PhD dissertations

Five PhD candidates defended their thesis at CBD in 2020:

February 28th Rachael Morgan “Physiological plasticity and evolution of thermal performance in zebrafish” Opponents: Professor Suzanne Currie, Acadia University, Canada Associate Professor Felix Mark, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany

April 3rd

Yihan Cao “Statistical methods for estimating fluctuating selection” Opponents: Professor Jarrod Hadfield, University of Edinburgh, UK Professor Hans J. Skaug, University of Bergen, Norway

May 22nd

Kate Layton-Matthews “Demographic consequences of rapid climate change and density dependence in migratory Arctic geese” Opponents: Professor Rolf Anker Ims, University of Tromsø, Norway Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

June 12th

Lars Rød-Eriksen “Drivers of change in meso-carnivore distributions in a northern ecosystem” Opponents: Professor Emeritus Jon Swenson, NMBU, Norway Associate Professor Laura Prugh, University of Washington, USA

July 23th

Maria Lie Selle «Novel statistical variance and dependency models in quantitative genetics: Enabled by recent inference methods» Opponents: Professor Robert J. Tempelman, Department of Animal Science and Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA Professor Janine Illian, School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK