PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Martina Idzanovic, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Sea level, ocean currents, and vertical land motion along the Norwegian coast" on 22 November 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Dereje Haile Buko, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ” Sweet Potato Virus in Ethiopia - Detection, Characterization Elimination and Management” on 15 November 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ana Cruz, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Yeast (Cyberlindnera jadinii): an alternative protein source in pig and poultry feed" on 15 November 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Beatrice Clarence Misaka Langwa, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Sweet Potato Production in South Sudan: Current status, virus infections and whitefly vector diversity” on 14 November 2019.
On 13 November 2019, Emma Charlott Andersson Nordbø, Department of Public Health Science, Faculty for Landscape and Society will defend her thesis 'Health-promoting environments for children and adolescents: Built environment characteristics as resources for activity participation and well-being'
Torfinn Moldal, Institutt for Basalfag og Akvamedisin, Fakultet for Veterinærmedisin, vil forsvare sin doktorgradsavhandling "Innvirkning av planteoljer og soppgiften deoxynivalenol i fôret på atlantisk laks (Salmo salar) med vekt på tarmen" den 7. november.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Hege Hellberg, Department of Basic sciences and Aquatic medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis “Teleost gut morphology in sickness and in health, with emphasis on mast cell ontogeny and alimentary canal development in common wolffish, Anarhichas lupus Linnaeus, 1758” on the 25th of October.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Petter Stefansson, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Hyperspectral imaging: algorithmic advances in variable selection and applications to wood science" on 30 October 2019.
Kedir Woliy Jillo, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis "Rhizobia in climate-smart agriculture -N2 fixation effectiveness and N2O reduction capacity of phylogenetically diverse Bradyrhizobium and Ensifer strains" on 29 October 2019.
Bjørn Håkon Wormstrand, Department of Companion Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "The role of the blood supply to growth cartilage in physeal osteochondrosis and septic arthritis/osteomyelitis in foals and pigs" on 15th of October.
Ingrid Toftaker, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis “Epidemiologic studies of bovine respiratory syncytial virus and bovine coronavirus in Norway” on the 11th of October.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Siri Storteig Horn, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ” The genetics of omega-3 fatty acids in fillets of Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar L.) " on 4 October 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Stergiani Charisi, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Introducing microclimate into simulation models for buildings" on 27 September 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Arve Nilsen, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Production of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in closed confinement systems (CCS) - salmon lice, growth rates, mortality and fish welfare” on the 27th of September.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Rune Gundersen, Faculty of Science and Technology (REAKLTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Environmental Monitoring with Ground-based Interferometric Radar Systems" on 26 September 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Mette Synøve Nordby, Faculty of Science and Technology (REAKLTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Naturfag for yrkesfagelever" on 19 September 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gebreyohans Tesfaye Gebregiwergis, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Management of genomic inbreeding in breeding schemes " on 19 September 2019.
David Lapeña Gómez, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis "Production of yeast from spruce sugars and hydrolysates of protein-rich by-products as feed ingredient" on 13 September 2019.
Kevin Raj Kaushal, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis "Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions." on Thursday August 29 2019.
Khaled Itani, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Starch digestion dynamics in broiler chickens as affected by structural components, starch properties and level of inclusion" on 10 September 2019.
Stephanie Saussure, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Interactions between the cereal aphid pests Sitobion avenae and Rhopalosiphum padi and their fungal natural enemies” on 30 August 2019.
Greyson Zabron Nyamoga, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "Analyzing aspects of land-use sustainability in Tanzania: Current forest degradation, urban charcoal demand, and impacts of future firewood and charcoal consumption”, on August 23 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Saurabh Dubey, Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Nanoparticle based vaccine delivery of recombinant outer membrane proteins and characterization of Aeromonas hydrophila and Edwardsiella species in Asian Aquaculture” on the 23rd of August.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Melesse Eshetu Moges, Faculty of Science and Technology (REAKLTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Source-separation and On-site Wastewater Treatment: A Combined Treatment and Resource Recovery Facility towards a Circular Economy" on 22 August 2019.
Livingstone Senyonga, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis “Regulation of Electricity Distribution Utilities: Empirical and Theoretical Aspects of Incentive Regulation.” on Friday August 16th 2019.
Abrha Megos Meressa, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis “Mapping Farmers’ Preferences of Climate Change Adaptation Measures: Stated Preference and Field Experiments in Ethiopia” on Monday July 1 2019.
Gareth Benjamin Gillard, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis Evolution of gene expression following the whole genome duplication in salmonid fish on 21 June 2019.
Muuz Hadush Gebremichael, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis “The Economic Implication of Animal Feed Scarcity on Farm Intensification, Food Production and Consumption: Empirical Evidence from Tigrai, Ethiopia” on Friday June 14 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Adis Softic, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Reproductive problems in cattle in Bosnia and Herzegovina” on 18th of June.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Thomas Nelson Harvey, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis "Towards a genome wide understanding of salmon lipid metabolism gene regulation across tissues and life stages" on 7 June 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence José Luis Munera-Echeverri, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis ”Effects of conservation farming and biochar on carbon and nitrogen cycling in light textured soils in the sub-humid tropics” on Friday 7 June, 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Eliezer Brown Mwakalapa, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and heavy metals in fish from Tanzania – levels and associated health risks to humans and fish” on 4th of June 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ursula Brandes, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Ecological effects of Cytisus scoparius invasion – a native or alien species?" on 31 May 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Susann Burow, Department of Basic Science and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis “Medaka (Oryzias latipes) gonadotropins: Production and developmental profiles, pharmacological characterization of their receptors, and establishment of a novel transgenic line tg(fshb:DsRed2)” on the 24th of May.
Oda Kjørlaug Svennevik, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis Dewatering of digested biomass on 24 May 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Dorothée Kolberg, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend her PhD thesis "Timeliness in seedbed preparation for spring cereals: Studies to prepare for climate change in Norway" on Wednesday 22 May 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Giulia Malachin, Department of Basic Science and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis “Exploring physiological functions of the prion protein in a new animal model” on the 16th of May.
Roger Holten, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”The effect of freezing and thawing on water flow and pesticide leaching in partially frozen soil - Soil column experiments and model development" on 14 May 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Hanne Dvergedal, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ” Novel indicator traits for individual feed efficiency in Atlantic salmon (Salmo Salar)" on 10 May 2019.
Ivar Oveland, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Laser-based survey of building objects and buildings" on 7 May 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Magnus Vikan Røsæg, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Pancreas disease; effects on growth, feed conversion, digestion and interactions with Piscine orthoreovirus” on 30th of April.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Arsim Ademi, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis “Selenium and other minerals in farm animals, feed, fodder crops and soils in Kosovo, and the bioavailability of selenium to animals from crop biofortification” on Friday 26 April 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Samuel Posian Wamala, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Bacterial pathogens of farmed African catfish (Clarius gariepinus) and Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Uganda” on 25th of April.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Simon Stenberg, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Epigenetic and genetic adaptation in experimental yeast populations" on 12 April 2019.
Leikny Gammelmo, Department of Property and Law, Faculty for Landscape and Society will defend her thesis "Sound procedures of handling applications for changing real property. An investigation and evaluation of the practices of public administration in Norwegian municipalities in 2015" on 12 April 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Hilde Lyby Wærp, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Rearing of Norwegian Red replacement heifers; Short- and long-term effects of dietary energy and protein levels on growth characteristics and adipose tissue gene expression" on 5 April 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Amin Sayyari, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Deoxynivalenol in pigs: Effects, toxicokinetics, vertical transmission and microbial detoxification” on 21st of March.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Karina Kolodina, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Comparative analysis of heterogeneous and homogeneous neural field models", on 22 March 2019
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Elia Ciani, Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis “Neuroendocrine regulation of pituitary gonadotropins during puberty in Atlantic salmon parr with focus on melatonin and Gnrh systems” on 8th of March.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Quoc Cuong Ngyen, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: "Better understanding of the relation of the dynamic sensory perception of solid and semi solid foods with consumers’ preferences and their perception of satiety", on 5 March 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Rafal Piotr Chudy, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Modelling forest sector impacts of increased use of wood-based bioenergy in Europe and US South”, on 1 March 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Elibariki Reuben Mwakapeje, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Use of a One Health Approach for Understanding the Epidemiology and Management of Anthrax Outbreaks in the Human-Livestock-Wildlife and Environmental Health Interface Areas of Northern Tanzania" on 22 February 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kassaye Balkew Workagegn, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Establishment of a base population for long-term genetic improvement of Nile tilapia in Ethiopia" on 19 February 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ellen Marie Rosvold, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ” The importance of nest building in sows and of farmer`s management around farrowing for maternal behaviour and piglet survival" on 15 February 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Olav Aaseth Hegnar, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: "Applied and fundamental perspectives on brown-rot fungal decay mechanisms", on 12 February 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Veslemøy Oma, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis “Bovine coronavirus in calves – experimental studies on virus shedding, transmission and whole genome sequencing” on 8th of February.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Haftamu Gebretsadik Gebrehiwot, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Integrated Weed Management in Teff: Case of Tigray, Ethiopia" on 31 January 2019.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Lin Ma, NMBU School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Four Essays on the Characteristics of the Oil Market ", on 11 January 2019.
Cesilie Granum Bjørklund, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) on the steroidogenesis of primary neonatal porcine Leydig cells" on 11 January.
