Dissertations 2025

Recent and upcoming dissertations at the Faculty of Science.

Academic dissertations for the degree of Doctor, nailed to a thesis tree. Photo: Ingmarie Andersson

January

Name: Cis Raf Lagae
Date of the defence: 10 January 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Tredimensionella atmosfärer och spektroskopi för metallfattiga stjärnor

Name: Maddalena Bin
Date of the defence: 20 January 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Investigating Proteins at Cryogenic Temperatures via X-ray Scattering

Name: Aigerim Karina
Date of the defence: 21 January 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: From Ambient to Elevated Pressure: Intrinsic Dynamics in High-Density Amorphous Ices

Name: Anastasia Magoulopoulou
Date of the defence: 24 January 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Dissecting molecular signatures using padlock probes for deciphering pathological states

February

Name: Meri Lähteenaro
Date of the defence: 7 February 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Zoology, Systematics and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Diversity, speciation and evolutionary history of the twisted-winged parasite genus Stylops (Strepsiptera): a genomic approach

Name: Christian Emmel
Date of the defence: 14 February 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Operator models for meromorphic functions of bounded type

Name: Patrycja Swacha
Date of the defence: 14 February 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: From innate immune activation to DNA damage repair: Mechanistic insights into cellular defense pathways

Name: Ioanna Myronidi
Date of the defence: 20 February 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Polytopic membrane protein biogenesis from the perspective of a specialized membrane-localized chaperone

Name: Kanwal Tariq
Date of the defence: 21 February 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Chromatin landscape in transcriptional regulation: a case for ribosomal transcription

Name: Fredrik Grote
Date of the defence: 21 February 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Ab initio molecular dynamics study of metal oxide-water interfaces and development of polarizable force field

Name: Pedro Jesus Tortajada Palmero
Date of the defence: 24 February 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Advances in Sustainable Catalytic Transformations for Organic Synthesis

March

Name: Lorenzo Restaino
Date of the defence: 6 March 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Light-Induced Ultrafast Dynamics in Molecules Probed by Nonlinear X-ray Spectroscopic Techniques

Name: Björn Linder
Date of the defence: 7 March 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Middle atmosphere dynamics, from satellite preparation to in orbit observation

Name: Romain Figuière
Date of the defence: 7 March 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Do we need to use hazardous chemicals in society? The implementation of the "essential-use" concept

Name: José Eduardo Navarro Navarrete
Date of the defence: 7 March 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Laser probing isolated ions – Cooling dynamics and electron affinities

Name: Jany Quintana Cordero
Date of the defence: 14 March 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Safeguarding proteostasis by a dedicated chaperone at the ribosome

Name: Christoffer Mattsson Langseth
Date of the defence: 14 March 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry towards Bioinformatics
Title of the thesis: Cells in time and space: Beyond comprehensive cellular atlases towards a deeper understanding of disease

Name: Nora Bergfeldt Broms
Date of the defence: 21 March 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Zoology, Systematics and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Metagenomic analysis for detection of pathogenic microorganisms in prehistoric human populations

Name: Vasileios Fragkos
Date of the defence: 21 March 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: Laser probing isolated ions – Cooling dynamics and electron affinities

Name: Talles Bruno Oliveira Dos Anjos
Date of the defence: 21 March 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Mechanistic Understanding of Algae Sensitivity to Mixtures of Chemical Pollutants

Name: Aswathy Kallazhi
Date of the defence: 28 March 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Mechanisms, regulation and cellular roles of Lon proteases in bacterial pathogenicity and stress responses

Name: Tautvydas Kireilis
Date of the defence: 28 March 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Synthesis and application of enantioenriched alpha-trifluoromethyl boronates

Name: Josefin Engelhardt
Date of the defence: 28 March 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Exposure to chemical mixtures and associated health risks - with a focus on endocrine disruption and the Swedish population

Name: Joost Dalmijn
Date of the defence: 28 March 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Emissions of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by fluoropolymer production plants

April

Name: Clàudia Arasa Cuartiella
Date of the defence: 4 April 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Immune modulation/activation by staphylococcal enterotoxins

Name: Sambit Kumar Das
Date of the defence: 11 April 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Molecular Transients in Photoactive Heterocyclic Systems

Name: Dominic Heslin-Rees
Date of the defence: 11 April 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Understanding the long-term trends and seasonality of the Arctic atmospheric aerosol

Name: Adam Johansson Andrews
Date of the defence: 11 April 2025, at 13:15
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Field-Level Inference of Primordial Non-Gaussianity: A Bayesian Hierarchical Approach to Inferring Primordial Physics in the Large Scale Structure

Name: Kasturie Jatkar
Date of the defence: 15 April 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Phase-corrected time-domain terahertz spectroscopy in reflection geometry

Name: Tzu-Hao Huang
Date of the defence: 16 April 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geochemistry
Title of the thesis: Decoding Marine Silicate Alteration: A Case Study in the Ulleung Basin (East/Japan Sea)

Name: Akash Khansili
Date of the defence: 25 April 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Experimental investigation of heavy fermion quantum criticality

Name: Pilar López Hernández
Date of the defence: 25 April 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Spread and evolution of antimicrobial resistance in natural bacterial populations and communities

Name: Paulina Nordfeldt
Date of the defence: 29 April 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geology
Title of the thesis: The Åkulla Volcanic-Hosted Au-Te Deposit, Skellefte District, Sweden

May

Name: Joannes Peters
Date of the defence: 2 May 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Modelling Organometallic Catalysis and Reactions in Cavitands

Name: Ezra Eisbrenner
Date of the defence: 5 May 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: Marine Heatwaves – Impacts and Drivers

Name: Olga Falowska-Pietrzak
Date of the defence: 7 May 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Finding light in chaos:characterization of the stray radiation field at EuXFEL undulator systems

Name: Mélanie Lauria
Date of the defence: 8 May 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Emerging analytical tools and strategies for PFAS discovery

Name: Sofia Appelgren
Date of the defence: 9 May 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: How to insert an iron; FeB insertion into nitric oxide reductase

Name: Agnes Åhl
Date of the defence: 9 May 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Moisture-Modulated Modifications of Nanocellulose Materials: From Atomic Vibrations to Hierarchical Structures

Name: Kanglei Pang
Date of the defence: 14 May 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Materials Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Controllable Synthesis and In Situ Characterization of Semimetal Single-Atom and Cluster Catalysts for Electrochemical Energy-Conversion

Name: Jiaoyan Xu
Date of the defence: 16 May 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Structure determination of beam-sensitive materials by three-dimensional electron diffraction

Name: Ivar Westerberg
Date of the defence: 16 May 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
Title of the thesis: The evolutionary interplay between transposable elements and genome defense in filamentous fungi

Name: Aram Ismail
Date of the defence: 19 May 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: A study of Pi- and Alpha-class glutathione transferases. Characterization and protein redesign

Name: Axel Ljungström
Date of the defence: 21 May 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Synthetic approaches to homology, cohomology and homotopy

Name: Laura C. Pacoste
Date of the defence: 23 February 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Developing electron diffraction methods to probe oxidation states in metalloenzymes

Name: Sergi Arias Garcia
Date of the defence: 23 May 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Endpoint estimates for bilinear operators

Name: Nils Hemmingsson
Date of the defence: 26 May 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Complex multivalued maps & their invariant sets

Name: David Sundelin
Date of the defence: 27 May 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Chemical Physics
Title of the thesis: Isomers of ions in space and planetary atmospheres:Experimental and theoretical studies

June

Name: Mauricio Roza
Date of the defence: 3 June 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Toxicogenomic effects of pesticides: Epigenetic and transgenerational consequences of developmental pesticide exposure in Xenopus tropicalis

Name: Neha Kondedan
Date of the defence: 4 June 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Miniaturized calorimeters for high pressure, strong magnetic field, and low temperature conditions

Name: Tim Åström
Date of the defence: 4 June 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Analytical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Towards safe and sustainable fashion - screening methodologies to detect health hazardous chemicals in textiles and textile processing

Name: Timmy Ejdetjärn
Date of the defence: 4 June 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
Title of the thesis: Understanding the formation and evolution of disc galaxies and mergers through numerical simulations

Name: Matilda Pembury-Smith
Date of the defence: 5 June 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal Ecology
Title of the thesis: The impact of biotic interactions and abiotic stressors on reproductive traits

Name: Felicity Pike
Date of the defence: 5 June 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Gender in marine protected areas: Implications for conservation and sustainable development in a changing ocean

Name: Tianshuo Xu
Date of the defence: 5 June 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Botany
Research subject: Marine Biology
Title of the thesis: Structure and dynamics of the zooplankton symbiotic microbiome

Name: Suthawan Muangmeesri
Date of the defence: 9 June 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Catalytic Fractionation for Sustainable Biomass Valorization and Circular Polymer Recycling

Name: Surabhi Kokane
Date of the defence: 11 June 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Ion selectivity and allosteric regulation of Na+(K+)/H+ exchangers

Name: Lukas Rødland
Date of the defence: 12 June 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
Title of the thesis: Topology in Non-Hermitian systems

Name: Dongwon Kim
Date of the defence: 13 June 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Precision & Discovery: Top quark and Higgs physics at the ATLAS experiment

Name: Mateusz Janczak
Date of the defence: 13 June 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Terminal oxidases of bacterial electron transport chains: exploring the diversity of cytochrome bd oxidases

Name: Sonja Gindorf
Date of the defence: 13 June 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Enviornmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
Title of the thesis: Methylmercury Dynamics along the Land-to-Sea Aquatic Continuum

Name: Ingo Müller
Date of the defence: 13 June 2025, at 13:00
Department: Zoologiska institutionen
Research subject: Zoology, Systematics and Evolution
Title of the thesis: Speciation dynamics of New Guinean birds using large scale museomics

Name: Shihui Feng
Date of the defence: 13 June 2025, at 14:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Inorganic Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Development and application of 3D electron-based pair distribution function for structural analysis

August - September

Name: Bernadette Davies
Date of the defence: 18 August 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
Title of the thesis: Operando studies of chemical conversions at heterogenous catalytic interfaces

Name: Morteza Aslanzadeh
Date of the defence: 25 August 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Exploring non-coding RNA biology: from gene regulation to evolutionary features

Name: Alexander Petri
Date of the defence: 27 August 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Computational methods for long-read sequencing data analysis

Name: John Martin Taylor
Date of the defence: 10 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecotoxicology
Title of the thesis: Growth and contaminant burden in herring during environmental change

Name: Katharina Schneider
Date of the defence: 5 September 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal Ecology
Title of the thesis: Mechanisms underlying host plant adaptations in the polyphagous comma butterfly

Name: Kenny Lidberg
Date of the defence: 5 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Neisseria meningitidis host colonization and the interplay between pathogen, epithelial cells, and commensal lactobacilli

Name: Fanny Bergström
Date of the defence: 12 September 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Computational methods for epidemic modelling

Name: Sukkyeong Jung
Date of the defence: 12 September 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of Na+/H+ exchangers

Name: Guadalupe Sepúlveda
Date of the defence: 12 September 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Functional morphology
Title of the thesis: The effect of temperature on bumblebee physiology, sensing and behavior

Name: André Löfgren
Date of the defence: 12 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Computational Mathematics
Title of the thesis: Numerical stability of the free-surface problem arising in ice-sheet modeling

Name: Marion Mallweger
Date of the defence: 18 September 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
Title of the thesis: Simulating Vibronic Dynamics with Trapped Rydberg Ions

Name: Hyunho Kim
Date of the defence: 22 September 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry
Title of the thesis: Exploring Energy Conversion Mechanisms in Respiratory Enzymes

Name: Thomas Hocking
Date of the defence: 22 September 2025, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography
Title of the thesis: The Earth's energy imbalance - perspectives from synthetic satellites and artificial clouds

Name: Marlou Klein Hazebroek
Date of the defence: 22 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: UCP1 (in)dependent cellular mechanisms enhancing white adipose tissue metabolism and their impact on obesity prevention

Name: Muhammad Hamza Bokhari
Date of the defence: 23 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
Title of the thesis: Targeted modulation of beta adrenergic receptors for the development of next generation therapeutics for metabolic disease

Name: Anne Charlotte Bunge
Date of the defence: 26 September 2025, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre SRC
Research subject: Sustainability Science
Title of the thesis: Innovating for sustainable diets

October-November

Name: Laura Schat
Date of the defence: 24 October 2025, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Plant Systematics
Title of the thesis: Jack of all traits or master of some? Evolutionary pathways to trait diversity and specialisation in grasses.

Name: Tirza Maria Weitkamp
Date of the defence: 7 November 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Marine Geology
Title of the thesis: Planktonic Foraminifera in a Cooling Climate: The Evolution and Ecology of Neogloboquadrina from the North Atlantic to the Arctic

Name: Xiankun Li
Date of the defence: 21 November 2025, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
Title of the thesis: Understanding Rewetting Respiration Pulses: From Lab-Based Microbial Mechanisms to Field-Scale Ecological Patterns

December

Name: Simone Seminara
Date of the defence: 3 December 2025, at 09:30
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geology
Title of the thesis: Formation and tectonic evolution of the Yukon-Koyukuk basin, Alaska

Last updated: June 30, 2025

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