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Natural History Museum, UiO

Victoria Sjøholt Engelschiøn, UiO

  • Start date of PhD: 25.07.2018
  • Field of expertise: Geochemistry, Sedimentology, Palaeontology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: To place the faunal assemblage of the Middle Triassic of Svalbard and correlating this to sedimentological and geochemical data
  • Main supervisor: Øyvind Hammer, Natural history museum of Oslo
  • Co-supervisors: Atle Mørk, NTNU and Jørn Hurum, Natural history museum of Oslo

Emil Gulbransen, UiO

  • Start date of PhD: 01.08.2021
  • Field of expertise: Minerology, Alkaline, Nordite
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The project will be part of ongoing research into the formation and evolution of pegmatites in the alkaline Larvik Plutonic Complex (LPC), Norway. The overall objectives of this research are to understand the emplacement and alteration processes occurring in alkaline pegmatites.
  • Main supervisor: Henrik Friis, Natural history museum of Oslo
  • Co-supervisors: Tom Andersen, UiO

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Julie Linnea Gresseth - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 06.01.2020
  • Field of expertise: Seismic interpretation, structural geology, basin formation
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Suprabasins, rift margin formation of the Mid-Norwegian margin
  • Main supervisor: Per Terje Osmundsen, NTNU

Linda Haaland - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 15.02.2020
  • Field of expertise: Stuctural geology and tectonics 
  • Main supervisor: Per Terje Osmundsen, NTNU

Even Nikolaisen - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 15.08.2017
  • Field of expertise: Petrology,mineralogy and microstructures
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Multiscale 3D analysis of silica hosted magnetic inclusions
  • Main supervisor: Richard Harrison, University of Cambridge, UK
  • Co-supervisor: Suzanne A. McEnroe, NTNU

Alf Andre Orvik - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 01.08.2019
  • Field of expertise: Petrology, Magmatic plumbing systems, Machine learning
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Ore potential in magmatic systems
  • Main supervisor: Bjørn Eske Sørensen, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Rune Berg-Edland Larsen, NTNU

Eric Ryan - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 10.08.2018
  • Field of expertise: Structural Geology, Drones, Field Work
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Onshore-Offshore Correlation of Large Hydrothermal Ore-Forming Fracture-Systems
  • Main supervisor: Bjørn Eske Sørensen, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Rune Berg-Edland Larsen, NTNU, Christine Fichler, NTNU and Giulio Viola, University of Bologna

Alexandra Jarna - Department of Geography

  • Start date of PhD: 16.03.2020
  • Field of expertise: bedrock, landslide, DL
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Machine learning techniques in geoscience
  • Main supervisor: Jan Ketil Rød, NTUNU
  • Co-supervisor: Ola Fredin, NTNU

Andriani Mandataki - Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

  • Start date of PhD: 01.11.2021
  • Field of expertise:  materials, interaction with geological formations, well plugging and abandonment
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Properties of Bi alloys as barrier material in well completion and well plugging
  • Main supervisor: Sigbjorn Sangesland, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Bob Eden, Manager in Rawwater, UK

Erin Lindsay - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • Start date of PhD: 20.08.2017
  • Field of expertise: engineering geology; remote sensing; landslides
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Automated landslide detection - Landslide Early Warning Systems
  • Main supervisor: Steinar Nordal, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Graziella Devoli, NVE, James Strout, NGI

Kim Rainer Mattson - Department of Energy and Process Engineering 

  • Start date of PhD: 01.11.2021
  • Field of expertise: Recycling, Emissions, Python
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Regional Hybrid-Life cycle Assessment of Waste management systems
  • Main supervisor: Johan Berg Pettersen, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Daniel Beat Müller, NTNU

Lan Zhang - Department of Energy and Process Engineering 

  • Start date of PhD: 03.11.2020
  • Field of expertise: remote sensing, climate change, image processing
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Spatio-temporal vegetation change and its drivers in Norway
  • Main supervisor: Francesco Cherubini, NTNU
  • Co-supervisor: Gunnar Austrheim, NTNU, Xiangping Hu, NTNU

The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

Marina Galindos Alfarache - Department of Geology

  • Start date of PhD: 03.06.2019
  • Field of expertise: Microstructural geology, metamorphism, tectonics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Tectonic evolution of the Lyngen, Nakkedal, and Tromsø Nappe Complexes (Uppermost Allochthonous, Troms area, Northern Caledonides)
  • Main supervisor: Holger Stunitz, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Jiri Konopasek, UiT

Przemyslaw Domel - CAGE

  • Start date of PhD: 07.05.2020
  • Field of expertise: Microseismicity, Stress mechanisms, Seepage
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Regional stress regime of western-Svalbard margin and its relation with near surface fluid flow: a study using ocean bottom seismometers
  • Main supervisor: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Stefan Buenz, UiT and Vera Schlindwein, Alfred Wegener Institute

Eren Saliha - Department of Physics and Technology

  • Start date of PhD: 01.02.2018
  • Field of expertise: Heliosphere, dust, planet
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Interplanetary dust
  • Main supervisor: Ingrid Mann, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Åshild Fredriksen, UiT

Harald Hansen - Department of Geology

  • Start date of PhD: 01.02.2018
  • Field of expertise: Petrology, ore geology, tectonics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The tectonic setting, geochemistry and ore geology of the precambrim basement in northern Norway
  • Main supervisor: Steffen Bergh, UiT

Stephan Höpfl - Department of Geology

  • Start date of PhD: 03.06.2018
  • Field of expertise: Tectonics, Metamorphism, Petrology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Reconstruction of the tectonic history of the Lyngen, Nakkedal and Tromsø Nappes of the Scandinavian Caledonides based on kinematics, age correlations and pressure-temperature-deformation-time (p-t-d-t) evolution
  • Main supervisor: Jiri Konopasek, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Holger Stunitz, UiT

Cornelia Mentzoni Binde - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.12.2020
  • Field of expertise: Petroleum geology, Geophysics, Fluid flow
  • Main supervisor: Stefan Bünz, CAGE, UiT

Maximilian Weber - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 15.04.2020
  • Field of expertise: Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Seismic Stratigraphy, Regional Geology of Svalbard
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Cenozoic evolution of the Svalbard continental margin incorporating seismic and field data. Characterization of depositional history of different basins off the western and northern coast of Svalbard.
  • Main supervisor: Jan Sverre Laberg, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Amando Lasabuda, UiT

Julian Janocha - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 15.09.2020
  • Field of expertise: Sedimentology, Structural Geology, Ground Penetrating Radar
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Effects of tectonic and climatic forcing on rift basinsequences – the Upper Paleozoic of Bjørnøya
    and southern Spitsbergen revisited
  • Main supervisor: Sten-Andreas Grundvåg, UiT

Frances Ann Cooke - CAGE

  • Start date of PhD: 23.04.2019
  • Field of expertise: Seismic processing and interpretation
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Investigating the effect of stress on the control of gas seepage - east Fram Strait
  • Main supervisor: Andreia Plaza-Faverola, UiT CAGE
  • Co-supervisor: Stefan Bunz, UiT CAGE

Maria Telmon - Department of Geosciences  

  • Start date of PhD: 01.11.2022
  • Field of expertise: Petrology, Geochemistry, Geodynamics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The role of the Iceland plume on rift initiation in the North Atlantic mid-oceanic ridge
  • Main supervisor: Sebastian Tappe, UiT

Henrik Henriksen Stokke   

  • Start date of PhD: 08.04.2021
  • Field of expertise: Geophysical surveying, Seismic interpretation, Development of sub-surface imaging solutions
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Geophysical imaging and interpretation
  • Main supervisor: Stefan Bünz, UiT
  • Co-supervisor: Sverre Planke, UiO/VBPR, Benjamin Bellwald, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Malin Waage, Vestlandsforskning

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)

Peter Betlem

  • Start date of PhD: 11.03.2019
  • Field of expertise: CCS - rock/geophysics - hydrates
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Multi-physical detection of along-fault CO2 migration through cap rock shales
  • Main supervisor: Kim Senger, UNIS

Malte Michel Jochmann

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2015
  • Field of expertise: CCS - Sedimentology, Coal geology, Regional Geology 
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The regional geometry and sedimentology of the lower Paleogene basin in Svalbard and North East Greenland
  • Main supervisor: Maria Jensen, UNIS

Rafael Horota

  • Start date of PhD: 01.04.2021
  • Field of expertise:  Drone data acquisition in Svalbard, Arctic fieldwork, Teaching and Learning
  • Preliminary thesis topic: How digital can geosciences field-based learning be? Perceptions over digital technologies in Norway's geoscience higher education
  • Main supervisor: Christian Haug Eide, UiB
  • Co-supervisor: Marius Ole Jonassen, UNIS, Kim Senger, UNIS, Marie van der Kloet, UiB

University of Bergen

Anders Bjerga - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.03.2017
  • Field of expertise: Geochemistry, petrology, fluid-rock interactions 
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Oceanic core complexes in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea
  • Main supervisor: Rolf Birger Pedersen, UiB

Vilde Dimmen - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.11.2017
  • Field of expertise: Structural geology, fluid flow, seismic forward modelling, field work
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Geological and geophysical properties of fault zones in carbonate rocks: from outcrop analogues to seismic imaging (SW Barents Sea and analogues)
  • Main supervisor: Atle Rotevatn, UiB

Natacha Fabregas - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 03.07.2018
  • Field of expertise: Geology, Sedimentology, Rifting
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Tectono-sedimentary evolution of the southern margin of the Rift of Corinth
  • Main supervisor: Robert Gawthorpe, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Mary Ford, Université de Lorraine, Richard Collier, University of Leeds and Martin Muravchik, UiB

Åse Hestnes - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2019
  • Field of expertise: Thermochronology, structural geology, lineament analysis
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Topographic evolution and source-to-sink relationships in Western Norway: a multi-method approach
  • Main supervisor: Joachim Jacobs, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Deta Gasser, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, HVL

Martin Kjenes - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 20.01.2019
  • Field of expertise: Microstructures, intrusions, fieldwork
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Controls on the development of mafic intrusions in sedimentary basins
  • Main supervisor: Christian Haug Eide, UiB
  • Co-supervisor: Atle Rotevatn, UiB

Jhon Meyer Munoz Barrera - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2016
  • Field of expertise: Seismic interpretation, Structural geology, Sequence stratigraphy
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Syn-rift evolution on and around the Frøya high during the late Jurassic
  • Main supervisors: Rob Gawthorpe, UiB and Atle Rotevatn, UiB
  • Co-supervisor: Gijs Henstra, UiB

Philipp Müller - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.10.2019
  • Field of expertise: Reflection seismic interpretation, subsurface fluid migration, sedimentology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Top seal analysis
  • Main supervisor: Christian Hermanrud, UiB

Samuel Pereira - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 15.08.2020
  • Field of expertise: Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology, Thermodynamic modelling 
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The high temperature fate of the hydrothermal deep biosphere- An experimental and field approach
  • Main supervisor: Eoghan P. Reeves, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Ida Helene Steen, UiB, Håkon Dahle, UiB and Florence Schubotz, University of Bremen

Apolline Maria Samin - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2020
  • Field of expertise: Hydrothermal isotope geochemistry
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Investigating Cu isotope fractionation as a tracer for seafloor mineral deposit formation using hydrothermal experiments
  • Main supervisor: Desiree Roerdink, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Eoghan P. Reeves, UiB, John Jamieson, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Wolfgang Bach, University of Bremen

Håvard Stubseid - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 18.01.2018
  • Field of expertise: Geochemistry, petrology and geochronology 
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Morphology and geochemistry of axial volcanic ridges in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea 
  • Main supervisor: Cedric Hamelin, UiB

Thomas Thuesen - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 14.08.2017
  • Field of expertise: Sedimentology, Source- to-sink, Facies analysis
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Holocene sediment production and sediment volume partitioning in a western Norwegian fjord-valley source-to-sink system
  • Main supervisor: William Helland-Hansen, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Christian Haug Eide, UiB

Hannah Babel - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.12.2020
  • Field of expertise: Geomicrobiology, microbial metabolisms, basalt alterations
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Microbial life and fluid-rock interactions in oceanic crust
  • Main supervisor: Steffen Leth Jørgensen, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Andreas Türke, UiB, and Ingunn Hindenes Thorseth, UiB

Ingvild Aarrestad- Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 19.10.2020
  • Field of expertise: Experimental, geochemistry, feedback
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Feedback mechanisms in mineral replacement reactions
  • Main supervisor: Andreas Beinlich, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Desiree Roerdink, UiB, and Oliver Plümper, UiB

Chanakan Boonnawa - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2021
  • Field of expertise: Seafloor hydrothermal fluids,Abiogenic production of organic carbons, Fluid geochemistry
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Investigating abiotic productions of organic carbon solely from inorganic substrates under seafloor hydrothermal environments
  • Main supervisor: Eoghan P. Reeves, UiB

Daniel Gunning - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2021
  • Field of expertise: Geology, Glaciology, Geography
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Glacial cycles of the Pleistocene
  • Main supervisor: Kerim Nisancioglu, UiB

Saskia Tschache -  Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2020
  • Field of expertise: seismic forward modelling and inversion
    amplitude variation with offset (AVO)
    machine learning
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Avoiding pitfalls in AVO, inversion and velocity model building by full-wavefield elastic modelling and analysis
  • Main supervisor: Einar Iversen, UiB

Simon Lefèvere - Department of Earth Sciences

  • Start date of PhD: 31.01.2022
  • Field of expertise: paleoceanography, paleoclimates, stable isotope geochemistry, sedimentology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: My thesis topic will be on the paleoceanographic reconstruction of the North Atlantic ocean circulation and freshwater/hydrological cycle interactions using sedimentological evidence from deep sea sediment cores (in particular, foraminiferal stable isotope geochemical proxie).
  • Main supervisor: Ulysses Silas Ninnemann, UiB
  • Co-supervisors: Anna Nele Meckler, UiB and Harald Sodemann, UiB

Daniel Thomas - Department of Earth Sciences 

  • Start date of PhD: 01.03.2022
  • Field of expertise: Remote sensing, glaciology, geographic information systems (GIS)
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Multi-decadal assessment of debris-covered glaciers and rock glacier evolution over large spatial scales
  • Main supervisor: Benjamin Aubrey Robson, UiB

James Olomo - Department of Earth Sciences 

  • Start date of PhD: 15.01.2021
  • Field of expertise: Geoscience, Rift Tectonics, Basin Analysis
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Tectono-sedimentary evolution of deep-water syn-rift systems on the western flank of the Utsira High – South Viking Graben, Northern North Sea
  • Main supervisor: Rob Gawthorpe, UiB
  • Co-supervisor: Atle Rotevatn, UiB, Tim Cullen, UiB, Christopher Jackson, Imperial College London

Renee Hageman - Department of Earth Science, Centre for Deep Sea Research 

  • Start date of PhD: 04.07.2022
  • Field of expertise: deep-sea sediments, microbial communities, biogeochemistry
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Physiological state of microbes and microbial community dynamics in the deep sedimentary biosphere
  • Main supervisor: Steffen Leth Jørgensen, UiB
  • Co-supervisor: Bjarte Hannisdal, UiB

University of Oslo

Eirik Gottschalk Ballo - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2018
  • Field of expertise: Volcanism, geochemistry, lake sediments
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Volcanic Eruptions and their Impacts on Climate, Environment, and Viking Society in 500–1250 CE (VIKINGS)
  • Main supervisor: Henrik Svensen, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Manon Bajard, UiO

Lea Belosa - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 04.11.2019
  • Field of expertise: Geophysics and Marine Geology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: NE Atlantic fracture zones
  • Main supervisor: Carmen Gaina, UiO

Romain Corseri - UiO and Volcanic Basin Petroleum Research AS

  • Start date of PhD: 01.05.2019
  • Field of expertise: Geophysics, Applied electromagnetics, Seismic interpretation
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Electrical Conductivity Structure of the Crust on the Norwegian Continental Shelf from Magnetotelluric Data
  • Main supervisor: Jan Inge Faleide, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Sverre Planke, UiO and Kim Senger, UNIS

Sigurd Eide - Department of Technology Systems

  • Start date of PhD: 01.08.2018
  • Field of expertise: Geophysics, Physics, Geology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Geophysical Mars exploration by ground penetrating radar - RIMFAX
  • Main supervisor: Svein-Erik Hamran, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Henning Dypvik, UiO

Annie Jerkins - NORSAR/UiO

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2020
  • Field of expertise: Regional earthquake seismology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Improved understanding of seismicity in the North Sea 
  • Main supervisor: Volker Oye, NORSAR/UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Valerie Maupin, UiO, Lars Ottemöller, UiB and Felix Halpaap, UiB

Stephen Michalchuk - NJORD

  • Start date of PhD: 13.11.2020
  • Field of expertise: Microstructural Analysis, Structural Geology, Metamorphic Petrography
  • Preliminary thesis topic: A microstructural analysis of the mechanisms and significance of transient brittle deformation in the ductile crust
  • Main supervisor: Luca Menegon, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Francois Renard, UiO

Vidar Skogvoll - NJORD

  • Start date of PhD: 01.08.2019
  • Field of expertise: Statistical physics, Computational modelling, Phase-field crystal
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Multiple scales modelling of crystal plasticity
  • Main supervisor: Luiza Angheluta-Bauer, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Francois Renard, UiO and Luca Menegon, UiO

Maaike Weerdesteijn - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 27.05.2019
  • Field of expertise: Glacial isostatic adjustment, Numerical modeling, Magnetotellurics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) modeling for Greenland: using magnetotelluric measurements to constrain mantle viscosity and incorporate this in a 3D numerical Earth model which needs to be extended for the application of GIA
  • Main supervisor: Clinton P. Conrad, UiO

Camilla Louise Würtzen - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.10.2018
  • Field of expertise: Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Basin fill dynamics 
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Tectonostratigraphy and basin fill dynamics in alluvial systems
  • Main supervisor: Ivar Midtkandal, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Jan Inge Faleide, UiO, and Ingrid Margareta Anell, UiO

Andreas Grøvan Aspaas - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 04.01.2021
  • Field of expertise: Friction, fracturing, failure kinematics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Creep bursts in landslides - characterization and numerical simulation of transient deformations
  • Main supervisor: Francois Renard, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Bernd Etzelmüller, UiO, and Jessica McBeck, NJORD

Jack Whattam - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 04.01.2021
  • Field of expertise: volcanology, petrology, mapping
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Understanding the explosive stage of the Oslo rift: the volcanic eruptions and sedimentary processes associated with caldera formation
  • Main supervisor: Henrik Svenson, UiO
  • Co-supervisors: Ivar Midtkandal , UiO, and Dougal Jerram, UiO

Yijung Wang - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 07.09.2021
  • Field of expertise: numerical modelling, subduction, geophysics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Numerical modelling of anisotropic viscosity in mantle dynamics
  • Main supervisor: Agnes Kiraly, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Clinton Conrad, UiO

Aurora Machado Garcia  - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 12.10.2020
  • Field of expertise: Seismic interpretation, Basin analysis, Sequence stratigraphy
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Source-to-sink parameters of the last glaciation (Weichselian) at the North Sea Fan
  • Main supervisor: Ivar Midtkandal, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Ingrid Anell, UiO 

Paiman Shfabakhsh - NJORD

  • Start date of PhD: 01.03.2021
  • Field of expertise: Fluid mechanics, Mass transport, Fractured porous media
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Convective mixing flow in fractured and porous rocks
  • Main supervisor: Francois Renard, NJORD, UiO

Gaurav Madan - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 17.08.2020
  • Field of expertise: Oceanography, Climate Modelling
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Evaluating Weakening of Meridional Overturning Circulation
  • Main supervisor: Hans Kristian Eriksen, UiO

Juan Camilo Meza - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 07.02.2022
  • Field of expertise: Tectonics; Seismic Interpretation; Modeling
  • Preliminary thesis topic: DYPOLE: Dynamics of Polar Confined Basins / The Eurasia Basin from breakup in greenhouse to present in icehouse conditions
  • Main supervisor: Jan Inge Faleide, UiO

Owen Huff - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 20.12.2021
  • Field of expertise: Geophysics, Geology, Machine Learning
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Machine learning for geophysical imaging, seismic facies identification, and seismic processing.
  • Main supervisor: Jan Inge Faleide, UiO

Artem Basyrov - Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 

  • Start date of PhD: 17.11.2020
  • Field of expertise: cosmology
  • Preliminary thesis topic: The galactic foreground of the cosmic microwave background
  • Main supervisor: Hans Kristian Eriksen, UiO

Lars Frogner - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2018
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Accelerated particles in the atmosphere of the Sun
  • Main supervisor: Boris Vilhelm Gudiksen, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Mats Carlsson, UiO

Michael Haar - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2021
  • Field of expertise: HPC, numerical modeling, simulations
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Modeling the internals of solar flares
  • Main supervisor: Boris Gudiksen, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Åke Nordlund, University of Copenhagen

Jonas Lunde - Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2022
  • Field of expertise: Cosmology, HPC, Bayesian inference
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Exascale computing in cosmology
  • Main supervisor: Hans Kristian Eriksen, UiO

Mats Ola Sand - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics

  • Start date of PhD: 16.08.2021
  • Field of expertise: Sun: chromosphere; Sun: photosphere; Sun: magnetic reconnection
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Quiet Sun Ellerman bombs (QSEBs), and jets on both bigger and smaller scales (surges and spicules).
  • Main supervisor: Luc Rouppe van der Voort, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Tiago Pereira, UiO

Mats Ippach - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 01.09.2022
  • Field of expertise: Biogeochemistry, Permafrost, C-cycle
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Soil carbon storage and dynamics in boreal systems
  • Main supervisor: Helge Hellevang, UiO

Ana Anzulović - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 25.08.2022
  • Field of expertise: molecular dynamics geochemistry
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Modelling impact of melts on mantle diffusion and viscosity with geodynamic implications
  • Main supervisor: Razvan Caracas, UiO

Davor Dundovic - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 13.01.2022
  • Field of expertise: Modelling, scientific computing, machine learning
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Machine learning to aid and improve computational geoscience (machine learning in mesh adaptivity and multigrid for geophysical applications)
  • Main supervisor: Regine Hock, UiO

Titus M. Casademont - Department of Technology Systems

  • Main supervisor: Svein-Erik Hamran, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: David A. Paige, UCLA, Henning Dypvik, UiO

Deniz Ölçek - Centre for Space Sensors and Systems

  • Field of expertise: astronomical instrumentation, space-based remote sensing and radiation detectors and planetary exploration
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Rover-borne neutron gamma-ray detectors for planetary exploration
  • Main supervisor: Anja Kohfeldt, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Svein-Erik Hamran, UiO

George Cherry - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics

  • Start date of PhD: 07.09.2022
  • Field of expertise: Solar atmosphere, simulations, fluid dynamics
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Whole Sun simulations using exa-scale modelling
  • Main supervisor: Boris Gudiksen, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Mats Carlsson, UiO

Yi Xue - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 25.10.2022
  • Field of expertise: Palaeomagnetism, drilling machine, oriented samples
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Palaeointensity study in the early Ediacaran from Egersund dikes, North Norway
  • Main supervisor: Mathew Michael Domeier, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Leandro Cesar Gallo, UiO

Elena Mamonova - CEED

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2023
  • Field of expertise: Exoplanet demography and mass-radius relations, statistical methods
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Exoplanets, Venus, Earth – The coupled atmosphere-interior models, that can be verified in near future by observational spectroscopic data
  • Main supervisor: Stephanie Werner, UiO

Abhisek Basa - Department of Geosciences

  • Start date of PhD: 29.09.2021
  • Field of expertise: Geomechanics, structural geology, seismic interpretation
  • Preliminary thesis topic: Fault structural evolution and growth mechanisms: Insights from multi-scale structural studies
  • Main supervisor: Anita Torabi, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Behzad Alaei, UiO

Rakul Maria Johannesen - NJORD

  • Start date of PhD: 01.01.2022
  • Field of expertise: Volcanic regions, Fracture mapping, Multiscale dataintegration
  • Preliminary thesis topic: CO2 storage in basaltic rocks
  • Main supervisor: Olivier Galland, UiO
  • Co-supervisor: Sverre Planke, UiO/ VBER, Hans Jørgen Kjøll, UiO, Jana Ólvasdóttir, Faroese Geological Survey, Óluva Eidesgaard, Faroese Geological Survey

DEEP Supervisors

Natural History Museum, UiO

Associate Professor Henrik H. Friis

  • Fields of expertise: Mineralogy, crystallography, alkaline complexes, spectroscopy

Professor Axel Müller

  • Fields of expertise: Petrology and mineralogy of igneous and hydrothermal rocks

Professor Reidar G. Trønnes

  • Research interests: Experimental mineralogy, petrology and geochemistry, Earth and planetary structure, evolution and dynamics

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Professor II Christine Fichler

  • Fields of expertise: Gravity and magnetic modelling and interpretation of sedimentary, crustal and mantle structures and associated geological processes

Professor Rune B. Larsen

  • Fields of expertise: Igneous Petrology Ore-deposit geology

Professor Suzanne McEnroe

  • Fields of expertise: My research is focused on understanding the fundamental magnetic properties of rocks and minerals, and how the atomic-scale properties affect magnetic anomalies on local, regional and satellite scales. 

Professor Philip Ringrose

  • Fields of expertise: Reservoir geology, CO2 storage

Associate Professor Bjørn Eske Sørensen

  • Fields of expertise: Mineralogy, Metamorphic petrology, Microtectonics. Structural Geology, Field Geology, EBSD, Crystallography, Thermodynamic modelling, Geochemistry and Igneous petrology

The Arctic University of Norway (UiT)

Associate Professor Stefan Bünz - Department of Geology

  • Fields of expertise: Fluid flow systems, gas hydrates, petroleum systems, margins

Associate Professor Mélanie Forien - Department of Geology

  • Field of expertise: Experimental igneous petrology

Professor Jiri Konopasek - Department of Geology

  • Fields of expertise: Metamorphic petrology, tectonics

Associate Professor Sabina Strmic Palinkas - Department of Geology

  • Fields of expertise: Geochemistry, ore deposits, fluid and melt inclusion studies, environmental geochemistry

Professor Holger Stunitz - Department of Geology

  • Fields of expertise: Rock deformation, microstructures, high pressure/high temperature experimental geology

Post Doctoral Fellow Malin Waage - CAGE

  • Fields of expertise: Methane seepage, 4D P-Cable seismic, marine geology

University of Bergen

Associate Professor Andreas Beinlich

  • Fields of expertise: Fluid-rock interactions, hydrothermal systems, ultramafic rock

Associate Professor Christian Haug Eide

  • Fields of expertise: Sedimentology, volcanism, geohazards

Professor Haflidi Haflidason

  • Fields of expertise: Marine geology, marine stratigraphy and processes, volcanology- tephrastratigraphy

Professor William Helland-Hansen

  • Fields of expertise: Sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy, source-to-sink

Professor Ritske Huismans

  • Fields of expertise: Geodynamics, tectonics, modelling

Professor Joachim Jacobs

  • Fields of expertise: Tectonics, thermochronology, geochronology, orogen, structural geology

Professor Kerim Nisancioglu

  • Fields of expertise: Climate dynamics, paleoclimate

Professor Stéphane Rondenay

  • Fields of expertise: Seismology, Solid earth, Earth structure and dynamics

Professor Atle Rotevatn

  • Fields of expertise: Tectonics, structural geology, evolution of faults and sedimentary basins

Researcher Thibaut Barreyre

  • Fields of expertise: Fluid Flow, DEEP Ocean, Heat and matter fluxes

Professor Ulysses Silas Ninnemann

  • Fields of expertise: Isotope geochemistry, paleoceanography, carbon cycle and transfer across geospheres.

University of Oslo

Professor Torgeir B. Andersen

  • Fields of expertise: Geology, Wilson cycle Tectonics, Structural Geology, Field studies

Professor Alvar Braathen

  • Fields of expertise: Structural geology and basin evolution

Associate Professor Asbjørn Johan Breivik

  • Fields of expertise: Wide angle seismic modeling, potential field methods, continental breakup and deep ocean magmatism

Professor Clinton Conrad

  • Fields of expertise: Solid Earth Geophysics, Mantle Dynamics, Geodynamics

Professor Henning Dypvik

  • Fields of expertise: Sedimentology, geochemistry, petrography

Professor Carmen Gaina

  • Fields of expertise: Marine geophysics, plate tectonics, microcontinent formation, paleobathymetry

Professor Joe LaCasce

  • Fields of expertise: Oceanography, Meteorology, Climate

Professor Valerie Maupin

  • Field of expertise: Seismology

Researcher Adriano Mazzini

  • Fields of expertise: Marine Geology, Geochemistry, Sedimentology

Professor Francois Renard

  • Fields of expertise: Rock physics

Postdoctoral Fellow Boris Robert

  • Fields of expertise: Paleomagnetism, plate tectonics and mantle dynamics 

Researcher Henrik Svensen

  • Research interests: Metamorphic, volcanic, and fluid flow processes in sedimentary basins, and its implications for movement of fluids and gases between different reservoirs

Professor Trond H. Torsvik

  • Fields of expertise: Plate Tectonics, Plumes, Geodynamics, Paleomagnetism, Earth History

Professor Stephanie Werner

  • Fields of expertise: Comparative Planetology, Planetary Dynamics, Planetary Physics

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS)

Associate Professor Maria Jensen

  • Fields of expertise: Sedimentology, sedimentary processes and basin analysis

Professor Snorre Olaussen

  • Fields of expertise: Basin fill, sequence stratigraphy, siliciclastic and carbonate sedimentology and petroleum geology

Associate Professor Kim Senger

  • Fields of expertise: High Arctic Large Igneous Province, CO2 sequestration, Gas hydrates, Structural geology

Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL)

Associate Professor Deta Gasser - Department of Environmental Sciences

  • Fields of expertise: Tectonics, Geochronology, Regional geology/Field mapping

DEEP Associates

List of active associates

  • Christian Meeßen, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum GFZ, Potsdam, Germany
  • Felipe Padilha Leitzke, Steinmann Institute, University of Bonn, Germany
  • Harriet Godwin, University of Oxford, UK
  • Ibrahim Ilhan, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
  • Nevra Bulut, Istanbul Technical University - Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences, Turkey
  • Matheus Ariel Battisti, CNPq, Brasil
  • Anna Gülcher, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
  • Liam Hoare, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, UK
  • Sara Vulpius, Department of Earth Sciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • Flore Van Maldeghem, Chemistry Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium
  • Anna Marie Rose Sartell, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Pranav Audhkhasi, NTNU, Norway
  • Yang Ruitang, UiO, Norway
  • Wiktoria Gmochowska, Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Science (P.A.S.)
  • Heiðrikur í Garði Mortensen, Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University
  • Gabriel Zachén, Department of Geology, Lund University
  • Youyuan Zhang, Institute of Geophysics, China Earthquake Administration
Published May 10, 2016 2:55 PM - Last modified Jan. 7, 2024 4:03 PM