The PhD interview

More than 250 doctoral candidates earn their PhD at the University of Bergen each year. Meet some of them in this series of Q&As.

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PhD candidates before the promotion service

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Thor Brødreskift/University of Bergen

Updated: 10.11.2017 (First published: 13.09.2016)

A THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE: Håkon Otneim felt a need to learn more after finishing his Masters’s thesis. A PhD presented him with new challenges.

Problems are there to be solved

A thirst for knowledge was Håkon Otneim’s motivation to get a PhD. The mathematical statistics method he created through his PhD can solve problems within most disciplines.

IMPORTANT RESEARCH: Liv Sandlund has found that by turning off a specific receptor in the sea lice can lead to solutions for the problems the aquaculture industry faces with this small crustacean.

New research gives hope to exterminate the sea lice

The sea lice cause considerable problems for the fish farming industry. Liv Sandlund’s research can make the sea lice sterile and increase the mortality rate.

Wittgenstein: The poetic philosopher

Sarah Uffelmann Szeltner has investigated the concept of grammar in Ludwig Wittgenstein´s writing. – He wrote like a poet, Szeltner says.

PhD graduate Amani Thomas Mori from the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen.

Prioritising within limited health budgets

Amani Thomas has proved that a new and more effective antimalarial medicine can save 360,000 more children from malaria each year in his home country Tanzania.

Oral health is a window to general health

Patients with diabetes often have poor oral health. Hasaan Mohamed is the first researcher to investigate this connection among diabetes patients in Sudan.