PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Vilde Vraalstad, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) and SINTEF Digital, will defend her PhD thesis "From fundamentals to performance: robust near-infrared spectroscopic systems for real-world applications" on 30 October 2026.
Norwegian title of thesis: "Fra forståelse til ytelse: robuste målesystemer basert på nærinfrarød spektroskopi for praktiske anvendelser"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"Surface, interface, and boundary layer optics in diffuse reflectance and interactance spectroscopy of biological media"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
30 October 2026
10:15 Trial lecture
12:15 Public defence
Place: Gullvepsen, Bikuben, NMBU
It is possible to follow the defence by Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/3270796049369024?p=rlfDmVepvebgIjOohB
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Aoife Gowen, University College Dublin, Irland
Second opponent: Professor Ben Aernouts, KU Leuven campus Geel, Belgium
Committee coordinator: Professor Kristian Liland, REALTEK, NMBU
Main supervisor: Professor Achim Kohler, REALTEK, NMBU
Co-supervisors: PhD Marion O'Farrell, SINTEF Digital
PhD Jens Petter Wold, Nofima
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. If you would like access to it, please send an email to phd-realtek@nmbu.no