10 April - Marta Barros Reguera (KBM)

English title of thesis:
Investigation of unspecific peroxygenases towards their application as biocatalysts

Norwegian title of the thesis:
Studier av uspesifikke peroksygenaser med tanke på deres anvendelse som biokatalysatorer

Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
Nature’s strategies for C–H bond activation: The diversity of enzymatic mechanisms and examples relevant to green chemistry

Time and place for the trial lecture:
Tuesday, April 7th, at 10:00
BT1A,05 Biblioteket, Bioteknologibygningen, KBM

Evaluation committee - trial lecture:
Professor Åsa Frostegård, KBM, NMBU
Associate Professor Marius Aursnes, KBM, NMBU
Researcher Anikó Várnai, KBM, NMBU (Administrator)

Time and place for the public defence:
Friday April 10th 2026, at 12.15.
The defence will be held at NMBU in U215 Festsalen, Urbygningen, NMBU.

Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Marco Fraaije, University of Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering Biotechnology, Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, Groningen, The Netherlands

Second opponent: Professor Willem van Berkel, Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen,
The Netherlands

Committee coordinator: Researcher Anikó Várnai, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Supervisors:
Main supervisor:
Professor Morten Sørlie, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås

Co-supervisor:
Professor Vincent G.H. Eijsink, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås

The doctoral thesis is available for public review.
For those of you who wants access to this please send an email to:
phd-kbm@nmbu.no

Thesis number 2026:30; ISSN 1894-6402; ISBN 978-82-575-2348-0