD:

“Using Automatic Programming to Improve Image Analysis Algorithms”

Mohammad Nooraiepour at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Rock Properties and Sealing Efficiency in Fine-grained Siliciclastic Caprocks - Implications for CSS and Petroleum Industry

M.Sc Somrutai Poothong vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs): from external exposure to human blood”

MSc Thomas Håbu Qureishy at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Magneto-optical imaging of advanced superconductors"

for the degree of PhD

MSc Meriam Guellil at The Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Disease during the Second Plague Pandemic (14th-18th century CE): Genomic, Metagenomic and Phylogenetic Analysis of ancient DNA from putative plague victims for the degree of PhD.

MSc Meriam Guellil ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Disease during the Second Plague Pandemic (14th-18th century CE): Genomic, Metagenomic and Phylogenetic Analysis of ancient DNA from putative plague victims.

M.Sc. Mikael Gebre-Mariam at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

“Digitalization Trajectories of Health Information Systems and the Role of Governance in Development Projects”

Master i farmasi Veronica Krogstad ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Studies of hepatic, intestinal and renal pharmacokinetic processes contributing to variability in drug disposition and response.

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

M.Sc Raphael Mathias Peltzer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Multi-scale computational modelling of bio-chemical systems in the condensed phase”

M.Sc Santosh Reddy Alluri vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Target oriented synthesis methods for imaging of proteins linked to cell-damage”

MSc Inger Kirstine Olsbu at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Substrate recognition and redox partner identification in nitric oxide synthases for the degree of PhD.

MSc Inger Kirstine Olsbu ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Substrate recognition and redox partner identification in nitric oxide synthases

M.Sc. Yushan Pan at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

From field to simulator: Visualising ethnographic outcomes to support systems developers

M.Sc. Dang Ha The Hien at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Big Data Analytics for the Future Energy System"

M.Sc. Sturla Bakke at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Mediating thoughts and streams of action: Complex intuitive interactions in a skilled worker environment.

M.Sc Erik Jimmy Jakobsson vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Development of efficient (radio)fluorination reactions of hypervalent iodinanes for synthesising Electron rich [18F]fluoroarenes for imaging of N-methyl-Daspartate receptors”

Doctoral candidate Lukáš Malina at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Novel beam-based correction and stabilisation methods for particle accelerators"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Leif Harald Karlsen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"A simple, General and Efficient Representation of Qualitative Spatial Information; An Approach Based on Bintrees"

Doctoral candidate Parampreet Singh Walia at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"“Phenomenology of Thermally produced Dark matter”

for the degree of PhD

MSc Berihun Gebremedhin at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Conservation status of the endangered Walia ibex – genetic variation, habitat suitability and climate change impact for the degree of PhD.

MSc Berihun Gebremedhin ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Conservation status of the endangered Walia ibex – genetic variation, habitat suitability and climate change impact.

M.Sc Eirik Mydske Thoresen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Cyclometalated Ruthenium(II) Complexes and their Incorporation into the Metal-Organic Framework UiO-67 for Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction”

Siv.ing. Cecilie Skjold Granerød at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Measuring optical properties on a nanoscale: a STEM-EELS study of ZnO"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc Katarzyna Anna Lukaszuk vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Controlling the morphology of zeolite crystals in OFF and MTT/TON systems”

M.Sc Sarah Reimann vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Treatment of Magnetic Fields in Density-Functional Theory ”

Cand.scient. Ruben Alexander Pettersen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis On the biology of Gyrodactylus spp. and their hosts in natural and human influenced freshwater systems for the degree of PhD.

Cand.scient. Ruben Alexander Pettersen ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: On the biology of Gyrodactylus spp. and their hosts in natural and human influenced freshwater systems.

M.Sc Emily McHale vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“The Development of Lignin-Like Oligomers for the Consolidation of Waterlogged Archaeological Wood”

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

Hanna Nyborg Støstad  ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling The evolution and function of sperm head morphology in songbirds for ph.d.-graden.

MSc Helga Margrete Bodahl Holmestad at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Data analysis, simulations, and reconstruction of anti-proton annhilations in a silicon pixel detector” ”

for the degree of PhD

MSc Audun Skaugen at the Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"A unified perspective on two-dimensional quantum turbulence and plasticity"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Johanna Beate Stumpf at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of PhD:

"Virtually Timed Ambients: A Calculus for Resource Management in Cloud Computing"

M.Sc. Seraj Fayyad at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Measurable Security for Systems built upon the Internet of Things"

M. Sc. Charalambos Kanella ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.:On the Identification of Small-Scaled Heating Events in MHD Simulations of the Solar Corona.

Lene Liebe Delsett  ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. Ichthyosaurs from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary at Spitsbergen. for ph.d.-graden.

M.Sc. Jakob Wåhlander vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Diels-Alder Reactions in Synthesis and Method Development: Development of a Synthetic Pathway to Decalin Terpenoids and Evaluation of Phosphordiamides as Diels-Alder Catalysts”

MSc Cassandra Trier at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The Genomics of Hybrid Speciation for the degree of PhD.

MSc Cassandra Trier ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: The Genomics of Hybrid Speciation.

M.Sc. Thanh Ngoc Nguyen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Design Principles for Health Information Infrastructures in Developing Countries"

Frank Guldstrand at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Quantitative Laboratory Modelling of Host Rock Deformation due to the Intrusion of Magma

Cand.Philol. Elisabeth Lien at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Textual Entailment Recognition And Logical-Form Meaning Representations

Tobias Schmiedel at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Dynamics of sub-volcanic systems in sedimentary basins and related mechanisms of host rock deformation

M.Phil. Waqas Rafique vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Synthesis of Fluorine-18 Labelled Radiotraces and Their Pre-Clinical and Clinical Characterization”

MSc Daniel Hitchcock at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Life history and pollutant accumulation in wildlife for the degree of PhD.

MSc Daniel Hitchcock ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Life history and pollutant accumulation in wildlife

M.Sc. Egil Øvrelid at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Strategic shifts in digital infrastructures:

Connecting discursive formations and lightweight IT"

Cand.scient. Joakim Karlsen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Reinventing Journalism: Supporting processes of invention and change in media worlds"

MSc Trung Tran at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Quantitative proteome analyses of phosphorylated proteins and alternative splice variants in human cell lines and urine for the degree of PhD.

MSc Trung Tran ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Quantitative proteome analyses of phosphorylated proteins and alternative splice variants in human cell lines and urine

MSc Duarte Mateus at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Novel observations of Rab7a as a key regulator of endosomal maturation and cellular homeostasis for the degree of PhD.

MSc Duarte Mateus ved Institutt for Biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Novel observations of Rab7a as a key regulator of endosomal maturation and cellular homeostasis

M.Sc. Chloé Beate Steen at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Dissecting tumor heterogeneity with application to lymphoma”

MSc Milad Hobbi Mobarhan at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Computational tools for modeling, data storage, and education in Neuroscience for the degree of PhD.

MSc Milad Hobbi Mobarhan ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Computational tools for modeling, data storage, and education in Neuroscience

M.Chem Ingvild Gudim at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Characterisation of flavodoxins and ferredoxin/flavodoxin reductases from Bacillus cereus and their interactions for the degree of PhD.

M.Chem Ingvild Gudim ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Characterisation of flavodoxins and ferredoxin/flavodoxin reductases from Bacillus cereus and their interactions

Master i farmasi Lars Peter Engeset Austdal ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: New models for nonclinical safety assessment: targeting hallmark neurodevelopmental processes to examine if pharmaceuticals affect the immature brain.

MSc Elisabeth Müller at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Activation of antitumor M1 macrophages for cancer immunotherapy for the degree of PhD.

MSc Elisabeth Müller ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Activation of antitumor M1 macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

M. Sc. Lluis Mas Ribas ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Extended Diffuse Emission as a Probe of Galaxy and Reionization Physics.

Honoré Dzekamelive Yenwongfai at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Quantitative seismic reservoir characterization - A Seismic Petrophysical Study in the Goliat Field, SW Barents Sea 

MSc Olja Toljagić at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Macroevolution with a bite: Teeth evolution and diversification in ruminants for the degree of PhD

MSc Olja Toljagić ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Macroevolution with a bite: Teeth evolution and diversification in ruminants

M.Sc. Cathrine Brecke Gundersen vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Environmental Fate of Nitramines Formed During Amine Based Post-Combustion CO₂ Capture”

MSc Antonio Agostini at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Molecular genetic characterization of ovarian tumors for the degree of PhD.

MSc Antonio Agostini ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Molecular genetic characterization of ovarian tumors

M.Sc. Man Zhang at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Uncertainty-wise Cyber-Physical Systems Testing"

Mohsen Kalani at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Multiscale seal characterization in the North Sea - implications from clay sedimentology, well logs interpretation and seismic analyses

Andreas Vogel at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Volcanic Ash: Properties, Atmospheric Effects, and Impacts on Aero-Engines

Master of Science Wei Zhan at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Band gap mapping of alloyed ZnO using probe-corrected and monochromated STEM-EELS"

for the degree of PhD

Viktoria Baranyi at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Vegetation dynamics during the Late Triassic (Carnian-Norian): Response to climate and environmental changes inferred from palynology

Heidrun Asgeirsdatter Ullerud  ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. Land cover mapping: methods and quality. for ph.d.-graden.

MSc Ingrid Kjos at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Identification and characterization of novel roles of Rab proteins in autophagy and cell migration for the degree of PhD.

MSc Ingrid Kjos ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Identification and characterization of novel roles of Rab proteins in autophagy and cell migration

M.Sc. Rune Børge Rosseland at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Exploring Movement-Based Rhythmic Interaction with Senior Citizens

M.Sc. Eirini Zacharaki vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

“Synthesis and Characterization of Colloidal Co, Co-Re and Ni Nanoparticles for Catalysis”

Vincent Manzanilla ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. Raising the bar - Molecular identification of plants. for ph.d.-graden.

MSc Ivan Myhre Winje at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Myonuclear identification and epigenetics in skeletal muscle for the degree of PhD .

MSc Ivan Myhre Winje ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Myonuclear identification and epigenetics in skeletal muscle

M.Sc. Xin Liu vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Defect, Stability and Transport in Oxyhydrides"

M.Sc. Helen Vikdal Thorbjørnsrud vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Escaping Mediocrity - Activity and Regulation of a Catalytically Inefficient Enzyme "

Christopher James D'Amboise at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Snowpack hydrology and how it pertains to snow avalanche forecasting

Cand.scient. Siri Fagernes at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Strategies for Distributing Resource Management Among Autonomous Agents

M.Sc. Hai Ngoc Pham at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Energy-Efficient Dynamic Spectrum Access for The Next Future Wireless Networks

MSc Karina Stensland Hornslien at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Role and Regulation of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in Arabidopsis for the degree of PhD.

MSc Karina Stensland Hornslien ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Role and Regulation of Parent-of-Origin Allelic Expression in Arabidopsis

M.Sc. Lucas Provensi at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Self-Adaptation and Self-Organization Supporting Live Media Streaming Applications

Bas Altena at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Observing change in glacier flow by using optical satellites

M.Sc. Ole Kristian Merkesvik Brandtzæg vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Online sample Preparation Platforms for Targeted Nano Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Bioanalysis "

Beyene Girma Haile at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Reservoir quality of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic sediments, NW Barents Shelf: understanding porosity evolution through diagenesis and sedimentology

MSc Ida E.J. Aasebø at the Department og Biosciences will be defending the thesis Behavioural state and neuronal activity: how the freely moving paradigm can uncover novel response characteristics for the degree of PhD

MSc Ida E.J. Aasebø ved Institutt for biovietskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Behavioural state and neuronal activity: how the freely moving paradigm can uncover novel response characteristics

MD. Roshan Hewapathirana at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"FOSS as a Platform Ecosystem: Understanding governance of open source HIS implementation in a Low and Middle Income Country context"

Master of Science Oliver Pabst at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Electrical properties of human skin: From linear recordings of exogenous electrodermal activity to non-linear memristor measurements"

for the degree of PhD

Irfan Baig at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Burial and thermal histories of sediments in the southwestern Barents Sea and North Sea areas: evidence from integrated compaction, thermal maturity and seismic stratigraphic analyses

Master of Science Heine Nygard Riise at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Materials and junctions for a novel oxide solar cell"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Glenn Bruce Sangolt Miller vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Intrinsic Reactivity of Reduced Mg and Zn with CO2 – Relationships to

Biological and Non-Biological C–C Bond Formation "

Jan Stanislas Pierre Edouard Cornet at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Analytical and numerical modeling of cavity closure in rock salt

M.Sc. Temesgen Debelo Desissa vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Stability and properties of materials and interfaces for oxide thermoelectrics"

M.Sc. Dimitra Chasanidou  at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

“User participation in innovation platforms: empirical studies and a tool to design for motivation”

M.Sc. Lars Kristian Roland at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

“Designing architectural patterns for distributed flexibility in health information systems”

Master of Science Laura Franconi at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Insertable B-Layer integration in the ATLAS experiment and development of future 3D silicon pixel sensors"

for the degree of PhD

Master of Science Ingerid Skjei Knudtsen at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Quantitative ¹⁸F‐FDG positron emission tomography in radiotherapy of lung cancer"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Leva Momtazi vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Design and Growth of Bioactive Materials by Molecular Layer Deposition"

M.Sc. Tore Vehus vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: 

"Nano Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Platforms for Determination of Low Abundant Wnt/Beta-Catenin Proteins in Cancer Research"

Cand. scient. Cecilie Kåsi Nesset at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Gene Trapping of GLMP Results in a Novel Mouse Model of Liver Fibrosis for the degree of PhD.

Cand. scient. Cecilie Kåsi Nesset ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Gene Trapping of GLMP Results in a Novel Mouse Model of Liver Fibrosis

Pierre Turquais at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Dictionary Learning and Sparse Representations for Denoising and Reconstruction of Marine Seismic Data

MSc Addisu Mekonnen Kassie at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: Integrating ecology, behaviour and population genetics for the degree of PhD.

MSc Addisu Mekonnen Kassie ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Effects of habitat fragmentation and degradation on Bale monkeys (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis) in southern Ethiopia: Integrating ecology, behaviour and population genetics

Mark Mulrooney at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Faults affecting the Triassic Barents Shelf: Syn-kinematic deposition, deformation mechanisms and driving forces

Master i farmasi Anthony Prandina ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Synthesis, Formulation and Biological Evaluations of Chemotherapeutics Targeting Antimicrobial Resistance.

Master of Science Marit Ulset Nordsveen at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

The dual-mode detector – development of a self-calibrating primary standard for optical power measurement

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Anders Ueland Waldeland at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Seismic image analysis for applications related to iterative 3D velocity model building

Master of Science Frank Leonel Bello Garrote at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“Studies of single-particle and collective properties of nuclei”

for the degree of PhD

Luc Girod at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Improved measurements of cryospheric processes using advanced photogrammetry

MSc Helle Tessand Baalsrud at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Adaptation to extremes: How ocean depth and freezing have shaped the evolution of codfishes and notothenioids – a genomic perspective for the degree of PhD

MSc Helle Tessand Baalsrud ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Adaptation to extremes: How ocean depth and freezing have shaped the evolution of codfishes and notothenioids – a genomic perspective 

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

MSc Mark Adam Scott at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Mitochondrial survival without oxygen for the degree of PhD.

MSc Mark Adam Scott ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Mitochondrial survival without oxygen

MSc Marita Borg Distefano at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Identification of novel roles of Rab proteins regulating transport between endosomes and Golgi for the degree of PhD.

MSc Marita Borg Distefano ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Identification of novel roles of Rab proteins regulating transport between endosomes and Golgi

Master i molekylærbiologi Julia Isabel Tandberg ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Characterization of Piscirickettsia salmonis membrane vesicles and their use as a vaccine for aquaculture.

MSc Raoul Wolf at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Dissolved Organic Matter and Ultraviolet Radiation in Freshwater Ecosystems: Interactive Effects on Zooplankton for the degree of PhD.

MSc Raoul Wolf ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Dissolved Organic Matter and Ultraviolet Radiation in Freshwater Ecosystems: Interactive Effects on Zooplankton

M. Sc. Dag Sverre Seljebotn ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Computational techniques for efficient Bayesian analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

Master of Science Per Filip Lindberg, at Department of Physics, will be defending the thesis 

“Zinc Oxide/Cuprous Oxide and the Interfaces With Silicon for Solar Cell Applications”

for the degree of PhD

MSc Robert Hanes at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Precision medicine for the treatment of a highly malignant and resistant type of liposarcoma for the degree of PhD

MSc Robert Hanes ved Institutt for biovitenskap vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden PhD: Precision medicine for the treatment of a highly malignant and resistant type of liposarcoma

Master of Science Hamed Panahi at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“Maturation processes and simulation of fracturing and flow of organic substances from immature shales and consequence on primary migration”

for the degree of PhD

Zagros Matapour at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Dynamic Traps in the Barents Sea – How oil from different geological periods came to be emplaced in commercial structures

Master of Science Simon Feigl at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“Novel Pixel-Detector Developments for Upgrades of the ATLAS Central Tracking System at the LHC”

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Henrik Nicolay Finsberg at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Patient-Specific Computational Modeling of Cardiac Mechanics

M.Sc. Yun Ai at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

"Channel Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Enabling Systems for Industrial Communications"

Maayke Jacqueline Koevoets ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. "The Palaeontology, Stratigraphy and Palaeo-environment of the Agardhfjellet Formation (Middle Jurassic-Lowermost Cretaceous) of Spitsbergen, Svalbard." for ph.d.-graden.

M.Sc. Kyrre Wahl Kongsgård at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

“Data Loss Prevention for Cross-Domain Information Exchange”

Tesfamariam Berhane Abay at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: Diversity of Petroleum in terms of Source Rock Properties and Secondary Alteration Processes - A study of source rocks, migrated petroleum, oils and condensates from the Norwegian Continental Shelf

Master i kjemi Cecilia Rossetti ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Molecularly Imprinted Polymers as new tool in proteomics:. the case study of SCLC diagnosis.

Christine Smith-Johnsen at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: The winter polar middle atmosphere and its response to natural external forcing

Anne Tiril Myhre Pedersen ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. "Hybridization and associated taxonomic implications in Carex sections Vesicariae and Phacocystis. for ph.d.-graden".

M.Sc.Feroz Zahid at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Network Optimization for High Performance Cloud Computing

Master i farmasi Cecilie Rosting ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Dried Blood Spots in Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometry-based Protein Analysis.

Ada Gjermundsen at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Thermally-driven heat transport in the atmosphere and ocean

M.Sc. Jaime Font Burdeus at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Location of Features as Model Fragments and their Co-Evolution

M.Sc. Evangelos Tasoulas at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Towards High Performance Dynamic Cloud Environments

Cand. Scient. Fred-Johan Pettersen at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Bioimpedance as a tool in Cardiac resyncronisation therapy"

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Øystein Bjørndal at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Single Bit Radar Systems for Digital Integration

Mikkel Holger Strander Sinding ved Naturhistorisk museum og  Statens Naturhistoriske Museum, Københavns universitet vil forsvare sin avhandling. "Never Cry Wolf-The origin and genomic history of the indigenous Greenland dogs and wolves." for ph.d.-graden.

Cand.Pharm. Ragnhild Birkeland Waade ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Pharmacological aspects related to the use of antidepressants in elderly patiens.

Master of Science Chengxin Zhao at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

“A radiation tolerance study of the ALICE TPC Readout Control Unit 2”

for the degree of PhD

Ancuţa-Cristina Raclariu ved Naturhistorisk museum vil forsvare sin avhandling. "Molecular authentication of complex herbal products for quality and safety." for ph.d.-graden.

Siv.Ing Karoline Gangestad Primdahl ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Stereoselective Synthesis of Oxygenated Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Mediators and Ivestigation of Biosynthetic Pathways.

Irene Brox Nilsen at the Department of Geosciences will be defending her dissertation: Detecting and attributing recent warming in Europe

Master of Science Jonas Gliß at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Passive UV remote sensing of volcanic sulphur and halogen emissions"

for the degree of PhD

Master of Science Riccard Andersson at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"A Machine Protection Risk Management Method for Complex Systems"

for the degree of PhD

Master i farmasi Cathrine Elisabeth Olsen ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden Dr. Philos: Mechanisms of Resistance to TPCS2a-Photodynamic Therapy: Implication for Photochemical Internalization

M.Sc. Margaret Machniak Sommervold  at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

In Illness and in Health”

A critical inquiry of the potential of digital health technology for supporting youth in health care transitions

Master i biologi Irene Beate Sørvik ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Protection of neurons - glutathione as a key mediator for survival with potential implication for use of estrogens as neuroprotectors.

M.Sc. Kim Mathiassen at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

A semi-autonomous robotic system for needle tracking and visual servoing using 2D medical ultrasound

M. Sc. Tone M. Ruud ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d.: Mapping the Polarized CMB with QUIET and SPIDER.

Master i farmasi Elvar Örn Viktorsson ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Drug Discovery, Design and Synthesis of Polycyclic Regulators of Cancer Cells and Nuclear Receptors: Phenazine 5,10-dioxides and Oxysterols

Magnus Kristoffersen at the Department of Geosciences will be defending his dissertation: U-Pb and Lu-Hf systematics of detrital zircon as a sedimentary provenance indicator

Master i farmasi Jenny Lund ved Farmasøytisk institutt vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden ph.d: Regulation of energy metabolism in cultured skeletal muscle cells: Effects of exercise, donor differences and perilipin 2. Studies in human and mouse myotubes.

Master of Science Tore André Bekkeng at Department of Physics will be defending the thesis 

"Development of a miniaturized multi-Needle Langmuir Probe system for in-situ measurements of electron density and spacecraft floating potential" 

for the degree of PhD

M.Sc. Andreas Kleppe at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Automatic detection of aberrant chromatin structure predicts prognosis in several cancer types

M.Sc.Thomas Gramstad Rolfsnes at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Improving History-Based Recommendation Systems for Software Evolution

M.Sc.Deepak Dwarakanath at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Robustness of Feature Based Calibration in New Age 3D Applications

M.Sc. Fazle Rabbi at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

MDE Techniques for Modelling and Analysis of Complex Software Systems

M.Sc. Lubna Siddique at the Department of Informatics will be defending her dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

Examination of the challenges in agile projects from the suppliers’ perspective in Norway´s software industry Insight and recommendations

M.Sc. Džiugas Baltrūnas at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Ph.D:

On Reliability in Mobile Broadband Networks