Dissertations 2025

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: 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: 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: 16 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: 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

June

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: 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