Public defence of doctoral thesis at Linköping University

Olle Vidner, at the Division of Product Realisation, Department of Engineering and Management defends his licentiate thesis entitled "On multi-disciplinary optimization in product configuration". Supervisor is Johan Ölvander, professor, Linköping University. Opponent is assistant professor, Johan Wall, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. The event is open to the public. Language: English.

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Susanne Bauer, at the Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences (BKV), defends her doctoral thesis with the title "Cell type-specific translatome analysis of mouse models of three genetic neurodegenerative diseases". Opponent is Johan Jakobsson, Lund University. The defense takes place in Berzeliussalen, Campus US, Linköping. For questions, contact supervisor Walker Jackson.

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Claudia Schnitter, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends her PhD thesis titled "Epitaxial Thin Films of Group 4 Transition Metal Diborides". Opponent: Professor Paul Mayrhofer, TU Wien

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Rebecka Pestoff, at Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV),  defends her thesis entitled "Improving Access and Quality of Genetic Counselling in Clinical Care in Sweden: The Value of eHealth Solutions and a Validated Outcome Measure". Opponent is Professor Cathrine Bjørvatn, Universitetet i Bergen, Norge. Language: Swedish. Contact Kerstin Svensson to get link to zoom.

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Denise Uwamariya defends her doctoral thesis entitled "Large deviations of condition numbers and extremal eigenvalues of random matrices".  Opponent is Filip Lindskog, Professor, Stockholm University.

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Mary Catherine Osman at the division Logistics and Quality Management, Department of Management and Engineering defends her licentiate thesis entitled "Green Logistics Networks: Roles & Symbiotic Relationships". Supervisor is Professor Maria Huge-Brodin, Linköping University. Opponent is Professor Arni Hallordsson, Technical University of Chalmers. The event is open to the public. Language: English.

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Alachew Mengist, at the Dept of Computer and Information Science (IDA), defends his thesis entitled "Model-Based Tool Integration and Ontology-Driven Traceability in Model-Based Development Environments". Main supervisor: Adrian Pop, Docent, IDA. Opponent: Juan Llorens, Professor, Universidad Carlos II de Madrid, Spain. Chairman of the event: Nahid Shahmehri, Professor Emerita, IDA. The event is public and held in English. 

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Frida Svanholm, at Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV), defends her thesis entitled ”Work Interventions in the Context of Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation". Supervisor is Professor Mathilda Björk, at HMV/LiU. Opponent is Docent Anncristine Fjellman-Wiklund, Umeå University.

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Johannes Salomonsson, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends his doctoral thesis ”Structural, Dynamic and Functional Studies of USP14: A Proteasome-Associated Deubiquitinating Enzyme Regulating Protein Degradation”. Opponent: Pau Bernado, Research director INSERM.

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Ludvig Knöös Franzén at the Division of Fluid and Mechatronic Systems, Department of Management and Engineering defends his doctoral thesis entitled "System of Systems View in Early Product Development - An Ontology-Based Approach". Supervisor is är Christopher Jouannet, LiU. Opponent is Professor Daniel DeLaurentis, Purdue University, USA. The event is open to the public and will be streamed via Zoom: https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/63789827277. Language: English.  

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Camilla Vavruch, at Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences (HMV), defends her thesis entitled ”Leptin and the Intersection of Cardiovascular Disease, Metabolism, and Adipose Tissue”. Supervisor is Professor Fredrik Nyström, at HMV/LiU. Opponent is Adjunct Professor Kristina Boström, University of Gothenburg. Language: Swedish

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Kwalombota Ilwale defends his doctoral thesis entitled "Noncommutative Riemannian Geometry of Twisted Derivations". Opponent is Sergei Silvestrov, Professor, Mälardalen University.

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Christina Alexandrou, at Department of Health, Medicine, and Caring Sciences, defends her thesis entitled ”MINISTOP 2.0: a smartphone app integrated in primary child health care to promote healthy diet and physical activity behaviors and prevent obesity in preschool-aged children”. Supervisor is Professor Marie Löf, LiU. Opponent is Professor Nina Cecilie Øverby, University of Agder. Language: English. Mingle: Rönnen, Campus US

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Hannah Pelikan, at the Department of Culture and Society, defends her thesis entitled ”Robot Sound in Interaction: Analyzing and Designing Sound for Human-Robot Coordination”. Opponent is Christian Licoppe, Professor, Télécom ParisTech, France. The defence is held in English.

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Stefane Saize defends his doctoral thesis entitled "Contributions to reciprocal processes". Opponent is Timo Koski, Professor, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Main supervisor is Xiangfeng Yang and assistant supervisor is Torkel Erhardsson. The defence will be in English.

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Elias Ingebrand, at the Department of Culture and Society, defends his thesis entitled "Dementia and learning: The use of tablet computers in joint activities". Opponent is Ray Wilkinson, Professor, Sheffield University, UK. The defence is open to all. It is held in English.

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Sjoerd Stendahl, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends his doctoral thesis titled "Multilayer neutron optics based on isotope-enriched 11B4C". Opponent: Artur Glavic, PSI Switzerland.

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Rosalia Delgado Carrascon, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends her PhD thesis "Epitaxy of group III-nitride materials using different nucleation schemes". Opponent: Alice Hospodková, Institue of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

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Camilo Castillo Estupiñan at the Department of Thematic Studies defends the thesis "Reconfiguring the Ontological Politics of Conservation: an Ethnography of Scientists and Campesinos in the Andean Páramos" Opponent: Professor Brit Ross Winthereik, IT University, Köpenhamn, Danmark.

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Stephanie Cordova at Division Environmental Technology and Management, Department of Management and Engineering defends her thesis entitled "C02 utilization from biomethane production: potential and assessment of alternatives!" Supervisor is Professor Mats Eklund, Linköping University. Opponent is Valentina Bisinella, Technical University of Denmark. The event i open to the public. Language: English.

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Jian Zhuo, at department of Electical Engineering (ISY), defends his licentiate thesis: "Interaction and Uncertainty-Aware Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Using Model Predictive Control". Opponent is Professor Jonas Fredriksson, Chalmers. Supervisor is Professor Erik Frisk, Linköping University and Associate Professor Björn Olofsson, Linköping University & Lund University

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Lida Khajavizadeh, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends her PhD thesis "Materials design for the improvement of SiC field effect gas sensor performance in high temperature process control applications". Opponent: Professor Krisztian Kordas, Oulu University.

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Mariusz Wzorek, at the Department of Computer and Information Science (IDA), defends his thesis entitled "Selected Functionalities for Autonomous Intelligent Systems in Public Safety Scenarios". Main supervisor: Patrick Doherty, Professor, IDA. Opponent: Pascual Campoy, Universidad Politécnica Madrid UPM, Spain. Chairman of the event: Petru Eles, Professor Emeritus, IDA. The event is public and held in English. 

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Thomas Heeger, at the Division of Fluid and Mechatronic Systems, Department of Management and Engineering defends his thesis entitled "Design of Electro-Hydraulic Energy Converters - With Focus on lntegrated Designs and Valve Plate Rotation". Supervisor is Liselott Ericson, senior associate professor, Linköping University. Opponent is  Andreas Johansson, Saab AB. The event is open to the public. Language: English.

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 Shamisa Shoja, at Department of Electical Engineering (ISY), defends her licentiate thesis: "On Complexity Certification of Branch-and-Bound Methods for MILP and MIQP with Applications to Hybrid MPC". Supervisor is Daniel Axehill, Senior Associate Professor, ISY/LiU and co-supervisor is Martin Engvist, Associate Professor, ISY/LiU. Opponent is Jan Kronqvist, Assistant Professor at KTH. 

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Eva Miglbauer at the Department of Science and Technology, defends the thesis “Bioelectronic Approaches for On-Demand Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species”. The event is open to the public. Language: English. Faculty opponent is Professor Lars Peter Nielsen, Aarhus University, Denmark. Supervisor is Eric Glowacki, LiU.

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Xiao Li, Department of physics, chemistry and biology (IFM), defends her doctoral thesis "Toward Energy-efficient Physical Vapor Deposition: Routes for Replacing Substrate Heating during Magnetron Sputtering by Employing Metal Ion Irradiation”. Opponent: Prof. Jyh-Wei (Jeff) Lee, Ming Chi University of Technology, Taiwan.

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Jiu Pang, at the Department of Science and Technology, defends the thesis “Computational Studies of Cellulose-based Materials and Devices”. The event is open to the public. Language: English. Faculty opponent is Dr Maria Sammalkorpi, Aalto University, Finland. Supervisor is Igor Zozoulenko, LiU.

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Milda Poceviciute, at the Department of Science and Technology, defends the thesis “Addressing generalisation challenges in deep learning for digital pathology in a clinical setting”. The event is open to the public. Language: English. Faculty opponent is Professor Nasir Rajpoot, University of Warwick, UK. Supervisor is Claes Lundström, LiU.

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