PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Mekdes Ourge Wegasie, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis "An ecological and socio-economical study of a locally endangered tree species, Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, in a dry Afromontane forest", on 20 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Hannah Lee Harrison, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis "Cultivating conflict: Perspectives on the human dimensions of voluntary Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) hatcheries in a conservation context", on 19 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Ida Synnøve Aarum, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis: "Structural characterization of lignin and some side-products from steam-exploded woody biomass", on 17 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Dawit Gebregziabher Mekonen, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Socioeconomics and governance of exclosures in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia”, on 18 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Maryam Teimouri, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Extracting Movement Patterns from Geographical Trajectory Data" on 14 December 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Mengesteab Hailu Ubuy, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Data, models, and insights for informed decision-making in the management of exclosures in Tigray, northern Ethiopia”, on December 14, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Leszek Michalak, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: "Exploring acetylated galactoglucomannan as a source of prebiotics", on December 13 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Runi Weihe, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ” Dynamic dietary salmon farming in the Faroe Islands with regards to production, quality and economic improvements" on 13 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jens-Erik Dessen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ” Growth, feed utilization, health and biometric parameters in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) - Influence of dietary protein-to-lipid ratio and body fat status" on 12 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jan Vidar Grindheim, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Modeling, prediction and control of towed marine seismic streamers" on 11 December 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Terence Odoch, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine will defend his PhD thesis «Non-typhoidal salmonella in layer hen farms in Uganda; Occurrence, biodiversity and antimicrobial resistance” on 10 th of December.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense David Ato Quansah, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Performance Degradation Studies on Field-Aged Solar Photovoltaic Modules”, on December 7, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Rajesh Joshi, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ” Non-additive genetic effects in Nile tilapia" on 6 December 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Gro Kveldrup Moen, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis "Human-mediated effects on brown bear behavior and potential cascading effects", on November 30 2018.
PhD degree - Trial lecture and public defence Lillin Knudtzon, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend her thesis "Kan vi snakke om medvirkning? Sivilsamfunnets innflytelse og bidrag i reguleringsprosesser" on 30 November 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Perrine Marguerite Fernandez, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend her PhD thesis "Geophysical monitoring of redox influenced degradation near the water table", on November 29 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Simeon Rossmann, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT), will defend his PhD thesis ”Potato soft rot Pectobacteriaceae in Norway – seed potato health, association with insects and molecular mechanisms of disease development" on 23 November 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Torbjørn Mehl, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Hyperspectral Photoluminescence Imaging of Silicon Wafers and Solar Cells" on 23 November 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Vinh Duy Cao, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Geopolymer Concrete Incorporated with Microencapsulated Phase change materials for Energy Efficient Buildings" on 20 November 2018
Fitwi Wolday, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend his thesis "Land use and travel behaviour in small towns" on 20 November 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Daan Mes, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), will defend his PhD thesis "Effects of hatchery environment on neurobiology and behaviour in Atlantic salmon: implications for stocking" on 16 November, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Luz Gabriela Muñoz Sanhueza , Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Abscission in poinsettia, a methodology and –omics approach " on 16 November
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Elisabeth Iversen, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend her PhD thesis "Gjennomføring av uteundervisning i naturfag ved bruk av et didaktisk undervisningsdesign" on 16 November 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defense Ivan Dragicevic, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Environmental impact of fertilization with biogas digestates – Studies of inorganic and organic contaminants”, on November 13, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Fride Berg Standerholen, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), will defend her PhD thesis "Flow cytometric assessment of sperm functionality in relation to bull semen preservation methods and fertility" on 2 November, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jon Kristian Sommerseth, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Rearing of Norwegian Red replacement heifers; effect of growth rates on lifetime production and profitability" on 2 November 2018.
Helen Elisabeth Elvestad, Department of Property and Law, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend her thesis "Strøksservitutter i fortetningsprosjekter. Utfordringer og endringsforslag" on 26 October 2018
Lazarus Pierentino Lugoi, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA), will defend his PhD thesis “Modeling the potential for improved productivity in a rain-fed East-African agricultural system under climate change scenarios”, on October 24, 2018.
Lars Grimstad, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), will defend his PhD thesis "Modular, Mobile Robots for Applications in the Agricultural Domain" on 19 October 2018
Kostas (Konstantinos) Mouratidis, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Landscape and Society will defend his thesis " Compact city or sprawl? The role of urban form in subjective well-being" on 19 October 2018
Arturs Putnins, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA),will defend his PhD thesis “Late Weichselian glacial dynamics and retreat patterns of the fennoscandian ice sheet in Gausdal Vestfjell, south-central Norway, acquired from spatial data”, on October 12, 2018.
Erik Francis Acanakwo, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA),will defend his PhD thesis “How termites and large mammalian her-bivores influence tree communities, seed removal and wood de-composition in an African savanna”, on October 10, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Trust Kasambala Donga, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis "Sugarcane Production in Malawi: Pests, Pesticides and Potential for Biological Control" on 4 October 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ekaterina Christensen, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), will defend her PhD thesis "Use of zirconium and chitosan coagulants for physicochemical and hygienic water treatment" on 28 September, 2017.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Tove Sundgren, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ” Phenotypic and genetic studies of waterlogging tolerance in wheat and barley" on 19 September 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ane Odden, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET), will defend her PhD thesis "Coccidiosis in lambs: Treatment and control" on 18 September, 2017.
Kine Svensson, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis: "Improving food waste anaerobic digestion: effects of digestate recirculation, post-treatment and methane-methane serial digestion", on August 24 2018.
Xiaodong Wang, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU, will defend his PhD thesis: “Optimisation of Wastewater Treatment Systems with Data Mining and Process Modelling”, on 20 August 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristin Marie Valand Herstad, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Intestinal microbiota, red meat, and colorectal tumours in dogs" on 12 July 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Stine Grønmo Kischel, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Space allowance and feeding systems for ewes – Behavior, feed wastage and individual variation" on 5 July 2018.
Sandeep Sharma, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend his PhD thesis: "Production of microbial protein from brown seaweed and spruce wood and its use as a novel feed ingredient in aquaculture", on June 29 2018.
Thomas Heiberg, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU, will defend his PhD thesis: “Multiscale modeling of the early visual pathway”, on 28 June 2018
Djordje Grujcic, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management,will defend his PhD thesis "Agronomic Biofortification of Silage Maize with Zinc and Iron and their Availability, Chemical speciation and Digestibility in Dairy Cattle”, on 6 June 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Nina Hårdnes Tremoen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis ”Identification of sperm parameters and gene variants influencing boar fertility " on 5 June 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Tim Martin Knutsen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Genomics of bovine milk fat composition" on 25 May 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Regin Arge, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ” Tetradecylthioacetic acid (TTA) – A functional feed ingredient for Atlantic salmon affecting early sexual maturation, cardiac robustness and β-oxidative capacity " on 4 May 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Nicolai Hermann Jørgensen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Sheep breeds in contrasting environments - pasture utilization at different spatiotemporal scales" on 27 April 2018.
Amare Teklay Hailu, NMBU School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend is PhD thesis: ”Incentivized forest conservation: spatial econometric and experimental evidence".
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Astrid Wolf, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Immunization against infectious salmon anemia - Implementation of a salmonid alphavirus-based replicon vaccine and immune response studies" on 26 April 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ulrika Ridbäck, School of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Landscape and Society, will defend her thesis 'On the Complexity of Dealing with Introduced Plants as Cultural Heritage: A historical multidisciplinary study of plants introduced to Norway from 1750 to 1900, exemplified with Abies alba Mill. (European silver fir) as a case species'.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Federico Cammelli, NMBU School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend his PhD thesis ”Persistent miscoordination: an economics of Amazon fires"" on 21 March 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ognjen Zurovec, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Faculty of Landscape and Society, will defend his thesis "Agriculture, livelihoods and climate change in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Impacts, vulnerability and adaptation" on 16 March 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Rimatulhana Binti Ramly, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis "Auxiliary proteins of infectious salmon anemia virus" on 15 March 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gergely Kosa, Faculty of Science and Technology (REAKLTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "High-throughput screening of filamentous fungi for single cell oil production by microplate cultivation and FTIR spectroscopy" on 9 March 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Chisoni Mumba, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "Socioeconomic, cultural, and ecological drivers of food safety and animal health hazards on the beef value chain in Zambia" on 8 March 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence, Petter Vejle Andersen, Faculty of Science and Technology, NMBU will defend his PhD thesis: "Rapid Spectroscopic Methods for Predicting Water-holding Capacity in Meat", on 1 March 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence, Mohammed Ouassou, Faculty of Science and Technology, NMBU will defend his PhD thesis: “Implementation of GNSS Data Integrity for Precise Real-time Positioning”, on 2 March 2018
Md. Akhtarul Alam, School of Economics and Business (HH) will defend his PhD thesis “Aquaculture in Bangladesh: Essays on production variability, consumer preferences and market integration” on Wednesday February 21.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Leonardo Martín Martín, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "Transcriptome profiling during zebrafish embryogenesis: miRNA dynamics and gamma radiation effect" on 20 February 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Luke Nyakarahuka, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "Epidemiology of Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers: Seroprevalence and Risk Factor Modelling of Ebola and Marburg viruses in Uganda" on 15 February 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Selma Hurem, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis “Two-generational study of biological effects from gamma radiation exposure during sensitive life stages in the zebrafish (Danio rerio)”on 13 February 2018.
Nataliia Sivchenko Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU will defend her PhD thesis: “Image analysis in coagulation process control", on 9 February 2018
Kristi Marie Jegstad, Faculty of Science and Technology (RealTek), NMBU will defend her PhD thesis: “Science education for our common future: Education for sustainable development in chemistry education and science teacher education", on 8 February 2018
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Ida Bergva Aas, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis “Gene transcription studies on the interbranchial lymphoid tissue of Atlantic salmon-with emphasis on its role in the immune system” on 6 February 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Wilbert Bunini Manyilizu, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend his PhD thesis "Occupational exposure to pesticides and human health risk in Tanzania" on 2 February 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Susanne Windju, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend her PhD thesis “Detection and validation of disease resistance QTL in wheat" on 30 January 2018.
Walid Fayez Mustapha, Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management,will defend his PhD thesis “Forest-based biofuels in the Nordic countries: Potentials and interactions with the forest industries and the energy sector”, on January 26, 2018.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kjersti Selstad Utaaker, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (VET) will defend her PhD thesis “Intestinal protozoan parasites in Northern India – investigations on transmission routes” on 12 January 2018.
