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Vegard Nilsen

Vegard Nilsen

Associate Professor

  • Department of Building and Environmental Technology

Head of water and environmental engineering group at NMBU. PhD from 2016 in modeling infection risk (QMRA) from drinking water, and master's degree related to the effects of climate change in stormwater networks. Interested in mathematical modeling and computationally oriented problems. Since 2016, I have taught several courses at NMBU and supervised approx. 50 master theses on varied issues.

  • Areas of Work
    • Stormwater
    • Hydraulics
    • QMRA
    • Deep bed filtration
    • Mathematical modeling
  • Publications
  • Teaching

    Current teaching at NMBU:

    • TPS200 - Fluid Mechanics 1: Introduction (course responsible since 2019)
    • TPS210 - Fluid Mechanics 2: Engineering (responsible for the lab, course responsible 2020 - 2022)
    • THT280 - On-site Wastewater Systems (responsible for the QMRA module since 2017)

    Previous teaching at NMBU:

    • THT300 - Water Engineering (course responsible 2017 - 2019)
    • THT200 - Water Engineering for Landscape Planners (course responsible 2017 - 2018)
    • THT100 - Civil Engineering (lectures)
    • THT261 - Water Supply, Sewerage and Drainage (lectures, exam, grading)
    • THT271 - Basics of water and wastewater treatment technology (lectures)
    • THT310 - Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Engineering (lectures)
    • THT311 - Water & Wastewater Treatment (special topics) (lectures)
    • MATH111 - Calculus 1 (course responsible for auxiliary evening course in 2009)
  • Misc and CV

    A more or less up to date CV may be downloaded here.