Ingrid Marie Bakke (Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management (MINA)) will defend her PhD thesis " Volatile organic compound emission from wood building materials – impact on indoor air quality" Friday the 11th of April, 2025.
PhD degree – Trial Lecture and Public Defence
English title of thesis
"Volatile organic compound emission from wood building materials – impact on indoor air quality"
Norwegian title of thesis
"Flyktige organiske forbindelsers avgassing fra byggematerialer i tre – effekt på inneluftkvalitet"
Prescribed subject of the trial lecture
"Potential health effects of wood-VOC based on current toxicological and epidemiological knowledge”.
Time and place for the trial lecture and the public defence
Friday 11 April 2025, at 12.15 at Festsalen, Clock building.
The disputation can be attended by using the following link in Zoom:
https://nmbu.zoom.us/j/62969698652
All are welcome to attend, either physically or digitally, but please read the guidelines below before you open the link. This is to make sure that the disputation can be held without interruptions and noise.
Evaluation committee
First opponent: Dr. Martin Ohlmeyer (Thünen Institute for Wood Research, Germany)
Second opponent: Professor Peter Haglund (Umeå University, Sweden)
Committee coordinator: Professor Line Nybakken (MINA/NMBU)
Supervisors
Main supervisor: Professor Anders Quale Nyrud (MINA/NMBU)
Co-supervisors: Professor Elin Lovise Folven Gjengedal (MINA/NMBU) and Professor Roland Kallenborn (KBM/NMBU)
Guidelines for digital attendance:
- Do not use the camera.
- Mute your microphone.
- In Zoom you will first be placed in the waiting room. Please introduce yourself with your name, rather than with your IP address or computer name.
- If anyone has a question and wants to oppose ‘ex auditorio’, please write in the chat window of Zoom (1) “XY (your name) has a question" and (2) the question in brief. The chair of the defense will evaluate whether your question is opportune, and you will be given the word after the two opponents have concluded.
- When you are being given the word, you switch on your microphone and camera. Ensure briefly whether you are being heard.
- We advise you to test your own equipment before attending.
- The chat is not to be used for general discussions.
The doctoral thesis is available for public review. For those of you who want access to the thesis in pdf-form, please send an email to Brage Monsen – brage.monsen@nmbu.no.