PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence. Miriam Aledda, Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), will defend her PhD thesis "Data analysis approaches for translating infrared spectroscopy from laboratory settings to on-site applications: sparse data modeling and wavelength channel selection" on 2 June 2026.
Norwegian title of thesis: "Dataanalysemetoder for å muliggjøre overføring av infrarød spektroskopi fra laboratoriemiljøer til praktiske anvendelser i felt: modellering av begrensede datasett og seleksjon av bølgelengdekanaler"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture:
"From laboratory innovation to field deployment: Challenges in translating analytical technologies into real-world use"
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence:
2 June 2026
10:15 Trial lecture: https://nmbu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d41d8c0a-ef44-41be-806d-b45600c442ae
12:15 Public defence: https://nmbu.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0b47b9cb-c88e-44a7-b52a-b45600c4ac85
Place: Festsalen (U215), Urbygningen, NMBU
Evaluation committee:
First opponent: Professor Dolores Pérez Marín, University of Cordoba, Spain
Second opponent: Professor Thomas Bocklitz, Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena, Germany
Committee coordinator: Associate Professor Nazli Pelin Kocatürk Schumacher, REALTEK, NMBU
Main supervisor:
Professor Achim Kohler, REALTEK, NMBU
Co-supervisors:
Professor Volha Shapaval, REALTEK, NMBU
Researcher Boris Zimmermann, REALTEK, NMBU
PhD Valeria Tafintseva, Norsk mycellium
Professor Boris Mizaikoff, Ulm University, Germany
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. If you would like access to it, please send an email to phd-realtek@nmbu.no