Karen Ane Frøyland Skjennum (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis "Immobilization of PFAS contaminated soil by waste-based sorbents" Friday 26 June 2026.
English title of thesis
“Immobilization of PFAS contaminated soil by waste-based sorbents”
Norwegian title of thesis
"Immobilisering av PFAS-forurenset jord ved bruk av avfallsbaserte sorbenter"
Prescribed subject of trial lecture
“Strategies for advanced wastewater effluent treatment for the removal or organic micropollutants”
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 26 June 2026, at 12.15 at U224, Clock building
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Dr. Gabriel Sigmund (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
Second opponent: Dr. Ian John Allan (Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), Norway)
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Susanne Eich-Greatorex (MINA, NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Erlend Grenager Sørmo (MINA, NMBU)
Co-supervisors: Professor Jan Mulder (MINA, NMBU), Professor Gijsbert D. Breedveld (University of Oslo, Norway) and Dr. Thomas Hartnik (Lindum, Norway)
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.