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Defences of doctoral theses

The public defences of doctoral theses at Umeå University are always open to the general public.

The notification of the date of the defence of a doctoral thesis takes place at least three weeks in advance by nailing the doctoral thesis on the University's official notice board. This takes place at the University Library

In our calendar, you can read about upcoming doctoral thesis. 

Upcoming defences of doctoral theses

Adam Silumbwe – Public Health
Tue
29
Apr
Adam Silumbwe – Public Health
Time 09:00 - 12:00 29 April 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Alicante, University Hospital Umeå, building 5B, 3 floor

Defence of doctoral thesis. Rolling the wheels of collaboration: Tobacco control policy development and alcohol policy implementation in Zambia.

May

Andreas Brännström, Computing Science
Mon
5
May
Andreas Brännström, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 5 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place HUM.D.220

Defence of doctoral thesis. Formal Methods for Verification in Human-Agent Interaction

Maria Bendtsen Kronkvist – Psychiatry
Fri
9
May
Maria Bendtsen Kronkvist – Psychiatry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 9 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Umeälven, Psychiatry building, point ZA21, University Hosital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. Participation in Care Decisions - Shared decision-making in social psychiatric care

Andreas Berner – Medical Biochemistry
Fri
9
May
Andreas Berner – Medical Biochemistry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 9 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place KBE301 - Small assembly hall

Defence of doctoral thesis. Investigating the Biology and specific Targeting of Individual G-Quadruplex Structures.

Miriam Rutegård - Diagnostic radiology
Fri
9
May
Miriam Rutegård - Diagnostic radiology
Time 13:00 - 17:00 9 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place Betula

Defence of doctoral thesis. Miriam Rutegård is defending her doctoral thesis in diagnostic radiology

Samuel Videholm – Pediatrics
Fri
9
May
Samuel Videholm – Pediatrics
Time 13:00 - 16:00 9 May 13:00 - 16:00
Place Assembly hall Snäckan, Östersund Hospital

Defence of doctoral thesis. Pathways of inequalities in paediatric infectious diseases: Evidence from register-based cohort studies in Sweden.

Elia Astanterabi Swai – Public Health
Thu
22
May
Elia Astanterabi Swai – Public Health
Time 09:00 - 12:00 22 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Alicante, Building 5 B, 3 floor, Umiversity Hospital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. BEING YOUNG AND PHYSICALLY IMPAIRED: Voicing the needs and challenges of children, adolescents, and their carers in northeastern Tanzania.

Mariam Taha. Computing Science
Fri
23
May
Mariam Taha. Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 23 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place NAT.D.360

Defence of doctoral thesis. Problematic Metric Space for Machine Learning: Data and Model Spaces

Fredrik Landfors – cardiology
Fri
23
May
Fredrik Landfors – cardiology
Time 09:00 - 13:00 23 May 09:00 - 13:00
Place Room B NUS Building 1D, 9th floor

Defence of doctoral thesis. DECODING DYSLIPIDEMIA: Human Genetic Studies of Drug Targets in Atherosclerotic Vascular Disease.

Erik Zäll, Experimental Physics
Fri
23
May
Erik Zäll, Experimental Physics
Time 09:00 - 13:00 23 May 09:00 - 13:00
Place KBE301, Lilla hörsalen.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Heating a sustainable future.

Samielle Drake - Economics
Fri
23
May
Samielle Drake - Economics
Time 10:00 - 12:00 23 May 10:00 - 12:00
Place Hörsal UB.A.220 – Lindell 2

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Public Procurement

Ayush Kumar Varshney, Computing Science
Mon
26
May
Ayush Kumar Varshney, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 13:00 26 May 09:00 - 13:00
Place BIO.A.206 - Aula Anatomica.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Model Anonymity and Adaptability.

Ayush Kumar Vashney, Computing Science
Mon
26
May
Ayush Kumar Vashney, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 26 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place BIO.A.206

Defence of doctoral thesis. Navigating Model Anonymity and Adaptability

Signe Lundqvist, Mathematics
Tue
27
May
Signe Lundqvist, Mathematics
Time 13:00 - 17:00 27 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place Hörsal UB.A.220 – Lindellhallen 2.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Does it move? Euclidean and projective rigidity of hypergraphs.

Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Tue
27
May
Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 27 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place MIT.A.121

Defence of doctoral thesis. Dynamic Content-Sensitive Deliberation for Social Simulations: Balancing Scalability and Realism

Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Tue
27
May
Maarten Laurits Jensen, Computing Science
Time 13:00 - 17:00 27 May 13:00 - 17:00
Place MIT.A.121.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Dynamic Context-Sensitive Deliberation for Social Simulations: Balancing Scalability and Realism.

Thomas Gu – Neurology
Fri
30
May
Thomas Gu – Neurology
Time 09:00 - 12:00 30 May 09:00 - 12:00
Place 1 D, T9, Hall B

Defence of doctoral thesis. Carotid Near-Occlusion – Diagnostics, Pathophysiology and Risk of Recurrent Ipsilateral Ischemic Stroke

Lidia Kidane, Computing Science
Fri
30
May
Lidia Kidane, Computing Science
Time 13:15 - 17:00 30 May 13:15 - 17:00
Place MIT.A.121.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Accurate and Low-Overhead Workload Prediction for Cloud Management.

June

Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Mon
2
Jun
Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 12:00 2 June 09:00 - 12:00
Place HUM.D.210

Defence of doctoral thesis. Bridging AI and Privacy: Solutions for High-Dimensional Data and Foundation Models

Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Mon
2
Jun
Sonakshi Garg, Computing Science
Time 09:00 - 14:00 2 June 09:00 - 14:00
Place HUM.D.210.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Bridging AI and Privacy: Solutions for High-dimensional data and foundation models.

Cyrille Bader – Medical biochemistry
Tue
3
Jun
Cyrille Bader – Medical biochemistry
Time 3 June at 09:00 until 3 July at 12:00 3 June at 09:00 until 3 July at 12:00
Place KBE301 - small assembly hall

Defence of doctoral thesis. Molecular guardians? Biochemical studies of tactors involved in mitochondrial DNA maintenance and beyond.

Johanna von Knorring – Professional Development
Thu
5
Jun
Johanna von Knorring – Professional Development
Time 09:00 - 12:00 5 June 09:00 - 12:00
Place Hall Betula

Defence of doctoral thesis. Patients' and Doctors' Experiences of Empathy in the Everyday Life of Healthcare.

Sophia Herndandez – Molecular Biology
Thu
5
Jun
Sophia Herndandez – Molecular Biology
Time 09:00 - 12:00 5 June 09:00 - 12:00
Place Major Groove, Building 6L, NUS/Department of Molecular Biology

Defence of doctoral thesis. Characterisation of exported parasite proteins in Plasmodium berghei blood stages.

Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Thu
5
Jun
Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Time 10:00 - 12:00 5 June 10:00 - 12:00
Place NAT.D.320

Defence of doctoral thesis. Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Contextual Advertising

Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Thu
5
Jun
Emil Häglund, Computing Science
Time 10:00 - 13:00 5 June 10:00 - 13:00
Place NAT.D.320.

Defence of doctoral thesis. Artificial Intelligence in Marketing & Contextual Advertising.

Malin Mickelsson – Medical Biosciences
Thu
5
Jun
Malin Mickelsson – Medical Biosciences
Time 13:00 - 16:00 5 June 13:00 - 16:00
Place Assembly hall Betula, University Hospital, Umeå

Defence of doctoral thesis. Evaluation of potential risk markers associated with subclinical atherosclerosis.

Junhong Li - anathomy
Wed
11
Jun
Junhong Li - anathomy
Time 13:00 - 16:00 11 June 13:00 - 16:00
Place Aula Biologica

Defence of doctoral thesis. The Role of Myoblasts in Healing tendon Tissue

Gianluca Debiasi Anders – Medical Biochemistry
Fri
13
Jun
Gianluca Debiasi Anders – Medical Biochemistry
Time 09:00 - 12:00 13 June 09:00 - 12:00
Place Small assembly hall, KB.E3.01, KBC building

Defence of doctoral thesis. Study of DNA metabolism in the context of Staphylococcal mobile elements.