Getachew Birhanu Abera (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend his PhD thesis “Biological conversion of CO2 to CH4: impact of process inhibitors and biofilm-based mitigations approaches” Thursday 16 April 2026.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis:
“Biological conversion of CO2 to CH4: impact of process inhibitors and biofilm-based mitigations approaches”
Norwegian title of thesis
"Biologisk konvertering av CO2 til CH4: påvirkning av prosesshemmere og biofilmbaserte avbøtende tilnærminger"
Prescribed subject of trial lecture
"Biogenic carbon dioxide sources and their feasibility for carbon capture and utilization"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Thursday 16 April 2026, at 12.15 at SPK151, Centre for Plant Research in Controlled Climate (SKP)
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Professor Marika Kokko (Tampere University, Finland)
Second opponent: Dr. Marcell Nikolausz (Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany)
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Thomas Martinsen (MINA, NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Dr. Lu Feng (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway)
Co-supervisors: Dr. Linn Solli (Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), Norway) and Professor Erik Trømborg (MINA, NMBU)
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.