PhD projects

The Centre for Deep Sea Research currently hosts several PhD students.

Former Centre PhD students Francesca, Petra and Linn on cruise in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

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Petra Hribovšek

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PhD candidates are a cornerstone of the interdisciplinary research environment at the Centre for Deep Sea Research. Our PhD projects cover a wide range of themes within Earth science and biology.

Read about Petra, one of our former PhD candidates (currently working on her post-doc) and her experience of working on her PhD project within the Centre. Click on the links below to learn more about the different current PhD projects.

Here you can also read about successfully completed degrees at the Centre for Deep Sea Research since 2017.

If you have finished your MSc degree and are considering applying for a PhD project at UiB and within the Centre, read more here:

Vacant positions at UiB: https://www.uib.no/en/about/84777/vacant-positions-uib

General information: https://www.uib.no/en/matnat/53972/doctoral-education-phd-faculty-mathematics-and-natural-sciences

Our PhD projects

Connectivity and adaptations of rissoid snails (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) to chemosynthesis-based ecosystems along the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge.

PhD project of Brenda Vazquez

Experimental investigations of hydrothermal abiotic organic carbon production in the absence of minerals

PhD project of Chanakan Boonnawa

Physiological state of microbes and microbial community dynamics in the deep sedimentary biosphere

PhD project of Renee Hageman

Feedback mechanisms in hydrothermal mineral replacement reactions

PhD project of Ingvild Aarrestad

Shaping of hydrothermal microbiomes in response to energy availability: An ecological investigation of variance of deep sea microbial diversity at different scales in connection with energy sources

PhD project of Emily Denny

Diversity of biosynthetic gene clusters and antimicrobial peptides in Arctic deep-sea hydrothermal vent microbiomes

PhD project of Trong Thuc Nguyen

Into the Deep: Exploring microbial life and fluid-rock interactions in oceanic crust

PhD project of Hannah Babel

Morphology and geochemistry of axial volcanic ridges in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

PhD project of Håvard Hallås Stubseid

Geophysical remote sensing of deep sea mineral deposits using an autonomous underwater vehicle as a platform

PhD project of Solveig Lie Onstad

Hydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea

PhD project of Stian Rolfsen Gilje

Plastic pollution and stability of mine tailings in the marine environment

PhD project of Linn Merethe Brekke Olsen

Investigating Cu isotope fractionation as a tracer for seafloor mineral deposit formation using hydrothermal experiments

PhD project of Apolline Samin

Population genomics of the deep-water glass sponges Vazella portalesi and Pheronema carpenter

PhD project of Anna Patova

Experimental and field investigations of diverse organic carbon production pathways in seafloor hydrothermal systems

PhD project of Thomas Øfstegaard Viflot

09.10.2024