Dissertations 2024

January

Name: Oskar Nyberg
Date of the defence: 19 January 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecotoxicology
Title of the thesis: Protecting food with poison - ecotoxicity of agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals

Name: Aditi Shenoy
Date of the defence: 26 January 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry towards Bioinformatics
Title of the thesis: Deep learning for protein analysis

Name: Sara Boscolo Bibi
Date of the defence: 26 January 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physic
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Going for gold. A spectroelectrochemical and catalytic study of gold nanomaterials.

Name: Urška Rovšnik
Date of the defence: 31 January 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Structural transitions of proton-gated ion channels>

February

Name: Eva Larsén
Date of the defence: 2 February 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Plant Systematics
Title of the thesis: Phylogeny and macroevolution in Isoetes (Isoetales)

Name: Hannah Watts
Date of the defence: 2 February 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Near-surface geophysics as a tool in glacial process interpretation

Name: Andreas Carlström
Date of the defence: 2 February 2024, at 14:30
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Interconnectivity of mitochondrial protein synthesis and assembly

Name: Jinrong Liu
Date of the defence: 9 February 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Lignin nanoparticles for photonic crystals and photothermal films

Name: Flora Borchert
Date of the defence: 16 February 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Managing chemical risks in the EU: Data use and new approaches for decision-making

Name: Kathrin Finke
Date of the defence: 16 February 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Northern Hemispheric cold spells and their tropospheric-stratospheric link

Name: Frédéric Héralys
Date of the defence: 16 February 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Stimuli-Responsive Materials Derived from Cellulose Nanofibrils: Synthesis, characterization, and performance evaluation

March

Name: Sadaf Saeedi Garakani
Date of the defence: 1 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Heteroatom-doped porous carbon materials derived from poly(ionic Liquid)s and their composites for battery and catalytic applications

Name: Shiqi Zhou
Date of the defence: 6 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Multiscale interfacial engineering of heterogeneous electrocatalysts: from structural design to mechanistic study

Name: Radwa Almamoun
Date of the defence: 8 March 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Toxicological studies of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP): Impact on the reproductive system and gut microbiota

Name: Daria Lebedeva
Date of the defence: 8 March 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Organic Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Valorization of Waste Stream Lignocellulosic Feedstocks

Name: Daniela Guasconi
Date of the defence: 8 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: The hidden half of the meadow- Interactions between drought, soil carbon, roots and soil microbial communities

Name: Naemi Florin
Date of the defence: 19 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Cosmic Molecules and Clusters: Knockout driven reactions

Name: Priya Abhay Gohel
Date of the defence: 22 March 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Drosophila POU/Oct factor Nubbin: a multifaceted protein

Name: Michael Coates
Date of the defence: 26 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Fundamental interactions in organometallic reactions

Name: Matti Jansson
Date of the defence: 27 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Improvements for IceCube Geometry Calibration and Muon Photon Distribution

Name: Arne Tobian
Date of the defence: 28 March 2024, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
Title of the thesis: Planetary Boundary Interactions: Assessing a dynamic risk space through process-based quantifications

April

Name: Maganizo Kruger Nyazulu
Date of the defence: 3 April 2024, at 09:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
Title of the thesis: A triply Green Revolution for Africa - Building water resilience to attain the SDGs on food and poverty

Name: Hanna Dort
Date of the defence: 5 April 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Population Genetics
Title of the thesis: Exploring the role of gene duplications in plant-insect interactions

Name: Seyed Ehsan Hadi
Date of the defence: 12 April 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Colloidal Processing and Alignment of Wood-Based Dispersions and Hybrid Functional Foams

Name: Henning Zakrisson
Date of the defence: 12 April 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematical Statistics
Title of the thesis: Tree-based machine learning methods with non-life insurance applications

Name: Mats Ittonen
Date of the defence: 12 April 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal Ecology
Title of the thesis: Life history evolution during a climate-driven butterfly range expansion

Name: Gaspard Alexandre Geoffroy
Date of the defence: 22 April 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Spiritum sidus. The star of our life – On internal tides in the ocean

Name: Irena Koelemeijer
Date of the defence: 26 April 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ekologi och evolution
Title of the thesis: Effects of drought on boreal forest understory species

Name: Dave Karlsson
Date of the defence: 26 April 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning
Title of the thesis: Charting Insect Diversity

Name: Diana Kättström
Date of the defence: 29 April 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Inconsistencies and missing links in the EU chemicals regulation

Name: Christian Setzer
Date of the defence: 30 April 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Modelling and Detecting Kilonovae in the Rubin Observatory Era

May

Name: Malin Larm
Date of the defence: 2 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal Ecology
Title of the thesis: Mutual relationship between tourism and arctic foxes

Name: Mikhail Ivanov
Date of the defence: 3 May 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Development of large scale molecular and nanomaterial models

Name: Petter Hällberg 
Date of the defence: 3 May 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geochemistry
Title of the thesis: Paleoclimate and seasonality on the Maritime Continent during the Late Glacial and Holocene: biomarkers and climate model simulations

Name: David Åhlén
Date of the defence: 3 May 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Terrestrial arthropod community responses from constructed wetland properties and management

Name: Carina Schiele
Date of the defence: 15 May 2024, at 15:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: MultiFunctional Foams Based on Nanomaterials from Plants and Textile Waste

Name: Aliki Litsa
Date of the defence: 16 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: Why "nothing" matters: A tale of vacua in the early Universe

Name: Sylwia Krol
Date of the defence: 17 May 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Structure and function of mycobacterial respiratory supercomplexes

Name: Fernando Redivo Cardoso
Date of the defence: 20 May 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Platforms for quantum information and technology

Name: Stefan Reppen
Date of the defence: 22 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Hasse invariants on Shimura varieties and moduli of G-bundles

Name: Johanna Sörngård
Date of the defence: 22 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: Attosecond information encoded in the photoemission angle

Name: Simon Cooper
Date of the defence: 23 May 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Intersection theory on Shimura varieties in positive characteristic

Name: Aiden Jönsson
Date of the defence: 23 May 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Spiritum sidus. Clouds and Earth’s hemispheric albedo symmetry - How do clouds affect hemispheric contrasts in heat and energy flows?

Name: Irina Terekhina
Date of the defence: 24 May 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Inorganic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Improving the glycerol electrooxidation selectivity on nanoelectrocatalysts

Name: Elisie Kåresdotter
Date of the defence: 24 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Changing Waters: Human-driven and Climate-driven Change Effects on Water Conflicts and Cooperation

Name: Simon Ringqvist
Date of the defence: 27 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Unveiling the Accretion Process at Planetary Masses

Name: Ana Sagues Carracedo
Date of the defence: 30 May 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Kilonovae and Gravitational Lensed Supernovae in Optical Surveys

Name: Fredrik Kalholm
Date of the defence: 31 May 2024, at 08.00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Medical Radiation Physics
Title of the thesis: Averaged linear energy transfer and other beam quality descriptors in relation to proton relative biological effectiveness

Name: Alejandro Rodríguez Gijón
Date of the defence: 31 May 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Comparative genomics to investigate the ecological meaning of genome size in aquatic prokaryotes

Name: Sergio Marco Salas
Date of the defence: 31 May 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry towards Bioinformatics
Title of the thesis: From pixels to comprehensive cellular atlases

Name: Alexandre Adler
Date of the defence: 31 May 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Optical systematics in future cosmic microwave background experiments

Name: Sunniva Jacobsen
Date of the defence: 3 June 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: Probes of New Physics – Signatures of new particles in extreme objects and ground-based experiments

Name: Yutong He
Date of the defence: 4 June 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Cosmological gravitational waves and their interaction with large-scale magnetic fields

Name: Gayathri Viswanath
Date of the defence: 5 June 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: A Window into the cradle of planets: Direct detection and characterisation of young sub-stellar objects using high-contrast tools

Name: Mohammad Morsali
Date of the defence: 5 June 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Site-specific reactions of softwood kraft lignin for biobased vitrimers and reactive colloidal particles

Name: Josefine Axelsson
Date of the defence: 5 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Proxy records to climate model simulations - Insights from tropical regions on shortcomings, benefits, and ways of exploring synchronicity

Name: Eleftherios Theodosiadis
Date of the defence: 7 June 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Geometry of multi-slit Loewner chains and semigroups of finite shift

Name: Pueh Leng Tan
Date of the defence: 7 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Solar Reflected Dark Matter with XENONnT

Name: Josefien Kuijper
Date of the defence: 10 June 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: It's hip to be square: Quadrilateral diagrams in geometry and K-theory

Name: Hari Nair
Date of the defence: 10 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Absorption enhancement of black carbon aerosols and the aerosol-induced masking effect on warming over South Asia

Name: Konstantina Dachlythra
Date of the defence: 11 June 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Optical calibration and systematics for current and future cosmic microwave background experiments

Name: Dongni Zhang
Date of the defence: 12 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematical Statistics
Title of the thesis: Stochastic epidemic models with contact tracing

Name: Robin Stoll
Date of the defence: 13 June 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Relative self-equivalences and graph complexes

Name: Louis Hainaut
Date of the defence: 14 June 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Configuration spaces on a bouquet of spheres and related moduli spaces

Name: Emmy Wassénius
Date of the defence: 14 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
Title of the thesis: Sustainability risks: A social-ecological systems perspective

Name: Ivelin Georgiev
Date of the defence: 14 June 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Combining the probes from the Epoch of Reionization

Name: Vahid Saadattalab
Date of the defence: 14 June 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: From blue hydrochars to activated carbons: hydrothermal carbonization, chemical activation, and gas adsorption

August

Name: Elena Farahbakhsh Touli
Date of the defence: 22 August 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Graphical Models: Mathematical Foundation and Statistical Analysis

Name: Vaishnovi Sekar
Date of the defence: 23 August 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: microRNA biogenesis and function in single cells

Name: Johan Hörnquist
Date of the defence: 23 August 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: A unified model of reactive scattering processes – Application to the H2 reaction complex

Name: Alice Schmidt-May
Date of the defence: 30 August 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: State-Resolved Mutual Neutralisation Experiments on Atomic Hydrogen

September

Name: Fei Wu
Date of the defence: 6 September 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Exploring Membrane Proteins within the Inner Mitochondrial and Endoplasmic Reticulum Membranes: Mitochondrial respiratory complexes and ER-localized Shr3

Name: Vilhelm Niklasson
Date of the defence: 6 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematical Statistics
Title of the thesis: Topics in discrete-time portfolio theory

Name: Josefine Carlsson
Date of the defence: 13 September 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Analytical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Is your wardrobe making you sick? Textile Chemicals with Focus on Skin Sensitizers – Analytical Methods, Occurrence and Dermal Exposure

Name: Busra Tas Kiper
Date of the defence: 13 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Contemporary developments and applications of unsupervised machine learning methods; Clustering analysis, Clustering validation, Fuzzy clustering, Time series analysis, Graph-based methods

Name: Maria-Ximena Ruiz-Caldas
Date of the defence: 19 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Discarded Textiles as an Underexplored Source of Cellulose Nanomaterials: Processing Routes, Properties, and Applications in Lightweight Materials

Name: Hower Hao Zhe Lee
Date of the defence: 20 September 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Next Generation In Situ Sequencing (NGISS)

Name: Maximilian Pöverlein
Date of the defence: 23 September 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biophysics
Title of the thesis: Computational Multi-Scale Simulations of Biological Energy Catalysis

Name: Nausica Aldeghi
Date of the defence: 24 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of Laplacians and Schrödinger operators with mixed boundary conditions

Name: Tobias Grøsfjeld
Date of the defence: 25 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: The art of bad art: Diagrammatics in mathematical physics

Name: Diana Khananisho
Date of the defence: 25 September 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: New genetic modules for protein production in microbial cell factories.

Name: Vu Duc Ha Phan
Date of the defence: 26 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Organic Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Catalytic Valorization of CO₂ for the Synthesis of Organic Compounds.

Name: Eleonor Ryberg
Date of the defence: 27 September 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Marine Geology
Title of the thesis: Temporal and spatial scale changes in species distributions in boreal peatlands – an exploration of factors driving Holocene species changes

Name: Isabelle John
Date of the defence: 27 September 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: How the Positron Became Cool - A Study of Cosmic-Ray Positrons from Pulsars and Dark Matter

Name: Joy Ngozi Onwumere
Date of the defence: 27 September 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Inorganic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Utveckling av fotoaktiva material of effektivt avlägsnande av vattenoforeningar

Name: Tom Ingebretsen Carlson
Date of the defence: 27 September 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Di-Higgs and Effective Field Theory interpretations with the ATLAS detector

Name: Eleonor Ryberg
Date of the defence: 27 September 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Marine Geology
Title of the thesis: Temporal and spatial scale changes in species distributions in boreal peatlands – an exploration of factors driving Holocene species changes

Name: Jack Mallinson
Date of the defence: 30 September 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Titanium abundances in late-type stars: 3D and non-LTE effects

Name: Amina Souihi
Date of the defence: 4 October 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry
Research subject: Analytical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Machine learning for detection and identification of emerging contaminants with non-target LC/HRMS

Name: Max Zeuner
Date of the defence: 4 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Univalent Constructive Algebraic Geometry: Foundations and Formalizations

Name: Daniel Riepl
Date of the defence: 4 October 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biophysics
Title of the thesis: Molecular mechanism of membrane-bound energy transduction

Name: Friederike Allgöwer
Date of the defence: 7 October 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biophysics
Title of the thesis: Mechanism of Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Energy Conversion

Name: Michela Ciccarelli
Date of the defence: 11 October 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Misfolded proteins control the activity of Heat Shock factor 1 (HSF1)

Name: Deepika Venkattu
Date of the defence: 11 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Supernovae with LOFAR: Exploring the transient radio Universe at low frequencies

Name: Filip Thörn
Date of the defence: 11 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Zoology, Systematics and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Hybridisation in Birds-of-paradise (Aves:Paradisaeidae) - a museomics approach

Name: Ylva Johansson
Date of the defence: 18 October 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Neurokemi med molekylär neurobiologi
Title of the thesis: In vitro och in silico approach methods for developmental toxicity assessment

Name: Jacopo Cantoni
Date of the defence: 18 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Active and legacy source contributions to observed water quality: A data-driven approach to their distinction across spatiotemporal scales

Name: Yueqing An
Date of the defence: 18 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Gut microbes and fecal strings of Galerucella leaf beetles: Dynamics and transfer of gut microbiome and herbivore- microbe-plant interactions

Name: Lucílio dos Santos Matias
Date of the defence: 25 October 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Medical Radiation Physics
Title of the thesis: Optimization of brachytherapy treatment planning and radiation field studies in the vicinity of the Leksell Gamma Knife with shielding implications

Name: Annika Boussard
Date of the defence: 25 October 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Ethology
Title of the thesis: Brain morphology, cognition and collective behaviour in the guppy (Poecilia reticulata)

Name: Run Tian
Date of the defence: 29 October 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Biodegradation of organic chemicals in the aquatic environment

Name: Heather Wood
Date of the defence: 1 November 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Patterns and drivers of Boreal bat populations. Using a multi-method approach to study the impact of land-use and climate

Name: Johan Wikström
Date of the defence: 8 November 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ekotoxikologi
Title of the thesis: Immobilizing Multiple Sediment Contaminants with a Dual-Sorbent Thin-Layer Cap

Name: Mathias Poline
Date of the defence: 8 November 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Mutual neutralisation reactions in planetary atmospheres and industrial plasmas

Name: Roger Cattaneo
Date of the defence: 15 November 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Coherent Generation and Detection of THz Radiation via Arrays of Josephson Junctions

Name: Tanvi Somiah
Date of the defence: 29 November 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Studies of interaction between Helicobacter pylori, lactobacilli, and the human host

Name: Julia Wagner
Date of the defence: 29 November 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Arctic lowland tundra under change - Mapping of ice wedge polygons, soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks on multiple scales

Name: Sepideh Kianfar
Date of the defence: 5 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Fine dynamic features in the lower solar atmosphere

Name: Kalliroi Sdougkou
Date of the defence: 12 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Development and Application of Analytical Workflows for Targeted and Untargeted Studies of the Chemical Exposome in Human Blood

Name: Kyra Spaan
Date of the defence: 13 December 2024, at 09:30
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Characterizing the organohalogen iceberg

Name: Alejandro Rodríguez Gijón
Date of the defence: 13 December 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Does genome size matter? Comparative (meta)genomics to investigate the ecological meaning of genome size in aquatic prokaryotes

Name: Jonathan Wiskandt
Date of the defence: 13 December 2024, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Modelling ice shelf-ocean interactions in Greenlandic fjords

Name: Kajsa Resare Sahlin
Date of the defence: 13 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
Title of the thesis: The ’Less but Better’ Pathway to Sustainable Meat Futures

Name: Denise Strand 
Date of the defence: 13 December 2024, at 13:30
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Personalized Toxicology: Investigating Interindividual Differences in Reconstructed Chemical Mixtures on Endocrine Disruption

Name: Ville Häger
Date of the defence: 17 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Medical Radiation Physics
Title of the thesis: A Novel Approach for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Accounting for High-Grade Glioma Invasiveness into Normal Tissue

Name: Nadia Flodgren
Date of the defence: 18 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: An algebraic approach to the large N renormalization group flow of φ4-theory

Name: Erik Reinhold Samuelsson
Date of the defence: 18 December 2024, at 13:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: The Definition and Applications of Transcriptomic States in Cancer

Name: Filippo Schiavo
Date of the defence: 19 December 2024, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Medical Radiation Physics
Title of the thesis: The virtual tumour - in silico modelling of tumour vasculature, oxygenation and treatment outcome

Name: Davide Buzzao
Date of the defence: 20 December 2024, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry towards Bioinformatics
Title of the thesis: From multi-omics data to global association networks. Application to disease module finding and pathway analysis