PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Gebresilassie Asnake Ewunie, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Analyze the biofuel production potential of Jatropha curcas L: factors affecting the biodiesel and biogas production potential of Jatropha curcas’s oil and residues" on 15 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Habitamu Taddese Berie, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Methods for estimation of major forest attributes based on remotely sensed data for the support of REDD+ measurement, reporting and verification (MRV)" on 10 March 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Jikun Chen, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Supplying dairy cows with Propionibacterium to reduce enteric methane emission" on 23 February 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kim Erik Grashei, Faculty of Biosciences (BIOVIT) will defend his PhD thesis ”Genomic methods in breeding programs: Parental assignment, triploid genomics and case-parental control modelling" on 12 February 2021.
PhD degree – Public Defence Lena Oksdøl Foseid, Faculty of Chemistry, Biotechnology and Food Science (KBM) will defend her PhD thesis “Lipids in Norwegian seaweed – An investigation of the fatty acids and glyceroglycolipids in selected seaweed”, on Friday February 5, 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Vignesh Raja Ponnambalam, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK) will defend his PhD thesis "Row Following Based Navigation Systems for Agricultural Robots" on 26 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristine von Krogh, Department of Preclinical Sciences and Pathology, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “An Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) pituitary model system for reproductive and reprotoxic testing in vitro” on 22 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Sarah Ephrida Tione, School of Economics and Business (HH), will defend her PhD thesis "Land markets and agricultural household decisions nexus in Malawi" on 20 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Kristin Sæbø Pettersen, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “The effect of food chain stressors on Listeria monocytogenes” on 18 January 2021.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence Siv Meling, Department of Production Animal Clinical Sciences, Faculty for Veterinary Medicine, will defend her PhD thesis, “The presence of an acute phase response in experimental classical scrapie in lambs indicates a shift towards a pro-inflammatory status in the clinical terminal stages” on 15 January 2021.