Doctors BIOVIT
Greetings from the dean
Dear doctoral candidates!
We congratulate you on completing a successful PhD study and defence at the Faculty of Biosciences, NMBU.
You will find my salutation in the video below.
Best wishes,
Kari Kolstad
About this page
NMBU honour those conferred upon with a PhD degree between autumn 2019 and summer 2021. This web page is open to the public. You, and those you wish to share it with, can enter the experience at any time for the coming year from 17 September 2021 at 14:00 Central European Time (CET).
The web page includes similar elements found in a ceremony with physical presence, such as speeches, music, information about each NMBU doctor and a password-protected proforma diploma for display purposes.
The NMBU video salutation to the doctors:
List of the doctors:
Public defences 2021:
Public defences 2020:
Public defences 2019:
Muhammad Azher Bhatti
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Muhammad Azher Bhatti. Your thesis ”Alternative systems for Norwegian sheep production: extending fresh meat season and meeting niche market demands” was defended on 20.11.2020.
Dajana Blagojevic
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Dajana Blagojevic. Your thesis ”Sensitivity of plants exposed to gamma radiation. A physical and molecular study.” was defended on 12.12.2019.
Dereje Haile Buko
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Dereje Haile Buko. Your thesis ”Sweet Potato Virus in Ethiopia - Detection, Characterization Elimination and Management” was defended on 15.11.2019.
Jikun Chen
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Jikun Chen. Your thesis ”Supplying dairy cows with Propionibacterium to reduce enteric methane emission” was defended on 23.02.2021.
Gebreyohans Tesfaye Gebregiwergis
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Gebreyohans Tesfaye Gebregiwergis. Your thesis ”Management of genomic inbreeding in breeding schemes” was defended on 19.09.2019.
Haile Welearegay Gebreslase
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Haile Welearegay Gebreslase. Your thesis ”Breeding for Milk Production in Sheep in Ethiopia” was defended on 07.05.2021.
Ana Rita Girio Da Costa Cruz
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Ana Rita Girio Da Costa Cruz. Your thesis ”Yeast (Cyberlindnera jadinii): an alternative protein source in pig and poultry feed” was defended on 15.11.2019.
Kim Erik Grashei
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Kim Erik Grashei. Your thesis ”Genomic methods in breeding programs: Parental assignment, triploid genomics and case-parental control modelling” was defended on 12.02.2021.
Siri Storteig Horn
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Siri Storteig Horn. Your thesis ”The genetics of omega-3 fatty acids in fillets of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.)” was defended on 04.10.2019.
Khaled Itani
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Khaled Itani. Your thesis ”Starch digestion dynamics in broiler chickens as affected by structural components, starch properties and level of inclusion” was defended on 10.09.2019.
Maja Winther Iversen
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Maja Winther Iversen. Your thesis ”Genomic selection of purebred pigs for the commercial performance of crossbred sows” was defended on 16.12.2019.
Ghulam Qasim Khan
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Ghulam Qasim Khan. Your thesis ”Improved starch and protein utilization by extruded feed pellets targeted to benefit dynamics of rumen digestion in dairy cows” was defended on 28.05.2021.
Selamawit Araya Kidane
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Selamawit Araya Kidane. Your thesis ”Plant-parasitic nematodes of the Ethiopian food security crop enset (Ensete ventricosum) - occurrence, distribution, characterisation and management” was defended on 24.03.2021.
Graceline Tina Kirubakaran
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Graceline Tina Kirubakaran. Your thesis ”Genomics exploring population structure and sex determination in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)” was defended on 13.12.2019.
Ólafur Hjörtur Kristjánsson
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Ólafur Hjörtur Kristjánsson. Your thesis ”Quantitative genetics of growth rate and carcass quality traits in Atlantic salmon” was defended on 06.05.2021.
Siril Kristoffersen
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Siril Kristoffersen. Your thesis ”Improving the utilisation of phytate-bound phosphorus in feed for poultry and pigs through increased efficacy of exogenous phytase in the anterior digestive tract” was defended on 18.12.2020.
Beatrice Clarence Misaka Langwa
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Beatrice Clarence Misaka Langwa. Your thesis ”Sweet Potato Production in South Sudan: Current status, virus infections and whitefly vector diversity” was defended on 14.11.2019.
Min Lin
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Min Lin. Your thesis ”Genetic studies of the wheat – Parastagonospora nodorum pathosystem” was defended on 25.09.2020.
Khoi Dinh Pham
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Khoi Dinh Pham. Your thesis ”Breeding for disease resistance against Edwardsiella ictaluri in Mekong striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus)” was defended on 17.12.2020.
Stine Samsonstuen
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Stine Samsonstuen. Your thesis ”Whole-farm modelling of greenhouse gas emissions from suckler cow beef production” was defended on 06.12.2019.
Stéphanie Saussure
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Stéphanie Saussure. Your thesis ”Interactions between the cereal aphid pests Sitobion avenae and Rhopalosiphum padi and their fungal natural enemies” was defended on 30.08.2019.
Karoline Bakke Wethal
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Karoline Bakke Wethal. Your thesis ”New approaches for management and breeding of dairy cows, in automatic milking systems” was defended on 01.04.2020.
Marit Smith Wetlesen
Congratulations on the conferment upon the PhD Degree at NMBU, Marit Smith Wetlesen. Your thesis ”Optimisation of suckler cow efficiency, carcass performance, and economy in extensive and intensive beef cattle production” was defended on 27.11.2020.