Tidligere disputaser

Maria Markova will defend her thesis "Approaching the pygmy dipole resonance in Sn isotopes with the Oslo method" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Ph.d.-kandidat Annie Elisabeth Jerkins ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Improved Understanding of Seismicity in the North Sea for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Emilie Hernes Vereide at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'The Effects of Seismic Surveys on Marine Zooplankton' for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Liudmila Sorokina at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Bioactive peptides from poultry by-product hydrolysate targeting cardiometabolic diseases: production, characterization, and bioavailability" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Cand.scient Jens T Thielemann at the Department of Informatics will be defending his dissertation for the degree of Dr.philos.:

"Optical 3D imaging for subsea and space applications"

Doctoral candidate Sanaz Tavakolisomeh at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis User-Centric Approaches to Garbage Collector Selection and Heap Size Optimization for Java for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marta Różańska at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Utility Based Optimization Of Cloud Application Resources for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ole-Johan Skrede at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Selected studies on the application of histological image analysis in cancer diagnostics using deep learning for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Olga Zlygosteva will defend her thesis " Normal tissue effects and cytokine responses after fractionated X-ray or proton radiotherapy of the head and neck region in mice" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Anders Sandnes at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Bayesian machine learning for virtual flow metering for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anthi Papadopoulou at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Automated Text Sanitization Beyond Named Entities: Resources, Methods, Evaluation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Lars Frogner, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Modelling accelerated particles in the solar atmosphere" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lin Xue at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Communication and interaction among surface-adhered membranous protocells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Steffen M. Brask will defend his thesis "Numerical Study of Langmuir Probes: Improving Accuracy Using PIC Simulations" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Asena Goren at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Exploring the roles of seasonality and demography in tick borne disease dynamics' for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Clara Bertinelli Salucci at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Advancing data-driven diagnostics and prognostics for lithium-ion batteries: A focus on model interpretability and accuracy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ana Lucía Campaña Perilla will defend her thesis "Palladium-based nanoparticles produced by Escherichia coli:
Insights into synthesis and physicochemical characterization of microbial nanoparticles." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Nilza Eliana Correia De Lemos Collinson at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Historical analysis of the institutional dynamics surrounding the implementation of health management information systems in developing countries: The case of Mozambique for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Stephane Poulain at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Capillarity, Elastohydrodynamic, and Fluid-Structure Interactions at Small Scales for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Emil Herman Frøen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "The synthesis, crystal structure and properties of bichalcogenides" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Even Simonsen Håland will defend his thesis "A search for heavy neutral gauge bosons and dark-sector particles with the ATLAS detector" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Viktor Balch Barth at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Endomorphisms of ℙ¹ and 𝔸ⁿ. Motivic homotopy classes and open images for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jasmina Masovic at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis The relational view of the impact of new technologies on medical work: The case of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anders Brennhagen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Bi metallates as conversion-alloying anodes for Na-ion batteries" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Renate Marie Alling at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Environmental and genetic factors affecting endosperm-based post-zygotic hybridization barriers' for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Ines Petra Junge at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Good design doesn’t cost the Earth: How sustainability in ICT is enabled, encouraged, engaged, and exemplified by means of the mobile phone for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Bjørnar Valbø at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Towards Re-Calibrating the IS-Notion of Affordances for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sara Mohammadi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Local Energy Trading Markets with Prosumers Considering Fairness and Security for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Lisa M. Buschmann will defend her thesis "Ionospheric plasma structuring at high latitudes. Studies with in-situ measurements by sounding rockets and satellites" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Mohammad Amin Razbani will defend his thesis “Numerical Modelling of Mineral-Microbe Interactions
Investigation on microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Edvard Aksnes at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Tropical homology manifolds for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Martin Myhre Jensen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Synthesis, Characterization, and In situ / Operando Studies of Pt-Rh Model Catalysts for the NH₃ Oxidation Reaction" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Melanie Lianne Engelfriet at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 'Characterization of Caenorhabditis elegans METL-13 during health and disease' for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Roberto Rossini at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Developing reproducible and efficient computational tools for modeling and analysis of dynamic multi-level 3D genome organization" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Rafael Riudavets Puig at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Deciphering transcriptional regulation and its role in cancer for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Bruno Guilherme Fischer Eggert at the department of chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Composition tuning microstructure and magnetic properties of High Entropy Alloys and MnNiSi-based compounds” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Line Gaard Pedersen will defend her thesis “Nuclear structure along the Z = 28 and Z = 50 shells — Shell evolution and shape coexistence in ^74,76,78Cu and ¹²⁶Sn” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Espen Volnes at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Distributed Stream Processing: Performance Evaluation and Enhanced Operator Migration for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Abbas Tariverdi will defend his thesis “Modeling and Control of a Continuum Manipulator for Clinical Automation” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Svein Gunnar Kjøde at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Entanglement of Systemic Design and Sustainability Transitions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Danielle Marie Barna ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Flood frequency analysis at multiple durations for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Adrián Lopez-Porras at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Adaptive Humoral Immunity in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), a Teleost Fish with Evolutionary Losses of MHCII and CD4" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Flore Kersten at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "A double-edged sword. AB toxins as attack (cholera toxin) and defense (CCTX2) mechanisms" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Riccardo Parviero at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Statistical modelling of adoption processes on social graphs for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andreas Oslandsbotn at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Scaling kernel-based learning for big data for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Mahika Luthra at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Computational Study on the Electrochemical Reduction of CO₂ using Transition Metal catalysts with Pendant Amines" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Romain Pierre Jacques Marie Corseri ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Magnetotelluric Investigations of Rifted Systems – Data Analysis, Inversion and Application to the SW Barents Sea for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ramtin Aryan at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Software Defined Networks
troubleshooting using formal approaches for monitoring, probing and self-correction (auto-correction) for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Qindong Zhang at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Development of Macrophage-Targeting Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alice Frantz Schneider at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Sustainability transitions in e-waste management: insights from field studies in Ghana, Brazil, and China for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lonneke Scheffer at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Machine learning and computational analyses of adaptive immune receptors for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Verena Mertes at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Extracellular vesicles from Gram-negative fish pathogens and their potential vaccine application" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Isabel Montoya Arroyave, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Multi-tracer molecular gas observations of local infrared luminous galaxies" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Birgit Malene Tovik Wollmann at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Biomarkers of CYP3A4 and CYP2D6 metabolism in vivo" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marta María Vila Pozo at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Institutional Shaping of Effective Use of Routine Health Data Management in the Context of Global Humanitarian Organizations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Milou van Rijnbach will defend her thesis “Radiation Hard Multi-chip Sensor to Module Integration for Monolithic and Hybrid Pixel Detectors” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Sudhagar Balasundaram at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Ecological transitions and evolutionary genomics of the invasive brown rot fungus Serpula lacrymans" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Martina Martin Tzanova at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Investigation of the influence of the unstirred water layer on drug permeability and release from nanocarriers" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dinh Uy Tran at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Holistic Understanding of Information Security Posture for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Ane Haarr at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Occurrence and dynamics of organic contaminants in Tanzanian biota: legacies of past production and emerging concerns" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Luk Bjarne Burchard at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Repurposing Domain-specific Hardware Accelerators for Sparse and Irregular High-Performance General-Purpose Computation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Kine Ødegård Hanssen will defend her thesis “Effects of perineuronal nets on conductive and capacitive properties of neurons: Computational studies” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Ph.d.-kandidat Renate Mauland-Hus, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Large-scale structure with massive neutrinos and modified gravity: A simulation-based approach" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tonje Gottenberg Skaalvik at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Exploring Electromembrane Extraction as Sample Preparation in a Clinical Routine Laboratory" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Sneha Pandit, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "A new look at Solar-Stellar Activity with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Frida Sveen Hempel at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Substituted Na-based Layered Tellurates: Synthesis, Local Structure and Na-Dynamics” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Benedicte Sverdrup Ofstad at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Time-domain quantum dynamics: Optical properties from time-dependent electronic-structure theory” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Coline Lili Mathy Bouchayer ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Transient glacier dynamics and subglacial hydro-mechanical processes for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Thea Josefine Ellevold at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis
Numerical investigations of internal solitary waves: the evolution of instability in the bottom boundary layer and the wave-vortex-induced particle motion for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor .

Ph.d.-kandidat Ragnhild Aurvik, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "The search for inflationary B-mode signal with future CMB experiments" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Melania Rogowska at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Antimicrobial surfaces through photoactivation" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Camille Crapart at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Origin and Fate of Dissolved Organic Matter under the Environmental Changes of the 21^st Century” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Maksym Teslyk will defend his thesis “Information entropy and its applications in high-energy physics and astrophysics” for the degree of doctor philosophiae at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Lucas Yudi Hataishi at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Quantum symmetries implemented by quantum groups and unitary tensor categories for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor .

Ph.d.-kandidat Juditha Aga ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen The thermal regime and stability of permafrost in sloping terrain - observations and numerical modelling for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Qinghua Xu at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Traversing the Data Spectrum: Path to Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems through Digital Twins for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Christiane Færestrand Ellefsen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Structural and immunomodulatory properties of β-glucans from edible mushrooms" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Florine Enengl will defend her thesis “Investigation of Ionospheric Plasma Structuring and Processes related to Auroral Particle Precipitation” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Pascal Sado will defend his thesis “Machine Learning in Auroral Image Research; Aurora Image Classification using Machine Learning Techniques and Substorm Forecasting” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Ph.d.-kandidat Johannes Røsok Eskilt, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Signatures of New Physics in the CMB: From Cosmic Topology to Cosmic Birefringence" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Helle Merethe Bakke, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Impact of nanoflare heating in the lower solar atmosphere" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Helene Lunder Halvorsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Sources and processes controlling the occurrence of legacy POPs and organic contaminants of emerging concern in European air" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Christine Olsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Multifaceted challenges with liquid chromatography mass spectrometry determination of bioactive hormones secreted from stem cell-derived islet organoid” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Peter Betlem ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen De-risking top seal integrity - Imaging heterogeneity across shale-dominated cap rock sequences for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Karianne Ødemark ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Extreme precipitation and physical model-based estimates for return values and PMP in Norway for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ben Tore Henriksen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Towards optimised medication management and pharmacotherapy for hip fracture patients in primary and secondary healthcare settings; current perspectives and an intervention for patient safety" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Thore Espedal Moe, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Line formation in the magnetized solar chromosphere" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Gezime Seferi at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Hippocampal lipid droplets and the gut microbiome: Effects of type 2 diabetes and exercise" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Stine Eidhammer Rognan at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Clinical risk factors, and barriers in medication communication. A contribution to better patient care" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tamas Bisztray at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Investigating Privacy Aspects of Identity Management: From Data Protection Impact Assessment for Biometric Applications to Privacy-Centric Password Testing for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Eva Lieungh at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Changing alpine vegetation dynamics: insight from complementary modelling and observation approaches" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

PhD candidate Annette Taugbøl at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Salinity transitions, population differentiation and phenotypic plasticity in the threespine stickleback" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Michele Giordano at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis On stochastic control for Volterra type dynamics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Sverre Grødem at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Brain Plasticity, Extracellular Matrix Molecules, and Advancements in Calcium Imaging of Neural Activity" for the degree of PhD.

Qasim Waheed Malik will defend his thesis “Characterisation of a monolithic pixel sensor for calorimetric applications” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Bilal Ünal at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Molecular characterization of the unfolded protein response and implications for prostate cancer" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Mateu Montserrat Canals at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Molecular warfare: A structural biology view on pathogen weapons — GbpA from Vibrio cholerae — and host defences — Vg from the honey bee" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Máté Mile ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Advanced assimilation of satellite observations in a limited-area numerical weather prediction model over the Arctic region for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Rebecca Anne Robinson, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Magnetic characteristics of quiet Sun nanoflares" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Elke Eriksen at the Department of Biosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Occupational exposure to bioaerosols in the waste sorting industry & potential exposure related health effects" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Manuel Carrer at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "From All-Atom To Mesoscale: Bridging The Gap With Differentiable Molecular Dynamics" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Selina Demi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Blockchain-oriented Requirements Engineering: A Framework for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andreas Thune at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis High performance computing for reservoir simulation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Benedikte Wallace at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis AI-generated Dance and The Subjectivity Challenge for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Eli Bæverfjord Rye will defend her thesis “Searching for chargino–neutralino pair production in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Margret Veltman at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Hitting a moving target: Novel genomic resources to identify and trace traded orchids" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Doctoral candidate Cristiana Ferreira Tiago at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Deep Generative Models Applied to 2D and 3D Echocardiography: Image Generation and Analysis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Daniel Christopher Herman, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Cosmoglobe: Deconstructing the microwave and sub-mm sky" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Jonas Rønning will defend his thesis “Topological defects and flows in BECs and Active matter” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Mari Dahl Eggen at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Stochastic differential equations with memory and relations - Modelling of stratospheric dynamics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Stine Hverven Thon at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Image Quality Enhancement in Medical Ultrasound: Detecting Point Scatterers for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yogita Thakral at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Institutional work for digitally mediated AMR data management: A process-based approach in a resource constrained setting in India for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Juvenal Murwanashyaka at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Papers on Weak First-Order Theories and Decidability Problems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Francesco Pogliano will defend his thesis “Nuclear astrophysics and the Oslo method. A study on experimental and theoretical radiative neutron-capture rates and their role in heavy-element nucleosynthesis” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Festus Mukoya at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Interplay of ICTs and social capital in building and scaling peace networks within contexts of violent ethnic conflicts: a study from Kenya for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Severin Elvatun at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Towards more personalized cervical cancer prevention: Prototyping data-driven methods predicting cervical cancer development from cancer registry data for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marthe Nordengen Berntzen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Coordination Mechanisms in Large-Scale Agile Software Development: A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Mohammed Outhmane Faouzi Zizi ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Seismic Data Processing in a Compressed Domain using Constrained Dictionary Learning for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Erik Habbestad at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis C∗-algebras with quantum group symmetry -Noncommutative boundaries and equivariant subproduct systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Karoline Kvande at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Compositional and Mechanistic Studies of Cu-zeolites for the Direct Activation of Lower Alkanes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Sigrid Jørgensen Bakke ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Recent European warm-season droughts: drivers, extremeness and impacts – With a special focus on the 2018 drought in northern Europe for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Bastian Zapf at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Inverse mathematical modeling of solute transport in the human brain for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Dorthea Gjestvang will defend her thesis “Excitation energy propagation and angular momentum generation in the nuclear fission process” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Dabao Sun Lü at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Fungi contain multitudes: Tempo and modes of evolution in the purplepore bracket fungus Trichaptum" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Jonas Verhellen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Computational Diversity in Neuroscience and Drug Design: Developing Novel Computational Tools Supporting The Study and Treatment of Severe Mental Disorders" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Peyman Rasouli  at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Local Explainability of Tabular Machine Learning Models and its Impact on Model Reliability for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Vinit Ravishankar at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Understanding Multilingual Language Models: Training, Representation and Architecture for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Jon Arthur Borgersen will defend his thesis “Intrinsic defect dependent resistivity in semiconducting oxides” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Vidar Skogvoll will defend his thesis “Symmetry, topology, and crystal deformations: a phase-field crystal approach” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Samuel AS Welch at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Predicting Environmental Risks from Pharmaceuticals under Future Scenarios: A Norwegian Example" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Maaike Francine Maria Weerdesteijn ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Solid earth deformation due to glacial mass changes above low-viscosity upper mantle: Model development, importance of contemporary ice melt, and an application to southeast Greenland for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Linn Neerbye Berntsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Development of New Synthetic Methods for the Preparation of N-functionalized Hydantoins”, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Jie Hou will defend her thesis “Experimental Sensor Systems for Assessment of Tissue Viability — Monitoring the effects of ischemia-reperfusion injury” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Lene Maria Sundbakk at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Benzodiazepines and z-hypnotics in pregnancy and child neurodevelopment - With focus on causal inference methods in perinatal pharmacoepidemiology" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Samiran Sen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Advances in Hamiltonian Hybrid Particle—Field Theory: Improving the description of interfacial systems" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate María de los Ángeles Ariza Salazar at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Plant diversity assessments through soil eDNA metabarcoding" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Doctoral candidate Alise Danielle Midtfjord at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Machine learning methods for safety-critical systems with time dependency for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Oliver Kersten at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Sea Parrot Genomics: Linking past and present population structure and demography of the Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica)" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Emilie Willoch Olstad at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Prenatal Medication Exposure, DNA Methylation and Child Neurodevelopment" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Aslak Wigdahl Bergersen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis On software tools and variability in medical image-based computational fluid dynamics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Zhuokun Li at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterizing and improving CRISPR-Cas9 system with high-throughput methods" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Elin Thuy Phuong Ngo at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Novel interventions for pregnant women: Pharmacist consultations and mobile applications in pregnancy – with focus on the management of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Sigurd Eide ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

RIMFAX-modeling for Martian subsurface exploration: Ground-penetrating radar studies for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission, during exploration of Jezero Crater Floor.

Siri Fløgstad Svensson will defend her thesis “MR Elastography of the Brain In healthy subjects and patients with glioblastoma” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Ph.d.-kandidat Maksym Brilenkov, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "From theory to practice: Reproducibility and Open Science in the CMB field" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Xinwei Sun at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Quantification of surface protonic conduction in porous oxides" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tamjidmaa Khatanbaatar at the Department of chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Partners in crime – Structure-function studies on chorismate mutases and their associated enzymes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Victoria Ariel Bjørnestad at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Surfactant Micelles and Structural Pathways for Solubilization of Lipid Membranes" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Vemund Stenbekk Thorkildsen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Resolution analysis and enhancement in geophysical imaging and inversion for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Niklas Nilsson at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Intravenous drug co-administration in neonatal and paediatric intensive care patients - examining clinically relevant multi-drug compatibility" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ivar Thokle Hovden will defend his thesis “Structural and functional tracking in longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging of glioblastoma” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Raluca Madalina Florea at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis The Software Tester: An Exploration of the Skills and Practice of the Role for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Håkon Strand Bølviken at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Tailoring Deformable Models to Extract Meaningful Metrics and Landmarks from 3D Echocardiograms for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Bjørn Skauli at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Rationality Properties of Some Hypersurfaces and Complete Intersections for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Julia Fredrika Alopaeus at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Development and evaluation of oromucosal graft co-polymer-based film formulations as patient-centric dosage forms" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kamer Vishi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Security and Privacy in User Authentication: Aspects of Fusion, Machine Learning, and Privacy in Biometric Authentication for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Lisa Schroer at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The Histidine Methyltransferase Universe: Characterization of METTL9 and CARNMT1 – Two Novel Protein Histidine Methyltransferases" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Lane Atmore at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Tracing the Early Origins of the Atlantic Herring Trade Using Ancient DNA" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate André Moan at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Bycatches of harbour porpoises in  Norwegian coastal gillnet  fisheries: implications for  management and conservation" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Yu-Ping Fu at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Bioactive polysaccharides and phenolic compounds from two Aconitum plants: Aconitum carmichaelii and Aconitum septentrionale"for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Maged Helmy at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis A Software Architecture for AI-based, Efficient, Real-Time, Resource Limited Medical Image Analysis: A Case Study of a Quantitative Analysis of Microcirculatory System for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Åvald Åslaugson Sommervoll at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Machine learning for offensive
cyber operations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Sophie Mentzel at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Ecological risks of pesticides under future climate and land-use scenarios: A Bayesian network approach" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Eleonora Piersanti at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Parameter-robust formulation and preconditioning of poroelasticity equations for brain modelling for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Julian Fuhrer at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Implicit Encoding of Seemingly Unstructured Auditory Stimuli for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Farzan Majeed Noori at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Multimodal Deep Learning Approaches for Human Activity Recognition for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kevin Gregor Both at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Plasmonically Enhanced Photocatalysis: Synthesis, Physical Properties and Applications”, for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Marius Stephane A Lambert ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Modelling the critical role of cold acclimation for vegetation survival during extreme winter weather for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anton Yurchenko-Tytarenko at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Stochastic Volterra volatility models for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Evelien Jacoba Cornelia van Dijk ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen A Tale of Fire and Ice: How clusters of large volcanic eruptions shaped climate and societies of the mid- to late-Holocene for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Lourdes Martínez García at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Shadows of the past, a life through fisheries and climate change: Historical patterns in the evolution, demography and distribution of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ann-Christin Sannes at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The influence of psychosocial stressors, genetic variability, and gender on subjective health complaints  - Abusive supervision, genetics, and health complaints" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat James Ronald Johnson ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Integrated analysis of kerogen maturation and microfracture dynamics in organic-rich shales for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Yupeng Zhang at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Investigation of methylome, transcriptome and phenotypic changes induced by temperature during asexual and sexual reproduction in the woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca)" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Bjørn Ivar Teigen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Opportunities and Limitations in Network Quality Optimization; Quality Attenuation Models of WiFi Network Variability for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Denis Zosen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Action of neuroactive pharmaceuticals in neurodevelopmental models" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Chloé Markussen Marcilly ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Modelling atmospheric CO₂ levels during the Phanerozoic: testing the main carbon sources and sinks as climate forcings over different timescales for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jonas Meier Strømme at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Computational analyses of transcriptomic alterations in prostate and colorectal cancers” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Anette Vik Jøsendal at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Multidose drug dispensing in home care services - Impact of a shared medication list on medication safety" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Reshma Krishnan Madathil at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Novel approaches and interface engineering for the fabrication and stability of thermoelectric components and modules” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Henrik Nygaard Hansen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Reservoir quality characterization and prediction of deeply buried clay coated sandstones on the NCS, Examples from the South Western Barents Sea and Northern North Sea for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Emilie Claussen Iversen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Predictions of atmospheric icing and winter precipitation for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hamed Arshad at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Toward Semantic Attribute-Based Access Control: Fine-grained protection of data in e-Health for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Solveig Astrid Krapf at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Regulation of energy metabolism in human skeletal muscle cells and adipocytes: Effects of SENP2 knockdown and conditioned medium from human pancreatic carcinoma cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Florence Dela Cruz Ramirez ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Improving upper mantle viscosity estimates: Constraints from seismic and magnetotelluric data, and impacts on asthenospheric flow for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alexander Lobbe at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Machine Learning for the Stochastic Filtering Problem for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Nils-Jørgen Knudsen Dal at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Tuberculosis, Nanomedicine & the Zebrafish Bridging the gap between in vitro and in vivo models" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Åshild Telle at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Modeling cardiac mechanics on a microscale; Mechanical modeling and analysis of cardiomyocytes and cardiac micromuscles for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Lina Allesson at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "CO2:O2 balance in boreal freshwaters in a changing climate" for the degree of PhD.

Cand.Pharm Anne Elisabeth Muri Sverdrup Efjestad at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Use of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors: length of treatment, sex differences and comedication with focus on psychotropics, analgesics and heart rate related drugs" for the degree of Doctor Philosophiae.

Knut Oddvar Høie Vadla will defend his thesis "Search for production of charginos and neutralinos in dilepton final states with the ATLAS detector at the LHC" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Camilla Lo Cascio Sætre at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic and phenotypic consequences of range  expansion and colonisation" for the degree of PhD.

M.sc. Mari Øgaard ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor: 

Methodology for performance evaluation of PV systems - with a special focus on high latitudes and snow

Doctoral candidate Jonas Sæther Markussen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis SmartIO: Device sharing and memory disaggregation in PCIe clusters using non-transparent bridging for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lennart Kyllesø at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Psychopharmacological aspects associated with clozapine treatment in patients with schizophrenia - a study based on therapeutic drug monitoring data" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lisbeth Damlien Nymoen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Factors of concern regarding drug-related patient safety in emergency department - A summary of results from a randomized controlled trial and observational studies" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ali Dadashi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Ultra-Low-Voltage and Energy-Efficient Circuit
Techniques for iOTs for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dennis Gan at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis New Venture Governance and Accelerated Growth; Toward Board Superstructures in Venturing Firms for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Jeriek Van den Abeele will defend his thesis "Dashing Through Search Spaces in the Physical Sciences" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Kine Eide Kvitne at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Pharmacokinetic variability in patients with obesity and healthy individuals - the role of cytochrome P450" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Erik Bryhn Myklebust at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Ecotoxicological Effect Prediction using a Tailored Knowledge Graph

 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Asbjørn Slagtern Fjellvåg at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Platinum catchment by noble metal alloys and structural studies of Pt- and Rh-containing perovskites” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Angélica María Cuevas Pulido at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The evolutionary fate of a hybrid lineage - The potential for genomic differentiation in an admixed species" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Nadeem Joudeh at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Escherichia coli-mediated palladium nanoparticle synthesis" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Juan Camilo Guevara Gomez ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Observations of the dynamics and structure of the solar atmosphere with ALMA" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Katharina Vestre at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Regulation of cell migration and division by Rab GTPases" for the degree of PhD.

Msc. Giuseppe at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis
«Vapour-solid interactions for SMSB and asymmetric amplification of pyrimidine and pyridine aldehydes» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Elisabeth Opsjøn Lampe at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "The fish pathogen Francisella noatunensis subsp noatunensis: virulence factor characterization and vaccine development" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dennis Schroers at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis New Topics in Nonlinear Functional Data Analysis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kristjon Ciko at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Improving Internet Performance with a “Clean-Slate” Network Architecture
The Case of RINA

 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Robert Bleckert Nils Håkan Wissing ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Simulating Galactic Dynamo Processes with Smoothed Particle Magnetohydrodynamics" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Stian Thomas Heimdal Hartman ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Cosmology of Scalar Field Dark Matter with Self-Interactions" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Marta Trodahl ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Vortices in the Subarctic Seas and their interactions with bottom topography for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Saulo Soares de Toledo at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Managing Architectural Technical Debt in Microservices for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Isabelle Gerz at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis
« Bioinspired Copper Complexes for Incorporation into UiO-67» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Milena Pavlovic at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Machine learning for the analysis of adaptive immune receptors and repertoires for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Mohamed Julius Kibaja at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Behavioural ecology and conservation of Ashy red colobus monkeys (Piliocolobus tephrosceles) in western Tanzania" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Trygve Leithe Svalheim ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Closing the Loop, Joint Analysis of CMB Systematics and Foregrounds" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Vegard Sæter Grytting at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The pro-inflammatory effects of mineral  particles in cells of the human airways" for the degree of PhD.

MSc. Wen Tan at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis 
«The Atmospheric Fate of Selected Amines Emitted from Carbon Capture Facilities»  for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Abel Mulu Mengeste at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Effects of in vitro exercise and modulation of SERCA on energy metabolism in human skeletal muscle cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Eric Adu-Gyamfi at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Frugal Digital Innovation for Health Information Systems in Resource-Constrained Settings: The Case of Sierra Leone

 for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Floris Eelke Elzinga at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Free Probabilistic and Poisson–Lie Geometric Methods for Quantum Groups for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Md Jamilur Rahman ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Seal, and overburden rock characterization of potential CO2 storage sites in the northern North Sea for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Yuri Stephan van Ekelenburg at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Investigations on Dynamic Regulation of Genomic Imprinting in the Arabidopsis Endosperm" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Christine Skagen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Pharmacological and genetic approaches to modulate energy metabolism in skeletal muscle cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Johanne Naper Trønnes at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Medication safety in pregnancy - with focus on analgesics and neurodevelopmental outcomes in children" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Vanessa Wyrwoll will defend her thesis "Unique particle beams and energies at CERN applied to radiation testing of electronics" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Naomi Croft Guslund at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Characterising the Atlantic cod immune system with single-cell transcriptomics" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Magnus Li at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Enterprise Software as Design Infrastructure for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Daniel Bakkelund at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Order Preserving Hierarchical
Clustering for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Henriette Engen Berg at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis
“Exploring miniaturized chromatography formats and sample preparation methods for shotgun proteomics in limited biological samples” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Maja Nipen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis
«Spatial and temporal trends of anthropogenic pollutants in a tropical, urban environment in East Africa» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
 

PhD candidate Clarissa Akemi Kajiya Endo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Early life stages of Northeast Arctic cod under various climate and demographic stock conditions" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Kaixing Dong at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Bottom-up effects on plankton dynamics in Northeast Atlantic and Arctic seas" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Gerd Marie Eskerud Harris at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Migraine pharmacotherapy during pregnancy: Utilization patterns and associations with child neurodevelopment" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andreas Nakkerud at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Integer Programming Approaches for Real-Time Traffic Management for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Johanna Johansen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Towards Making Privacy Usable for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Morten Ledum at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Hamiltonian hybrid particle-field method for biological soft matter: Efficient simulation and machine learning approaches » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Volodya Valeriev Hlebnikov ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Deep learning as a tool for seismic data interpolation for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Martin Nyborg will defend his thesis “Dominant Defect Complexes in Cuprous Oxide” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Markus Musch at the Department of Mathematics will be defending the thesis Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Laws on Graphs for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Vincent Thio will defend his thesis «Sensor fusion for indoor positioning and navigation systems» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

PhD candidate Dereje Tesfaye Delkaso at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The Omo River guereza (Colobus guereza guereza) in habitats with varying  levels of fragmentation and disturbance in the southern Ethiopian Highlands:  behavioral ecology and phylogeny" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Tor Erik Eriksen at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "A macroinvertebrate‐based biomonitoring tool for diagnosing environmental conditions of rivers in Myanmar – a novel approach in a biodiversity hotspot" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).

Vetle Wegner Ingeberg will defend his thesis «The Oslo Method in inverse Kinematics» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

MSc. Håkon Emil Kristiansen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis « Coupled-Cluster Theory for Electron Dynamics » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Ganna Reint at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Refinement strategies for  CRISPR Cas9 genome editing" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Ina Meuskens at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Insights into the Binding Mechanism and Function of Bacterial Adhesins - Interactions between YadA and Host Extracellular Matrix Components" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Hans Brenna ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Modeling the atmospheric, climatic and environmental impacts of sulfur- and halogen-rich explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Lorenzo Pin at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "How hydropower induced changes in temperature, quality and quantity of water influences structure and functioning of riverine biofilms" for the degree of PhD.

PhD candidate Daniel Hatlem at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Probing the role of lipopolysaccharides in Gram-negative protein secretion and biogenesis" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Knut Kjetil Holgeid at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Benefits from Investments in IT Development for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Giovanni Domenico Di Salvo at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Proper Holomorphic Embeddings of open Riemann Surfaces into C² and holomorphic mappings between complex manifolds with dense images for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Cise Midoglu at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Empirical Analysis of QoS and QoE in Mobile Broadband Networks for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alma Mulac at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Medication errors in hospitals - Exploring medication safety through incident reports and observation of practice" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Dapeng Lan at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Service Orchestration and Resource Optimization in the Fog-Cloud Continuum for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Kai Morgan Kjølerbakken will defend his thesis “Computational study of Langmuir probe properties in ionospheric plasma” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Ph.d.-kandidat Marthe Grønlie Guren ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Imaging and modelling nanoscale dynamics of mineral-mineral and mineral-fluid interfaces during mechano-chemical transformations for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jakob Schreiner at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Patient Specific Computational Models of the Brain and Electroconvulsive Therapy for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Elisa Cazzador at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Topics in the geometry of spaces of symmetric tensors for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andrea Raffo at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Mathematical methods for geometry reconstruction and shape analysis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Kine Onsum Moseid ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen The dim and distant past: Constraining aerosol forcing history in the 20th century for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Frøydis Sved Skottvoll at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending her thesis «Liver organoids, mass spectrometry and separation science» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Mihaela-Alexandra Puica at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advances in Wind Power Modeling: Merging Research and Market Experience for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Simen Hellesund will defend his thesis “Searching for New Physics in Resonant and Non-Resonant Dilepton Final States With the ATLAS Detector at the LHC” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Gard Olav Helle at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Instanton Floer Homology and Binary Polyhedral Spaces for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Hwei-Ming Chung at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Computation and Learning Intelligence for Automated Scheduling and Inspection in Smart Grids for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Kristian Joten Andersen ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Improved Planck processing through integrated component separation" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Peter Horvath ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Ecological Climatology and Distribution Modelling for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Johan Blakkisrud will defend his thesis "Dosimetry in patients treated with [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu-lilotomab satetraxetan" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

MSc. Jakob Stensgaard Diget at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis «In Pursuit of Well-Defined Organic Polymers - Controlled Synthesis and Accurate Characterization» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Ulrike Bayr ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Survey techniques in landscape monitoring: testing new quantitative methods to assess landscape change for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Cédric Le Texier at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Combinatorial Patchworking, Real Tropical Curves and Hyperbolic Varieties for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Nils-Anders Johannes Labba at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "In vitro models and methods for assessment of developmental neurotoxicity and neuroprotection" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Jing Sun ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Deep learning-based seismic data processing for attenuation of interference noise and deblending in the shot domain for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Dr Philos candidate Tore Qvenild at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Climatic impact on the crustacean species Lepidurus arcticus, Gammarus lacustris and Eurycercus lamellatus on brown trout Salmo trutta production in a high mountain area in Southern Norway" for the degree of Dr Philos.

Ph.d.-kandidat Thomas André Larsen Greiner ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Deep learning in seismic wavefield reconstruction and resolution enhancement for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral Candidate Jan Sulavik at the Natural History Museum will be defending the dissertation "Learning from the past, assessing the present, discerning the future: a comprehensive evaluation of restoration success in alpine environment using ecosystem-, community-, and population-level studies", for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral Candidate Julien Vollering at the Natural History Museum will be defending the dissertation "Forecasting the continued naturalization of wildly planted alien conifers: on Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) in Norway", for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Flora Nah Asah at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Challenges and Approaches of Implementing Standard Health Indicators in Hierarchical Organizations: A multi-sited study for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Mohammad Masoudi ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Near Wellbore Processes during Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS): An Integrated Modeling Approach for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Svenja Christiansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "From acoustic scattering layers to individuals - behaviour of a mesopelagic fish at different scales" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Eli Børve ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Tides and Transport: Application to Lofoten and Vesterålen, Northern Norway for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Karolina Spustova at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Membranous Protocell Superstructures» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Anna Theresia Maria ter Schure at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Dung, Dirt & DNA: unearthing past and present biodiversity through eDNA metabarcoding" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate Christopher Lawrence at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Extreme Wave Statistics of Surface Gravity Waves over Bathymetry for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Judith Jing Wen Wong at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Photochemical Strategies to Eliminate Cancer Cells" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Elisabeth Lundsør at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Phytoplankton community dynamics in the Oslofjorden based on a century long time series" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Anouk Tosca Klootwijk ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Benthic foraminiferal biomonitoring in northern Norway: Establishing reference conditions, Ecological Quality Statuses and responses to organic matter for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Ulrich Wolfgang Weber ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Applicability of Noble Gases for CO2 Capture and Storage Monitoring for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Xiaolan Kang at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending her thesis «Novel nanostructured materials for energy applications» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Bjørgunn Heggem Dalslåen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen The Early to Late Ordovician rock record of the Oppdal area, Scandinavian Caledonides: Explosive volcanism, element recycling and basin infill during closure of the Iapetus Ocean for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Bente Konst, at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Development of novel methods for quality control and optimization of digital planar X-ray and fluoroscopic imaging for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Anette Johansen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Omics approaches to study mechanisms of anoxia tolerance in crucian carp (Carassius carassius)" for the degree of PhD.

Msc. Julie Denise Josette Héron at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «C-H Activation and CuAAC Reactions with 1,8-Naphthyridine Based Dicopper Complexes from a Computational Perspective» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jonas van den Brink at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Computing Microscopic Structure-Function Relationships in Contraction of the Heart for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Louison Thorens will defend his thesis Unstable drainage of frictional fluids and magnetic control of the mechanical behavior of confined granular media for the double degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and Docteur en Physique de l'Université de Lyon.

Doctoral candidate Summaya Mumtaz at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Hierarchy-based Similarity Measures and Embeddings — Supporting Machine Learning by Knowledge for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Solveig Næss at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Biophysical modeling of electric and magnetic brain signals for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Qinghua Liu at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Bayesian Preference Learning with the Mallows Model for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Thea Sveva Faleide ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Seismic imaging of faults and sedimentary systems of the Hoop region, Barents Sea – seismic facies, fault geometries and detection thresholds for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate William B. Reinar at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic short tandem repeats as modulators of gene expression and protein function" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Ole Rabbel ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Fracturing of igneous intrusions emplaced in organic-rich shale: Implications for hydrothermal flow, petroleum systems and exploration in volcanic basins for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Sigmund Guttu ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Forcing from the 11-year Solar Cycle and relevance for inter-annual to decadal climate variability for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Odd Petter Sand will defend his thesis Integrating Computing with Mathematics and Science Education: Case Studies of Student Understanding and Teaching design for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Ainar Drews ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "On microjets in sunspot penumbrae" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Nancy Saana Banono at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Functional analysis of psychiatric risk genes in zebrafish (Danio rerio): a focus on the L-type voltage-gated calcium channel subtypes Cav 1.2 and Cav 1.3" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Carl Martin Rosenberg at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Supporting Continuous Engineering with Unsupervised Log Analysis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Souvik Bose ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "On the dynamics of spicules and mass flows in the solar atmosphere" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Xiaojie Zhu at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Privacy-preserving computation over outsourced dataset for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Johannes C. Rusch at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring of two different  freshwater host-pathogen complexes in the interface between nature and aquaculture" for the degree of PhD.

Ph.d.-kandidat Muhammad Hassaan ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Evaporite-influenced rift basins and salt tectonics in the southeastern Norwegian Barents Sea for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Helene Birkelund Erlandsen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Perturbing and constraining Norway's surface water and energy balance for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Trygve Kvåle Løken at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Experiments and new observation techniques related to wave-ice interactions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sarah Hjorth Andersen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Childhood outcomes after prenatal exposure to analgesics or antibiotics" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Henrik Eklund ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen “Investigating dynamic small-scale events in the Sun with the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array” for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Tonje Sønstevold at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Implications of poly(alkyl cyanoacrylate) nanoparticle- induced cellular stress responses with focus on autophagy" for the degree of PhD.

Magnus Fagernes Ivarsen will defend his thesis Plasma Irregularity Dissipation in the F-Region Ionosphere. Making Sense of the Decay and Subsequent Lifetimes of Turbulent Plasma Structures in the Ionosphere for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Christian Pedersen at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Elastohydrodynamic and capillary thin film flows at small scales for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Krister Stræte Karlsen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Plate Tectonic Controls on Geodynamic Processes: Earth’s Deep Water Cycle, Sea Level Change and Planetary Cooling Patterns for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Msc. Joakim Samuel Jestilä at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Reductive gas-phase ion chemistry of simple oxocarbons in the presence of alkali and alkaline earth metals» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Konstantinos Nikolaidis at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Improving the Classification of Time-Series Data for Sleep Apnea Detection for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Holt John Hancock ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Snow avalanche controls, monitoring strategies, and hazard management in Svalbard for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral Candidate Marcel Polling at the Natural History Museum will be defending the dissertation "The hidden biodiversity of pollen" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Klaudia Carcani at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Co-designing cooperative artifacts with MACI people - A study of empowering practices and artifacts in rehabilitation and co-design” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Frederik André Hansen at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Electromembrane extraction of polar pharmaceutical bases and endogenous metabolites" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Olav Poppe at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Digital Platforms for Standardisation in Global Health, The Case of the Digital Health Packages" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Bjørg Jenny Kokkvoll Engdahl ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Improved predictions of supercooled liquid water and atmospheric icing in the HARMONIE-AROME weather prediction model for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Manas Pradhan ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Interoperability for Disaster Relief Operations in Smart City Environments

Doctoral candidate Christian Agrell at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Probabilistic machine learning and phenomenological knowledge Developments for optimization under uncertainty in safety-critical systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Vasileios Mavroeidis at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Towards Automated Threat-Informed Cyberspace Defense" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Maghsoud Morshedi Chinibolagh ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Machine Learning for Managed Wi-Fi: From best-effort to quality-assessed wireless services

Doctoral candidate Marvin Lambertus at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Lactate Receptor HCA1 in Exercise-induced Neurogenesis" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andrew Gilbert at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Automating Echocardiography Analysis through Deep Learning: Efficient Measurement Workflows and Data Generation" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Lars Grønmark Holmen ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Development of 1.5 µm and 2 µm fiber lasers and applications in 3D-imaging and mid-infrared generation

Ph.d.-kandidat Neelima Kandula ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Dynamic synchrotron imaging of brittle failure in crustal rocks for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tristan Manfred Stöber at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Cooperate to compete — Identifying a potential role for hippocampal region CA2 in episodic memory formation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Henrik Vinther Sørensen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending his thesis «Of Shellfish and Men: Applying X-ray and neutron techniques to investigate surface-active bacterial colonization factors» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Eva Lena Fjeld Estensmo at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The diversity and seasonality of the indoor mycobiome" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Stig Asle Vaksvik Synnes at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advanced Processing for Synthetic Aperture Sonar for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Cristiano Glessi at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Gold-NHC Complexes for Vacuum Deposition Applications: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications in FEBID» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ada Johanne Ellingsrud at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Computational modelling of electrodiffusion and osmosis in cerebral tissue for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sisay Mebre Abie at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Bioimpedance as a tool for monitoring the effect of freezing and thawing of meat"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Maria Bich-Thuy Truong at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy. Management, Consequences and the Community Pharmacist’s Potential Role" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Silvia Lavagnini  at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Stochastic Modelling in Energy Markets - From the Spot Price to Derivative Contracts for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Krister Gjestvang Grønlien at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Sustainable use of rest raw materials: Properties of collagen from turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and potential pharmaceutical and biomedical applications" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Giovanni Romagnoni at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The multiple dimensions of spatial ecology in  fisheries management - How climate, economy, and connectivity shape Cod (Gadus morhua) dynamics in a changing North Sea" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Daniel S. Fava at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Relaxed Memory Models and Data-Race Detection tailored for Shared-Memory Message-Passing Systems for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jostein Bratlie at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Applications of blending splines in interactive geometric modeling for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Matthias Rauter at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Multiphase Navier-Stokes Equations applied to landslide tsunamis: Numerical simulations of granular flows and their interaction with water bodies for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Elif Senem Köksal at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Surface-assisted formation and development of model protocells» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ilse van Herck at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Biophysical and pharmacological properties of small conductance calcium-activated potassium channels for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Anna-Marie Winter at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Nonlinearity, irreversibility and surprise – managing Atlantic cod under climate change" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Andreas Alexander ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Measuring glacial channel hydrology for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Antoine Blachet at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Swath sonar: Advanced waveform modulation and associated signal processing techniques for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Julie Nitsche Kvalvik at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Design and deposition of CaMoO₄ as host for solar down - converters» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Mustafa Sæterdal Kømurcu at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Tailoring solid catalysts for the ethene oligomerization reaction» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Lluís Artús Suàrez at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Computational study on the deaminative hydrogenation of amides catalyzed by base metal complexes» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Manish Shrestha ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

LightSC: A light-weight security classification methodology to design and evaluate security of IoT systems

Doctoral candidate Tao Ma at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Executable Model Based Testing for Self-Healing Cyber-Physical Systems Under Uncertainty for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Shiji Bijo at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Formal Modelling of Cache Coherent Multicore Architectures for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Håvard Tveit Ihle ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Bayesian Data Analysis for Intensity Mapping and CMB Experiments" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral Candidate Trond Simensen  at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Mapping and analysis of landscape diversity." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Kenth-Arne Hansson at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The relationship between cell physiology and size studied in skeletal muscle fibers" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Karl Erik Holter at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Robust preconditioning of multiphysics problems and interstitial fluid flow for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Åsmund Skomedal ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Data-based approaches to efficient operation and maintenance of PV systems

Doctoral candidate Reyna Guadalupe Ramirez de la Torre at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Experiments on Bubble and Droplet Production in Falling Jets and Breaking Waves for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Safdar Aqeel Safdar at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Improving Post-Deployment Configuration of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Machine Learning and Multi-Objective Search for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Sara Marie Blichner ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen From trees to cloud seeds: Modelling the climate influence of biogenic volatile organic compounds with the Norwegian Earth System Model for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Andrea Teatini at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Accurate and effective model-to-patient registration for navigation in image guided laparoscopic liver resection for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Konstantinos Kousias at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Characterization and ML-based Modeling of Mobile Broadband Networks for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral Candidate Hanna Rosa Hjalmarsdottir  at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "New insight into the Taxonomy, Biostratigraphy, and Paleoecology of Jurassic – Cretaceous Arctic foraminifera." for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Audun Skau Hansen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis «Local Correlation Methods for Infinite Systems» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Thomas Zengaffinen-Morris at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Influence of Submarine Landslide Failure and Flow on Tsunami Genesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Siri Bromander at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Understanding Cyber Threat Intelligence - Towards Automation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jørgen Halvorsen Nordmoen at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Enhancing MAP-Elites to overcome challenges in Evolutionary Robotics for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Trine Jahr Hegdahl ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Hydrological ensemble prediction systems: from evaluating daily streamflow forecasts to exploring the impact of selected flood events in a future climate for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Denis Leonard Adaletey at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Design Principles for Data Use in Health Information Systems Developing Countries Perspective for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Fabienne Krauer at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Temperature, toponyms and thresholds. A modelling approach to understanding the spread of plague during the second pandemic" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Elahe Fazeldehkordi ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Security and Privacy Solutions in IoT and Distributed Systems Design

Doctoral candidate Christopher Friedemann at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Simulations of two-phase gas-liquid flow in concentric and eccentric annuli at 0 to 90 degrees inclination using the volume of fluid method for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Veronika Smith at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Cellular signaling and molecular regulation governing motility, biofilm formation, and virulence in the Bacillus cereus group" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Fabio Zeiser at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Uncertainty quantification for nuclear level densities and γ-ray strength functions from the Oslo method and beyond"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Nicholas McKitterick at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for the Analysis of Small Cell Lung Cancer Biomarkers by Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ashish Rauniyar at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Exploring and Enhancing Spectral and Energy Efficiency of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Next-Generation IoT Networks” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Thomas Birchall ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Pore Pressure Regimes of the Northern Barents Shelf - Implications for Fluid Flow for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Shukun Tokas at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Analysis and Enforcement of GDPR-related Privacy Principles in Object-Oriented Distributed Systems” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sondre Andreas Engebråten at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Concurrent multi-tasking drone swarms through quality-diversity methods and COTS hardware for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Raphael Schuler at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Oxide thermoelectrics - materials, junctions and modules » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Chris Hadjineophytou at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Protein glycosylation in the genus Neisseria: coordinated evolution of glycan biosynthesis and substrate targeting" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Misganaw Tamrat Gessese at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Conservation status and behavioral ecology of the endangered Swayne’s hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei) in Ethiopia" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Wilfred Felix Senyoni at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis “Institutional Work in Strengthening Health Information Systems in Fragmented Settings: An Action Research Study of Information Dashboards in East African Community and Indonesia” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Ella Wulfsberg Stokke ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Linking climatic changes and North Atlantic volcanism across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum at Fur, Denmark for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Martin Tveten at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Scalable change and anomaly detection in cross-correlated data for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Marie K. Foss ved Institutt for teoretisk astrofysikk, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen "Mapping the Teenage Universe with COMAP" for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Kristian Stølevik Olsen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

“Active and passive Brownian particles in complex environments”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Rie Hjørnegaard Malm ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen What is fieldwork for? Exploring Roles of Fieldwork in Higher Education Earth Science for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

M.sc. Karl Jacob Hiden Rudander ved Institutt for teknologisystemer vil forsvare sin avhandling for graden philosophiae doctor:

Underwater Acoustic Communication in the Very High-Frequency Band.

Doctoral candidate Ymir Kalmann Frodason at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Hybrid functional investigations of point defects in ZnO and β-Ga₂O₃"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lucia Crespo Campo at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Investigating the γ decay of Ni isotopes and its applications to nuclear astrophysics"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jian Bin Ben Chen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Instability and Beam-Beam Study for Multi-TeV PWFA e⁺e^- and γγ Linear Colliders"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Liv-Elisif Queseth Kalland at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis   « Ab-initio modelling and experimental study of order-disorder, hydration, and ionic conductivity of fluorite-related oxides » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Alice Petronella Hedenlund at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis Multiplicative Tate Spectral Sequences for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ina Jungersen Andresen at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Genomic- and transcriptomic investigations of the giant green alga Acetabularia acetabulum Resurrecting a forgotten model system to study cell morphogenesis" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Vanja Morisbak at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

         "Searching for new forces of Nature

  New neutral gauge bosons in dimuon final states with                            the ATLAS detector at the LHC"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate James D. Trotter at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis High-performance finite element computations: Performance modelling, optimisation, GPU acceleration & automated code generation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Diana Saplacan  at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Situated Abilities: Understanding Everyday Use of ICTs for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Nina Schuhen ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Statistical post-processing of weather forecast ensembles: obtaining optimal deterministic and probabilistic predictions at multiple time scales for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Volodymyr Levchenko at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Synthesis of Cyclometalated Au (III) Complexes for Catalysis and MOF Functionalization » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctorial Candidate Siri Birkeland at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "Tracing Molecular Patterns of Adaptation in Arctic Brassicaceae - Evolutionary repeatability and adaptations to extreme abiotic stress" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Xinyu Li at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis   «Na-Based Layered Tellurate Na2M2TeO6 (M = Zn, Mg): Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Na+ Ion Diffusion » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jannicke Irina Nesman at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is  defending the thesis "Synthetic, Biosynthetic and Biological Studies of Specialized Pro-resolving Mediators: Novel Leads in Drug Discovery" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

PhD candidate Elise Holter Thompson at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Perineuronal nets in memory processing and behavior" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Knut Tormodssønn Hylland at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Synthesis and Reactivity of Zn Schiff Base Complexes Derived from 2, 2’-diaminobiphenyls » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Dr Philos candidate Eve M. Jourdain at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "Dietary variations and specializations of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in Norway" for the degree of Dr Philos.

Doctoral candidate Marianne Etzelmüller Bathen at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

"Point defects in silicon carbide for quantum technologies: Identification, tuning and control"

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

MSc. Josefine Eilsø Nielsen at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis « Examining the Molecular Mechanism of Antimicrobial Peptides using Neutron and X- ray Scattering Techniques » for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Alexandra Zaputlyaeva ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Fluid geochemistry and migration processes at the Lusi mud eruption, Indonesia for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Sohail Musa Mahmood at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis 

“Exploring Single Event Effects in the ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) SAMPA chip”

for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Ph.d.-kandidat Zachary Scott McGraw ved Institutt for geofag, Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet, vil forsvare avhandlingen Global radiative impacts of aerosol variations through mixed-phase and cirrus clouds for graden Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Amin Shahraki  at the Department of informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Network Management in Internet of Things: From Establishing to Analysing for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Karen Brastad Evensen at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Non-invasive monitoring of the intracranial pressure waveform for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.