Junhui Hu (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis "The Forest-Based Climate Mitigation in the Nordic Region: Economic Trade-Offs, Biomass Competition, and Carbon Leakage Risk" Friday 24 October, 2025.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis
"The Forest-Based Climate Mitigation in the Nordic Region: Economic Trade-Offs, Biomass Competition, and Carbon Leakage Risk"
Norwegian title of thesis
"Tiltak i Nordiske skoger for å motvirke klimaendringer: Økonomiske avveininger, konkurranse om biomasse og risiko for karbonlekkasje"
Prescribed subject of trial lecture
"Socio-economic and biodiversity impacts of different climate change mitigation strategies in the forest sector"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 24 October 2025 at 12:15, Festsalen, Clock building
The disputation can be attended by using the following link in Zoom:
https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/66835068800
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Professor Karl Robert Lundmark (Luelå University of Technology, Sweden).
Second opponent: Professor Hanne Katrine Sjølie (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway).
Committee coordinator: Professor Anders Q. Nyrud (MINA/NMBU).
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Per Kr. Rørstad (MINA/NMBU).
Co-supervisors: Dr. Torjus Folsland Bolkesjø (Statkraft, Norway), Professor Erik Trømborg (MINA/NMBU) and Associate Professor Eirik Ogner Jåstad (MINA/NMBU)
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.
NB! This offer is before the defense only. After, the thesis will be available via NMBU's library.