PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Runar Helin, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Exploring the transition from traditional data analysis to machine- and deep learning approaches" on 16 June 2023
PhD degree – Public Defence Erik Rasmussen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis “DNA methylation in a nutritional and social context: A study of cytosine modifications in honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers”,on Friday 16 June 2023.
PhD degree: Trial lecture and public defence. Yidneckachew Ayele Zikargie, Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society, will defend his thesis "Modernist Sugar Industry Development in Pastoral Frontiers: Redefining Land and Livelihood Rights in the Omo Valley, Ethiopia" 15 June 2023
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense May Linn Buberg, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Extended spectrum cephalosporinresistant E. coli from poultry; Virulence-associated traits and their zoonotic potential" on 13 June 2023.
PhD degree – Public Defence Stine Alm Hersleth, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Local food entrepreneurs in Norway: Case studies on successful practices for network learning and market development”, on Friday 9 June 2023.
Mike Riess, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis "Essays on predictive and prescriptive process monitoring" on Friday 9 June 2023.
Wuddasie Dereje Bekele, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend her PhD thesis "Financial inclusion: trends, determinants, and contributions" on Wednesday 7 June 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence Lina Ahlén, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences (Prodmed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis "Digital dermatitis in Norwegian dairy herds - risk factors, dissemination, and diagnostics" on 6 June 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kim Kathrine Linderud Bellamy, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology (Prepat), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis "Genetic studies of health challenges and behaviour in the Havanese dog breed" on 5 June 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Magnus Göransson, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis : ”Alleles of adaptive importance for barley cultivation in a subarctic climate” on 26 May 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Tomasz Mroz, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis “Grain yield in Norwegian spring wheat: past, present, and future. Historical genetic gains, their genetic basis, and prospects of future improvement using phenomics " on 24 May 2023.
Irene Namugenyi, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend her PhD thesis "Market development for a sustainable transition to bioenergy in Uganda" on Friday 26 May 2023.
Micah Lucy Abigaba, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend her PhD thesis "Four essays on oil price uncertainty, optimal investment strategies and cost transmission of an oil price shock" on Tuesday 23 May 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Alye Tefera Haile, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Genetic Diversity, Selection Signatures and Nutritional Composition of Enset (Ensete ventricosum) from Ethiopia " on 16 May 2023.
PhD degree: Trial lecture and public defence. Erika Rojas, Noragric, Faculty of Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis "There is No Safe Place" Narratives of Everyday Gendered In/Security at the Margins in El Salvador" on 16 May, 2023.
Julie Brun Bjørkheim, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend her PhD thesis "Beyond Lost Revenue: The Economic Consequences of Tax Non-Compliance" on Friday 5 May 2023.
PhD degree – Public Defence Martine Andrea Olsen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Cheese-making efficiency affected by protein source in concentrate feed for dairy cows and their αS1-κ-casein genotypes”, on 3 May 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Elise Lunde Gjelsvik, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "New understanding of gas hydrate phenomena and natural inhibitors in crude oil systems through mass spectrometry and machine learning" on 2 May 2023
Vinay Nannuru, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis “Using genome-wide associations, predictions, and selection to improve fusarium head blight disease resistance in wheat" on 28 April 2023.
Merkeb Woldu Bezabeh, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, will defend her PhD thesis “Strategies for increasing sustainability of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and faba bean (Vicia faba L.) production – Effect of composts, rotation and biofertilizers”, Wednesday 26 April 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Anna Selina Jenul, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Data- and Expert-driven Feature Selection for Predictive Models in Healthcare. Towards Increased Interpretability in Underdetermined Machine Learning Problems" on 21 April 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Tiril Aurora Lintvedt, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), will defend her PhD thesis "Raman spectroscopy for in-line food quality characterization" on 11 May 2023
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristina Stenløkk, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Genomic structural variations as drivers of adaptation in salmonid fishes" on 21 April 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Niveditha Katyayini, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Molecular dissection of the role of plant hormones in perennial shoot branching " on 14 April 2023.
Alexander Severinsen, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis "Increased sustainability in the food retail sector through Measurement and Verification of energy conservation measures." on Thursday 13 April 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Weiwen Zhou, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Intestinal functions and health of Ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) and lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) - Effects of variation in diet composition" on 31 March 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence Karin Westereng Handegård, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology (PrePat), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis "Noise reactivity and fear of fireworks in dogs: a study of genetic and phenotypic variables" on 28 March 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Brian Bramanto, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Investigations of hydrological contributions to terrestrial gravity measurements" on 24 March 2023
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Agnieszka Kinga Kuras, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Airborne hyperspectral imaging for multisensor data fusion" on 17 March 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Demmelash Mengistu, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Microplastics in stormwater runoff: Measuring tire wear particles (TWP) concentration in the road environment and effect of treatment systems" on 8 March 2023
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Aurora Rosvoll Grøndahl, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Assessment of machine learning methods for automatic tumor segmentation" on 3 March 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Lene Idland, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Norwegian raw cow’s milk, a potential source of zoonotic pathogens?" on 24 February 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Rasmus André Tranås, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Identifying Materials with Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity Using Machine Learning and Computational Modeling" on 17 February 2023
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ricarda Kellermann, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Managing the shift to anoxia: Regulatory phenomena in denitrifying bacteria, sources and sinks of N2O”,on 16th February 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Evalyn Wanjiru Mwihia, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Prevalence, levels, risk factors and knowledge, attitudes and practices associated with mycotoxins in fish feeds and their effect in fish in Kenya" on 10 February 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense David Weman Persson, Department of Production Animal Sciences (ProdMed), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Monitoring fish health – a vital part of salmon farming management" on 27 January 2023.
PhD degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense Marit Smistad, Department of Paraclinical Sciences (ParaFag), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Piecing together the chain of infection for Streptococcus dysgalactiae in sheep and dairy cows- risk factors, sources, and genomic diversity of bacterial strains" on 20 January 2023.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ioannis Theodorou, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis “Cell fate and blade patterning during the early growth of Saccharina latissima sporophytes" on 10 January 2023.
Endre Kildal Iversen, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis "Valuing Ecosystem Services to Inform Land Use Policies in Norway - Methodological Issues and Applications of Stated Preference methods" on Friday 13 January, 2023.