Dissertations 2026

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

Name: 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

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: Eleni Savvidou
Date of the defence: 13 March 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Tracking fluorinated chemicals and identifying alternatives in contemporary consumer products and technologies

Name: Simon Prokisch-Chalas
Date of the defence: 13 March 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Intracellular connectivity during stress and aging

Name: Amélie Piveteau
Date of the defence: 19 March 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Entanglement assisted quantum communication protocols

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

Name: Nadia Binte Obaid
Date of the defence: 27 March 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Plant Physiology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The chronicles of nodulation: the LCOs, the something and the evolutionary trajectories

April

Name: Ana Paula Lobez
Date of the defence: 17 April 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biophysics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Effects of ionic strength on protein-protein interactions: studies in III-IV respiratory supercomplexes

Name: Joel Hallgren
Date of the defence: 24 April 2026, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Adaptive strategies in the Caulobacteraceae: From Starvation to Speciation

Name: Marianne Stoessel
Date of the defence: 24 April 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Reindeer grazing land under pressure – Navigating climate and land-use changes in the mountain tundra

Name: Sjoerd de Vries
Date of the defence: 24 April 2026, at 13:15
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The Hecke trace formula for Drinfeld modular forms

Name: Aleksa Stanković
Date of the defence: 29 April 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric science and oceanography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Extratropical cyclones and extreme windstorms

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

Name: Laveena Kansara
Date of the defence: 7 May 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Recoding in Translation and Moonlighting in Mitosis: Insights from Drosophila melanogaster

Name: Madicken Åkerman
Date of the defence: 8 May 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Ethology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Understanding eyespots underwater

Name: Helen Sepman
Date of the defence: 15 May 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Analytical chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Machine Learning Tools to Identify Risk Derivers in Water

Name: Ernst Johnson
Date of the defence: 22 May 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Marine Geoscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Using Metagenomic Sedimentary Ancient DNA to Reconstruct Ecosystems Before and After the Last Glacial Maximum in Sweden

Name: Hongyu Xie
Date of the defence: 25 May 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: New Analytical Workflows for Comprehensive Chemical Exposomics in Human Plasma

Name: Marenka Brussee
Date of the defence: 25 May 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Tracing methane sources and fate across the East Siberian Arctic Shelf using triple-isotopic analysis

Name: Ymke de Jong
Date of the defence: 26 May 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Bioscience
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The gut microbiota - host interaction: from bioreactors and mouse models to the clinic.

Name: Harry Parke
Date of the defence: 26 May 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Phononic simulation and detection in a trapped ion system

Name: Nils Engler
Date of the defence: 29 May 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematical Statistics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Large exposure asymptotics in insurance valuation and reserving, tree regularisation and stochastic
control

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: J. Lukas K. König
Date of the defence: 5 June 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Theoretical Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Exceptional Topological Band Structures

Name: Rica Wegner
Date of the defence: 5 June 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Arctic plant-soil interactions: Understanding the effects and underlying mechanisms of how vegetation shifts affect soil carbon cycling in permafrost soils

Name: Maja-Stina Svanberg Frisinger
Date of the defence: 5 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Material Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Exploring Colloidal-Based Scrubbing Fluids for CO2 Separation: Formulation, Design and Evaluation

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

Name: Matteo Masini
Date of the defence: 11 June 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric science and oceanography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The lifecycle and impacts of wind-driven upwelling and downwelling jets in the Baltic Sea

Name: Moa Ohlsson
Date of the defence: 11 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Astronomy
Research subject: Astronomy
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Spectral Signatures of Synthetic Solar Plage

Name: Moa Skan
Date of the defence: 11 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Stockholm Resilience Centre
Research subject: Sustainability Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: The role of diversity in the provision and resilience of Nature Contributions to People

Name: Evgeniia Ikonnikova
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Inorganic Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Structure determination of zeolites and zeotypes across the disordered ladder

Name: Jonas Patrik Fredriksson
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Geological Sciences
Research subject: Geochemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Hidden Coastal Hypoxia and Deep-Basin Euxinia: Trends and events in two turbulent benthic boundary layers

Name: Michail Karalis
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Meteorology
Research subject: Atmospheric science and oceanography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Arctic air mass transformation: A Lagrangian view of the dynamical and physical drivers

Name: Rahul Ranjan
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Environmental Science
Research subject: Environmental Science
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: From clouds over boreal forest to fog events in polluted plains: New insights on CCN activity and cloud droplet formation through field observations and numerical modeling

Name: Isabelle Feinauer
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Systematics and Evolution
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Genomic consequences of postglacial recolonisation of Scandinavian mammals

Name: Mohanna Zarei
Date of the defence: 12 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Physical Geography
Research subject: Physical Geography
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Integrating the terrestrial water system: Catchment to global scale variations and dynamics in the changing climate

Name: Errol Yuksel
Date of the defence: 15 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Mathematics
Research subject: Mathematics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Representations of Toposes

Name: Lan Ma
Date of the defence: 15 June 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Ethology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: From Nestlings to Adults: Song Perception and Function in the Pied Flycatcher

August

Name: Dick Moberg
Date of the defence: 21 August 2006, at 09:30
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal ecology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Speciation through sperm and sperm storage divergence in Drosophila montana

September

Name: Robin Thomm
Date of the defence: 3 September 2026, at 10:00
Department: Department of Physics
Research subject: Physics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Rydberg State Engineering and Motional Interference with Trapped Ions

Name: Sergei Pirogov
Date of the defence: 3 September 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Biosciences
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Impact of histone acetylation and methylation on gene expression during Drosophila embryogenesis

Name: Radost Herboth
Date of the defence: 8 September 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Physical Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Modelling the crystal growth and polymorphic transitions
of active pharmaceutical ingredients

Name: Obsu Hirko Diriba
Date of the defence: 10 September 2026, at 9:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Variation in water quality, quantity, and use by small-holder farmers across a rural mosaic landscape in Ethiopia

Name: Huazhen Wang
Date of the defence: 11 September 2026, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Biosciences
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Developmental Control of Reproductive Tract Morphogenesis: Comparative analysis of conserved transcriptional mechanisms

Name: Kahkashan Kamal
Date of the defence: 18 September 2026, at 09:30
Department: Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute
Research subject: Molecular Biosciences
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Regulatory role of a Non-Coding Oligonucleotide in modulating Immune Tolerance

Name: Leonard Kersting
Date of the defence: 25 September 2026, at 09:30
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Sustainable synthesis and applications of diaryliodonium salts

Name: Maria Escriva Conde
Date of the defence: 28 September 2026, at 14:00
Department: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Research subject: Biochemistry and Bioinformatics
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Spatial Transcriptomic Characterization of the Tumor Microenvironment in Colorectal Cancer

October

Name: Armando Pacheco Valenciana
Date of the defence: 9 October 2026, at 09:00
Department: Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences
Research subject: Ecology and Evolution
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Metabolic dependencies at different levels of microbial organization

Name: Christopher Alan Cockerill
Date of the defence: 14 October 2026, at 13:00
Department: Department of Zoology
Research subject: Animal ecology
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Genomic Insights Into Arctic Fox Population History, Introgression, and Conservation

Name: Emanuele Silvi
Date of the defence: 23 October 2026, at 09:30
Department: Department of Chemistry
Research subject: Organic Chemistry
(Preliminary) Title of the thesis: Diborylation and Iridium-Catalyzed Selective Functionalization: Method Development and Applications

November