Dissertations 2026

January - February

January

Name: Panagiotis-Ioannis Zervakis
Date of the defence: 20 January 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Supergenes and mating system evolution in plants

Name: Kinlan Jan
Date of the defence: 23 January 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Marine Biology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Exploring trophic transfer through the lens of plankton–fish interactions in a dynamic Baltic Sea

Name: Noah Hensen
Date of the defence: 30 January 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: All About Bias. Researching adaptation and genome composition in filamentous fungi

February

Name: Anamaria Gkini
Date of the defence: 2 February 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Probing Superluminous Supernovae with X-shooter Spectroscopy: Identifying pre-explosion eruptions and investigating spectral diversity

Name: Razmik Hovhannisyan
Date of the defence: 3 February 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Phase Retrieval in Superconducting Josephson Junctions: From Algorithms to Magnetic Sensing Applications

Name: Jaewon Lee
Date of the defence: 4 February 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Temporal correlations, non-Gaussianity and imaging using quantum emitters

Namn: Roja Rahmani
Date of the defence: 20 February 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Atomistic mechanisms and predictive modeling of biomolecular adsorption on nanomaterial surfaces

Name: Erik Schwarz
Date of the defence: 27 February 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Microbial ecology in soil carbon models

March - April

March

Name: Isabella Badolati
Date of the defence: 6 March 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Deciphering immune, microbial and metabolic signatures in allergy and asthma

Name: Andi Bodnariu
Date of the defence: 6 March 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematical Statistics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Stochastic optimal control and stopping, games and time inconsistency

Name: Agnes Pranindita
Date of the defence: 6 March 2026, at 14:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Moisture recycling in context: integrative forests-agriculture lens for governing atmospheric water flows

Name: Alexandru Postole
Date of the defence: 13 March 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Organocatalyzed stereospecific isomerization of allylic and propargylic compounds

Name: Sophie ten Hietbrink
Date of the defence: 25 March 2026, at 13.00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geochemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The Arctic’s Subsurface Waterworld- Submarine groundwater flows and their link to cryosphere dynamics

May - June

May

Name: Robert Dunst
Date of the defence: 4 May 2026, at 14:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The mobility of metals during hydrothermal alteration in the Bergslagen ore province, Sweden

June

Name: Mary Scheuermann
Date of the defence: 4 June 2026, at 09:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Legumes and levers: Components of change in rebalancing diets to support human and planetary health

Name: Carolin Seiferth
Date of the defence: 5 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: From design to evaluation: unpacking knowledge co-production processes