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The PhDs of Camilla Jensen and Jacqueline Weidner highlighted by Digital Life Norway

Digital Life Norway features on their web pages the modelling done by Camilla Jensen and Jacqueline Weidnerin during their PhDs.

The full story can be read here:
https://digitallifenorway.org/blogg/does-the-hormone-system-contain-an-ability-to-plan-for-the-future

[30 September 2020]



 

New PhD: Jacqueline Weidner on hormonal control of behaviour

Jacqueline Weidner defended her thesis successfully 29 June 2020.

Her first paper was a model of the hormone system involved in appetite, feeding, and growth in juvenile fish, with a focus on how the hormone system could control the organism with maximum juvenile survival probability as a goal function.

Her second paper was how this control can work in stochastic food environments, where the fitness value of future-anticipatory control mechanisms by the hormone system emerge from the model.

The third paper is an application of the model to understand the Pace-of-life syndrome (POLS).

[25 September 2020]



 

Camilla Håkonsrud Jensen digitally defended her PhD on digital fish

After a successful and fully digital trial lecture, Camilla was already experienced in the art of online presentations when it was time to defend her PhD thesis. And of course, it went smooth. Congratulations as PhD, Dr Jensen!

While the discussion with opponents took place in Zoom, the audience had to follow the defence livestreamed to YouTube. Opponents Jane Behrens from DTU Aqua in Copenhagen and Knut Wiik Vollset at NORCE in Bergen led an exciting and interesting discussion with Camilla as she defended her thesis Hormone strategies as a key for understanding life history tradeoffs in fish.

It was bizarrely ironic that Camilla, who has such a warm heart for parasites, had to cancel her PhD party because of a pathogen, and that her thesis work on digital fish had to be defended digitally. But true to how we have learned to know Camilla, she of course took the whole challenge with a big smile!

[28 April 2020]



 

Congratulations Dr. Ljungström!


With a bit of planning, even unforeseen events at Friday 13th can eventually have a positive outcome. Congratulations, Dr. Ljungström!