PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence. Prutha Nagaraja, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), will defend her PhD thesis "Experimental Investigation and Constitutive Modelling of Plastic Additive Pelletization" on 13 November 2026.
Norwegian title of thesis: "Eksperimentell undersøkelse og konstitutiv modellering av pelletering av plasttilsetningsstoffer."
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture: "Understanding and Solving Heat Transfer Problems"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence: 13 November 2026
10:15 Trial lecture
12:15 Public defence
Place: Festsalen (U215), Urbygningen, NMBU, Ås
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Senior lecturer PhD Sameer Rahatekar, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
Second opponent: Professor Vishal R. Sardeshpande, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Antonio Candea Leite, REALTEK, NMBU
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Shailendra Singh, REALTEK, NMBU
Co-supervisors: PhD Laurent Cavin, BASF, Switzerland
Professor Odd Ivar Lekang, REALTEK, NMBU
Associate Professor Kristian Berland, REALTEK, NMBU
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. If you would like access to it, please send an email to phd-realtek@nmbu.no