PhD degree – Public Defence

THE DEFENCE HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO NO INTERNET IN ETHIOPIA. UPDATED INFORMATION WILL COME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
On June 30 2020, Yonas Berhanu, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society will defend his PhD thesis, "Effects of climate-smart agriculture on agricultural production, GHG emissions and livelihoods in agro-pastoral and mixed farming systems in southern Ethiopia".

Aina Lundon Russenes, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend her PhD thesis “Nitrous oxide emission and turnover in arable cropping in South East Norway” on June 25, 2020.

On 24 June 2020, Anise Gold-Watts (Department of Public Health Science, Faculty of Landscape and Society) will defend her PhD thesis: Translating SHINE: Application of communty-based water, sanitation, and hygiene intervention.

PhD degree – Public Defence
Anja Ruud Winther, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Cell-shape regulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae: EloR/KhpA, a new regulatory pathway administering cell elongation" on 23 June 2020.

On 12 June 2020, Anders Eika (Department of Property and Law, Faculty of Landscape and Society) will defend his PhD thesis: "Cooperation and competition in urban redevelopment", on 12 June 2020. 

Mari Steinert, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend her PhD thesis "The conservation value of power-line clearings for native insect-pollinated plants and wild bees in boreal forest landscapes", on June 12, 2020.

Thomas Mørtvedt Solvin, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "Quantification of genetic and epigenetic variation in phenology and growth in Norway spruce", on 9 June 2020.

PhD degree – Public Defense

Katrine Mørk Paulsen, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “Tick-borne encephalitis virus – a One Health approach” on 28 May 2020, 

Lennart Noordermeer, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "Large-area forest productivity estimation using bitemporal data from airborne laser scanning and digital aerial photogrammetry", on May 27, 2020.

PhD degree – Public Defense

Elena Kirsanova, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “Genetics of chronic subclinical mastitis in Norwegian Red cows” on 26 May 2020.

PhD degree – Public Defense

Halldor Felde Berg, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend his PhD thesis, “Reproductive potential and quality of SpermVital semen used for artificial insemination in cattle” on 19 May 2020.

PhD degree - Trial lecture and Public Defence

Anne Kristine Grostøl Hansen, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “Choline is an essential nutrient for post-smolt Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L)” on 14 May 2020.

Pablo Durán Flores, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis "A novel framework for coupling mesoscale and steady-state CFD models for wind resource assessment", on 12, May 2020. 

PhD degree – Public Defence
On May 4 2020, Meseret Tsige Abebe, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty for Landscape and Society will defend her PhD thesis, "Gendered agricultural development through climate-smart agriculture: Analysis of its effects on Ethiopian women smallholders".

PhD degree – Public Defence
Misti Finton, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis "Characterization of heteropathogenic and multidrug resistant (MDR) bacterial isolates from clinical and environmental sources using combined nanopore and next-generation sequencing technologies" on 23 April 2020.

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Karoline Bakke Wethal, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis: ”Genetic analyses of new milkability, temperament, and udder health traits for Norwegian Red cows based on data from automatic milking systems" on 1 April 2020.

PhD degree – Public Defence
Francesco Delogu, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis "Back to basics: simplifying microbial communities to decrypt complex interactions" on 03 April 2020.

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Eivind Seim, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Chaos Enhanced Light Trapping in Optically Thin Solar Cells" on 13 March 2020.

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Hasan Asy’ari Arief, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Information Extraction from Large Point Cloud Data: A Deep Learning Approach" on 12 March 2020.

PhD Degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Gunnar Dalen, Department of Production and Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Using online cell counts for detection and prediction of subclinical intramammary infections in dairy cows"on 6 March.

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence

Kine Josefine Aurland-Bredesen, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Optimal economic management of catastrophic risk" on 27 February 2020.

PhD Degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Erik Paulshus, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Antibiotic resistance in wastewater" on 27 February.

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence

Viktorija Viciunaite, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Moving towards sustainability: business models and entrepreneurship in the Norwegian wool industry" on 26 February 2020.

PhD Degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Håkon Kaspersen, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis "Quinolone resistant Escherichia coli from Norwegian livestock – A comparative genomics study" on 25 February.

PhD Degree - Trial Lecture and Public Defense

Lena Hammerlund Teige, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "Detection of antibodies in Atlantic salmon using a bead-based multiplexed immunoassay" on 24th of February.

Erica Maremonti, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis “Investigating sensitivity and tolerance to chronic gamma irradiation in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans” on 14 February, 2020. 

Nathan Harris Phinney, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA) will defend his PhD thesis “Lichen ecohydrology: from water uptake and storage to climate-driven growth rates and distribution patterns”, on 7 February 2020. 

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
Elena Maria Santidrián Yebra-Pimentel, Department of Basic Sciences and Aquatic Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend her PhD thesis "New genomics and transcriptomics tools toward improving conservation strategies for sturgeons" on the 31st of January.

PhD degree - Trial lecture and Public Defense

Håvard Nørstebø, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, will defend his PhD thesis
"The applicability of milking-time testing in automatic milking systems"
on 24 January 2020.

Knut Fossgard, Fakultet for miljøvitenskap og naturforvaltning (MINA), vil forsvare sin ph.d.-avhandling "Å legge til rette for naturbaserte reiselivsopplevelser: en studie av forholdet mellom tilbydere, ressurser og produkter", den 17. januar 2020

PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence

Kidanemariam Abreha Gebretsadik, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis "Demand Side Implications for Irrigation Management and Policies" on 8 January 2020.