Public defence of doctoral thesis

Nov282018 Doctoral thesisGuided wave-based approach for health monitoring of composite structures; Application to wind turbine bladesThe use of composite materials has increased in manufacturing of large structures. These structures can be subjected to different types of defects, for which detection has always been a challenge. Wind turbine blades are a perfect example of these... Author: Siavash Shoja. Opponent: Prof. Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland..   10:00  Location: HA2, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chalmers. Guided wave-based approach for health monitoring of composite structures; Application to wind turbine bladesThe use of composite materials has increased in manufacturing of large structures. These structures can be subjected to different types of defects,... Author: Siavash Shoja. Opponent: Prof. Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Institute of Fluid Flow Machinery, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland..   10:00  Location: HA2, Hörsalsvägen 4, Chalmers. Dec072018 Doctoral thesisHydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Vertical Falling Films with Smooth and Modified Heat-Transfer Surfaces – An Experimental and Numerical InvestigationHigh energy utilization efficiency is important to achieve a sustainable society. By having highly efficient heat exchangers, more energy can be recovered and reused at a lower cost. One commonly used type of heat exchangers is a vertical falling ... Author: Anders Åkesjö. Opponent: Professor Christian Ruyer-Quil, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Frankrike.   10:00  Location: KB-salen, Kemigården 4. Hydrodynamics and Heat Transfer in Vertical Falling Films with Smooth and Modified Heat-Transfer Surfaces – An Experimental and Numerical InvestigationHigh energy utilization efficiency is important to achieve a sustainable society. By having highly efficient heat exchangers, more energy can be re... Author: Anders Åkesjö. Opponent: Professor Christian Ruyer-Quil, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Frankrike.   10:00  Location: KB-salen, Kemigården 4. Nov302018 Doctoral thesisThe role of piston bowl shape in controlling soot emissions from heavy-duty Diesel engines.<strong>The role of piston bowl shape in controlling soot emissions from heavy-duty Diesel engines.</strong><br /><br />Diesel combustion is often subject to a trade-off between emissions of soot and nitrogen oxides (NOx). This trade-off limits th... Author: Jan Eismark. Opponent: Dr.Paul Miles, Sandia National Laboratories, USA.   10:00  Location: FB Lecture hall, Fysikgården 4, Johanneberg. The role of piston bowl shape in controlling soot emissions from heavy-duty Diesel engines.<strong>The role of piston bowl shape in controlling soot emissions from heavy-duty Diesel engines.</strong><br /><br />Diesel combustion is often ... Author: Jan Eismark. Opponent: Dr.Paul Miles, Sandia National Laboratories, USA.   10:00  Location: FB Lecture hall, Fysikgården 4, Johanneberg. Dec072018 Doctoral thesisFlexible Information-Flow ControlAs more and more sensitive data is handled by software, its trustworthiness<br />becomes an increasingly important concern. This thesis presents work on ensuring<br />that information processed by computing systems is not disclosed to third<br />p... Author: Daniel Schoepe. Opponent: Alexander Pretschner, Technical University Munich, Germany.   10:00  Location: ED, EDIT building, Rännvägen 6, Chalmers. Flexible Information-Flow ControlAs more and more sensitive data is handled by software, its trustworthiness<br />becomes an increasingly important concern. This thesis presents wo... Author: Daniel Schoepe. Opponent: Alexander Pretschner, Technical University Munich, Germany.   10:00  Location: ED, EDIT building, Rännvägen 6, Chalmers. Dec072018 Doctoral thesisSynthesis of jojoba-like wax esters in metabolically engineered strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiaeYeast has a long-standing tradition in human history as a production organism of choice. Besides being used for the production of fermented products like bread or beer, it has also been extensively explored for the production of proteins and chemi... Author: Leonie Wenning. Opponent: Prof. Paola Branduardi, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.   13:00  Location: KC-salen, Kemigården 4, Chalmers. Synthesis of jojoba-like wax esters in metabolically engineered strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiaeYeast has a long-standing tradition in human history as a production organism of choice. Besides being used for the production of fermented product... Author: Leonie Wenning. Opponent: Prof. Paola Branduardi, Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.   13:00  Location: KC-salen, Kemigården 4, Chalmers. Nov302018 Doctoral thesisNanoparticle Self-assembly on Prefabricated Nano StrucutresThe demand for more powerful computers have been increasing ever since the first semiconducting devices were invented in the second half of the 20th century. The demand for an increase in computing power have escalated since the start of modern co... Author: Johnas Eklöf. Opponent: Heiko Wolf, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland.   10:00  Location: KC. Nanoparticle Self-assembly on Prefabricated Nano StrucutresThe demand for more powerful computers have been increasing ever since the first semiconducting devices were invented in the second half of the 20t... Author: Johnas Eklöf. Opponent: Heiko Wolf, Zurich Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland.   10:00  Location: KC. Nov262018 Doctoral thesisTetradentate amide extraction agents for trivalent lanthanidesLanthanides are valuable materials. They are used in catalysts, permanent magnets, batteries, optical devices, and in many other products. Lanthanides are mainly supplied by mining industry, which generates large volumes of waste due to relatively... Author: Mikhail S Tyumentsev. Opponent: Prof. Helen Aspinall, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.   10:00  Location: ED-salen, Edit-huset, Hörsalsvägen 11, Chalmers. Tetradentate amide extraction agents for trivalent lanthanidesLanthanides are valuable materials. They are used in catalysts, permanent magnets, batteries, optical devices, and in many other products. Lanthani... Author: Mikhail S Tyumentsev. Opponent: Prof. Helen Aspinall, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.   10:00  Location: ED-salen, Edit-huset, Hörsalsvägen 11, Chalmers. Nov272018 Doctoral thesisPartial Oxidation of Methane over Functionalised Zeolites and ZeotypesPartial oxidation of methane to methanol is an industrially important process that allows natural gas and biogas to be utilised for methanol-based production of chemicals or converted to liquid methanol fuel, which make transportation more facile.... Author: Xueting Wang. Opponent: Stian Svelle, Universitet i Oslo.   10:00  Location: PJ-salen. Partial Oxidation of Methane over Functionalised Zeolites and ZeotypesPartial oxidation of methane to methanol is an industrially important process that allows natural gas and biogas to be utilised for methanol-based ... Author: Xueting Wang. Opponent: Stian Svelle, Universitet i Oslo.   10:00  Location: PJ-salen. Nov232018 Doctoral thesisClimate Change: Models, Metrics and Meaning MakingThis thesis, combining research in climate science and educational science, investigates different aspects of climate knowledge. It consists of five papers and covers three major topics: emission metrics, public understanding of atmospheric CO2 ac... Author: Erik Sterner. Opponent: Dr. Glen Peters, CICERO, Norway.   13:15  Location: HA3, Hörsalsvägen 4. Climate Change: Models, Metrics and Meaning MakingThis thesis, combining research in climate science and educational science, investigates different aspects of climate knowledge. It consists of fiv... Author: Erik Sterner. Opponent: Dr. Glen Peters, CICERO, Norway.   13:15  Location: HA3, Hörsalsvägen 4. Nov302018 Doctoral thesisHydrometallurgical Treatment of Neodymium Magnet WasteRecent decades have seen a considerable increase in the usage of rare-earth elements (REEs) in modern technologies and green energy sources. Recycling of REEs out of end-of-life products and E-scrap has become an alternative to mining them out of ... Author: Marino Gergoric. Opponent: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Hans-Jörg Bart, Kaiserslautern Tekniska Universitetet, Tyskland.   13:00  Location: KS101, Kemivägen 4, 412 96 Göteborg. Hydrometallurgical Treatment of Neodymium Magnet WasteRecent decades have seen a considerable increase in the usage of rare-earth elements (REEs) in modern technologies and green energy sources. Recycl... Author: Marino Gergoric. Opponent: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. techn. Hans-Jörg Bart, Kaiserslautern Tekniska Universitetet, Tyskland.   13:00  Location: KS101, Kemivägen 4, 412 96 Göteborg. Nov152018 Doctoral thesisSynthesis and Photochemical Characterisation of Photoactive Compounds for Molecular ElectronicsIn this modern age of technology, communication is highly reliant on computing devices such as mobile phones and computers. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) as well as the widespread use of user-generated con... Author: Behabitu Ergette Tebikachew. Opponent: Prof.Dr. Hermann A. Wegner, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.   10:00  Location: KE. Synthesis and Photochemical Characterisation of Photoactive Compounds for Molecular ElectronicsIn this modern age of technology, communication is highly reliant on computing devices such as mobile phones and computers. The advent of artificia... Author: Behabitu Ergette Tebikachew. Opponent: Prof.Dr. Hermann A. Wegner, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.   10:00  Location: KE. Nov302018 Doctoral thesisMaterial characterisation for crash modelling of compositesThe transport industry must find solutions to reduce its impact on climate change. A promising way to reduce the weight of vehicles and therefore to reduce the CO2 emissions is to introduce components made of lightweight composite materials, in pa... Author: Thomas Bru. Opponent: Prof. Ivana Partridge, University of Bristol, UK.   10:00  Location: VDL, Tvärgata 4C, Chalmers. Material characterisation for crash modelling of compositesThe transport industry must find solutions to reduce its impact on climate change. A promising way to reduce the weight of vehicles and therefore t... Author: Thomas Bru. Opponent: Prof. Ivana Partridge, University of Bristol, UK.   10:00  Location: VDL, Tvärgata 4C, Chalmers. Nov262018 Doctoral thesisHuman-Technology Interactions - Understanding Design and Use Beyond Technology In ShippingThe rapid advance of technologies is revolutionizing the way people work and transforming society into a digital world. In the shipping domain, many innovative technical systems have been designed and developed in the past decades, aiming to enabl... Author: Yemao Man. Opponent: Dr. Salman Nazir, University College of Southeast Norway.   10:00  Location: The lecture hall Delta, Svea House at Forskningsgången 4, Gothenburg, Sweden. Human-Technology Interactions - Understanding Design and Use Beyond Technology In ShippingThe rapid advance of technologies is revolutionizing the way people work and transforming society into a digital world. In the shipping domain, man... Author: Yemao Man. Opponent: Dr. Salman Nazir, University College of Southeast Norway.   10:00  Location: The lecture hall Delta, Svea House at Forskningsgången 4, Gothenburg, Sweden. Nov162018 Doctoral thesisLipid-based liquid crystals as drug delivery vehicles for antimicrobial peptidesThe development of antimicrobial resistance is a great challenge within health sectors worldwide. Thus, demand for new, efficient treatments is urgent in order to treat various bacterial infections. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a group of ant... Author: Lukas Boge. Opponent: Prof. Clive Prestidge, University of South Australia, Australia.   09:00  Location: KB, Kemigården 4. Lipid-based liquid crystals as drug delivery vehicles for antimicrobial peptidesThe development of antimicrobial resistance is a great challenge within health sectors worldwide. Thus, demand for new, efficient treatments is urg... Author: Lukas Boge. Opponent: Prof. Clive Prestidge, University of South Australia, Australia.   09:00  Location: KB, Kemigården 4. Nov272018 Doctoral thesisOn Design and Applications of Practical Concurrent Data StructuresThe proliferation of multicore processors is having an enormous impact on software design and development. In order to exploit parallelism available in multicores, there is a need to design and implement abstractions that programmers can use for g... Author: Ivan Walulya. Opponent: Assoc. Prof. Danny Hendler, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.   10:00  Location: ED, EDIT, Hörsalsvägen 11, Chalmers.. On Design and Applications of Practical Concurrent Data StructuresThe proliferation of multicore processors is having an enormous impact on software design and development. In order to exploit parallelism availabl... Author: Ivan Walulya. Opponent: Assoc. Prof. Danny Hendler, Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.   10:00  Location: ED, EDIT, Hörsalsvägen 11, Chalmers.. Nov232018 Doctoral thesisRethinking Injury Events. Explorations in Spatial Aspects and Situational Prevention StrategiesThis dissertation employs a holistic approach to injuries in everyday settings. It examines spatial aspects of adolescents’ injury events in residential situations, school situations, and suicidal situations, seeking to throw light on any reciproc... Author: Charlotta Thodelius. Opponent: Per-Olof Wikström, University of Cambridge, UK.   09:00  Location: Scaniasalen, Chalmersplatsen 1. Rethinking Injury Events. Explorations in Spatial Aspects and Situational Prevention StrategiesThis dissertation employs a holistic approach to injuries in everyday settings. It examines spatial aspects of adolescents’ injury events in reside... Author: Charlotta Thodelius. Opponent: Per-Olof Wikström, University of Cambridge, UK.   09:00  Location: Scaniasalen, Chalmersplatsen 1. Nov162018 Doctoral thesisDriving rain tightness, intrusion rates and phenomenology of leakages in defects of façades: A new calculation algorithmThis thesis presents the driving rain tightness of façades with façade details as well as the water leakage flows that can be expected. Furthermore, it describes the key mechanisms for water leakage in defects in the outermost layer of external wa... Author: Lars Olsson. Opponent: DR. Michael Lacasse, National Research Council Canada, NRC, Canada.   10:00  Location: SB-L400. Driving rain tightness, intrusion rates and phenomenology of leakages in defects of façades: A new calculation algorithmThis thesis presents the driving rain tightness of façades with façade details as well as the water leakage flows that can be expected. Furthermore... Author: Lars Olsson. Opponent: DR. Michael Lacasse, National Research Council Canada, NRC, Canada.   10:00  Location: SB-L400. Nov132018 Doctoral thesisReuse of Engineering Knowledge: Perspectives on Experience-Based Codified Knowledge in Incremental Product DevelopmentProduct development is a knowledge-intensive activity and as products become more complex and competition intensifies, the amount of knowledge increases. A prerequisite for engineers who apply current best practices and continuously improve their ... Author: Daniel Stenholm. Opponent: Durward K. Sobek II, Montana State University, USA.   10:00  Location: Virtual Development Laboratory, Chalmers Johanneberg. Reuse of Engineering Knowledge: Perspectives on Experience-Based Codified Knowledge in Incremental Product DevelopmentProduct development is a knowledge-intensive activity and as products become more complex and competition intensifies, the amount of knowledge incr... Author: Daniel Stenholm. Opponent: Durward K. Sobek II, Montana State University, USA.   10:00  Location: Virtual Development Laboratory, Chalmers Johanneberg. Nov162018 Doctoral thesisOn the Optimisation and Regulation of Clinical TrialsThe basic premise of this thesis is that Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT) can and should be used to solve clinical trial design problems. While the flexibility of the framework allows for accommodating a great variety of situations, it also requires... Author: Sebastian Jobjörnsson. Opponent: Prof. Tim Friede, Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen.   13:15  Location: Pascal. On the Optimisation and Regulation of Clinical TrialsThe basic premise of this thesis is that Bayesian Decision Theory (BDT) can and should be used to solve clinical trial design problems. While the f... Author: Sebastian Jobjörnsson. Opponent: Prof. Tim Friede, Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center Göttingen.   13:15  Location: Pascal.