2025

Doctoral candidate Alouette van Hove at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Navigating emission plumes: Inferring sources from drone observations via intelligent path planning for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Marit Stokke Bauck at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Top Basement Landscape Evolution through the Late  Paleozoic and Mesozoic Periods, Norwegian North Sea for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ove Westermoen Haugvaldstad at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Drivers and impacts of windblown dust in a changing climate for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Juan Camilo Meza Cala at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Tectonic and geodynamic evolution of the southwestern Eurasia Basin for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Nora Holden at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis CO2 Storage in the Horda Platform - Fault Analysis and Integrity Assessments for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Thomas Barnes at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Subglacial geomorphology of Norway: ribbed moraines, the bedform continuum and localised geomorphological reconstruction of the Fennoscandian deglaciation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Shobitha Shetty at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Synergy of Earth Observation and Machine Learning for Air Quality Monitoring in Europe for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Ana Anzulović at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Volatile control on kimberlite melt structure, density, and viscosity: Atomistic study with implications for kimberlite volcanism for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Lea Beloša at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Intraplate Volcanism in the Northeast Atlantic and the role of fracture zone-plume interactions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Herman Fæhn Fuglestvedt at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Forcing and impacts of northern high-latitude volcanic eruptions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Yijun Wang at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Texture evolution in subduction models, influenced by anisotropic viscosity: Simple tests, cluster analysis, and numerical implementation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Abhisek Basa at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Multi-Scale Fault Zone Characterization in Sedimentary Rocks: Bridging Outcrop Studies and AI-Driven Seismic Interpretation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Iulia Marginean at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Heat impacts on human health in cities and the role of vulnerability in climate risk. Interdisciplinary research on urban overheating for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Amandine Kaiser at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Exploring stable atmospheric boundary layer regimes: A stochastic perspective for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Jack William Whattam at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Volcanic evolution in continental-rift settings: New constraints from the eruptive and compositional evolution of volcanism in the Oslo Rift for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Federica Ghione at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Comprehensive Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment for Oslo, Norway for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Tómas Zoëga at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis The climate response to high-latitude effusive volcanic eruptions for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Eirik Magnus Gottschalk Ballo at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Reconstructing climate, environmental and societal dynamics in southeastern Norway through the past 2000 years for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Stephen Paul Michalchuk at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Fracturing, fluid-rock interactions, and metamorphism in lower-crustal pseudotachylyte-bearing faults for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate  Anirudha Vijay Mahagaonkar at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Comprehensive Mapping and Climatic Assessment of Supraglacial Lakes in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Doctoral candidate Paiman Shafabakhsh at the Department of Geosciences, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Imaging and Numerical Modeling of Fluid Mixing in Rocks with Evolving Porosity for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.