CGB PhD students

Doing a PhD at CGB

PhD positions will be posted on the web when they become available.  

Learn more about doing a PhD at UiB.

Here is an alphabetical list of CGB's PhD students (past and present).

Mia Bengtsson 2006 - 2010
"Bacterial biofilms on kelp: Biodiversity and roles in kelp forest carbon cycling"

Paco Cárdenas (completed June 2010)
Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Evolution of the Astrophorida (Porifera, Demospongiae)

Kristin Flesland 2009-2014
”Hydrothermal and volcanic history at ultra-slow spreading ridges recorded in sediment cores”

Eugene Grosch (visiting PhD students from Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON), at the University of Cape Town)

Heidi Hansen
"Source heterogeneities and differentiation processes at slow and ultraslow spreading ridges"

William Hocking 2007-2011
"Gene regulation in Archaeoglobus fulgidus VC16, a hyperthermopilic sulfate reducing facutltative autotroph."

Tajul Islam (completed 2009)
Discovery of novel methanotrophs from extreme environments

Steffen Jørgensen 2008 - 2012
“Microbial Diversity and Functionality in Deep-Sea Sediments: Influence of Volcanism and Hydrothermal Activity”

Anders Lanzén 2008-2012
“Analysis of sequencing data in environmental genomics”

Karin Landschulze 2010-2014

Kirsten Möller 2009 - 2011
"Transition metal isotope fractionation in hydrothermal iron-sulphide deposits of the Mohns and Knipovich Ridges, North Atlantic Ocean"

Bernt Rydland Olsen 2009 - 2013
"Zoo-plankton food web of North-Atlantic hydrothermal plumes"

Yuangao Qu 2009-2013

Irene Roalkvam 2009 - 2012
Metagenomics and metaproteomics of deep arctic hydrothermal systems

Bjørn Olav Steinsbu
“Diversity and culturing study of Archaea and Bacteria in marine hydrothermal systems”

Ingeborg Økland 2007-2011
“Alteration processes in the ocean crust and upper mantle”