PhD Education at the University of Stavanger

The University of Stavanger has five PhD programmes that cover a wide range of disciplines.

Facts
PhD programmes

5

Completed PhD degrees in 2023

61

Pursue a PhD at UiS?

Our PhD programmes

Upcoming courses and events

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 16.10.2024

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 30.10.2024

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

How to write the “kappe”?

Fri. 08.11.2024

13:00-15:30

Kjell Arholms hus

PhD Complete: Fundamentals of Academic Writing and the Writing Process

Tue. 12.11.2024

09:15-12:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, campus Ullandhaug

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 13.11.2024

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 27.11.2024

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

Staying Well and Being Productive

Fri. 29.11.2024

09:00-11:30

Online

PhD Workshop: On Stage - voice, body, language and nerves

Mon. 02.12 09:00

tue. 03.12 12:30

UiS Campus
AR V-209

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 11.12.2024

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Studieverkstedet

The research of our PhD candidates

Design optimisation for floating offshore wind turbines

Anja Schnepf defended her PhD-thesis titled "Design optimisation of Power Cable Configurations for Floating Offshore Win...

New methods for characterization of impurities in chalk

Tine Vigdel Bredal has investigated different methods for analyzing chalk at core level and right down to the smallest s...

Numerical modelling of floating docks

Jianan Zhang has performed research on the numerical modelling of the floating docks. On 31 May, she defended her doctor...

Detects cerebral stroke using artificial intelligence

She is a radiologist at Stavanger University Hospital, he is a computer scientist. Now they have teamed up to develop a ...

Advanced methods for field-scale reservoir simulation

Anna Kvashchuk defended her dissertation for the degree of PhD at the University of Stavanger the 30th of April.

Doctoral thesis on how students' mindsets affect learning outcomes

Elin Svensen defended her Ph.D. in sociology, social work, culture, and society at the Faculty of Social Sciences on Dec...

What influences nurses' career choices?

Leaders who support, listen to, and value their staff are extremely important for nurses' ambitions regarding further ca...

Design of autonomous underwater vehicles

Yucong Ma has researched dynamic analysis and design of subsea shuttle tanker systems.

Seismic inversion methods for reservoir characterisation

Nisar Ahmed has developed a workflow for seismic inversion methods to estimate the rock-properties in a reservoir.

Environmental risk assessment of enhanced oil recovery solutions

In his PhD work, Mehul Vora has contributed to new knowledge about the environmental risk related to shortlisted product...

Understanding the initial wettability of reservoirs

Panagiotis Aslanidis defended his thesis on wettability for core analysis. The purpose of his research was to link reser...

Maintenance of ageing structures and mechanical equipment

Fredrik Bjørheim, PhD candidate at the Faculty of Science and Technology, has investigated damage assessment and modelin...

Dissertation on policy instruments for entrepreneurs

Founder and entrepreneur Murshid M. Ali defended his dissertation for the Ph.D. degree in Management, Economics, and Tou...

Integrated solar panels in walls and roofs can be efficient power sources

“Norway’s cold climate is very suitable for building-integrated photovoltaics,” says researcher Hassan Gholami. He compl...

Synthetic polymers for enhanced oil recovery

In her doctoral work, Siv Marie Åsen has taken a closer look at what happens to different types of polymers when they ar...

Doctoral candidates and non-academic careers

Saeed Moghadam-Saman defended his PhD at the University of Stavanger 21 May 2021.

Qualification of new partitioning tracers

Mário Helder Lopes da Silva has developed a method for qualification of new partitioning tracers for use in Partitioning...

Meet ph.d student Ingrid

– You are given the opportunity to study risk analysis in one of the most internationally acknowledged research environm...

Temperature variations i chalk reservoirs

Tijana Voake defended her PhD thesis 22 January, and is now ready for new challenges.

Modelling of CO2 injection in tight shale gas reservoirs

Dhruvit Berawala's PhD project deals with numerical modelling of shale gas production and CO2 injection in shale gas res...