PhD Theses 2024

In 2024, we had the great honour of having 28 excellent young researchers doing their PhD projects on DTU Sustain. We are very proud to have these many PhD students at DTU Sustain who contribute to developing solutions for a more sustainable future.

Tao Jiang
Design and Synthesis of Transition Metal- Based Oxygen Catalyst and their Applications in Sustainable Energy Technology

Yuyue Zhang

Environmental performance assessment of global crop protection practice

Maria Bille Nielsen
European environmental regulation of nanomaterials: Inclusion of the eco-corona

Anna Lea Eggert
Exploring feedbacks between city development and adaptation responses to rising sea levels

Bastiaan Julien Reinaart Cockx
Individual-based modeling unveils pattern formation and population dynamics in microbial aggregates

Thomas Højland Lorentzen
Near-surface geophysical investigations of saline permafrost

Josephine Torp Kristensen
Radiochemical Analysis of Low-Level Naturally Occurring Radionuclides for Environmental Applications

Dragos-Ioan Bogatu
Resilient cooling and ventilation for buildings and people

Feiyan Wu
Synthesis and Immobilization of Defect-enriched Photocatalyst for Plastic Upcycling

Anne Holm Thomsen
Strategies for mitigating organic micropollutants in drinking water

Anne Mette Tholstrup Bagger

Valorization of mine tailings as cement replacement in concrete

Caroline Herlev Gebara
Towards Better Assessments of the Sustainable Development Goals: Advancing Methodologies for Comprehensive Evaluation and Implementation across Different Scales

Dong Ding
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as innovative adsorbents for indoor environment control: preparation, shaping, characterization, and novel applications

Eldbjørg Blikra Vea

Spatial and absolute environmental sustainability assessment with a focus on marine eutrophication

Emilie Patricia Dam-Krogh
Benchmarking the indoor environment in office buildings - characterisation, synthesis and practical application

Ermis Proestakis
Electric and elastic properties of low permeability sediments - Petrophysical modeling of fluid permeability in tight sedimentary rocks

Etienne Berthet

Dynamic modelling and development of indicators for gauging Sustainable Development

Heather Logan

Data Availability and Application of Plastic Additive Flows in LCAs of Plastics for the Circular Economy

Henning Wienkenjohann
Multi-scale transport and thermally-enhanced bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes in subsurface porous media

Jacopo Cogorno
PFOS fate in dynamic and multiphase subsurface environments: exploring electrostatic and chemical properties regulating PFOS accumulation at mineral-water interfaces

Kerstin von Borries
Advancing life cycle based chemical toxicity characterization through digitalization

Naser Eslami
Electroosmosis in Masonry

Manon Lisiecki

Importance of Material, Product and System Analysis in Design for Plastic Circularity

Mónica Coppo Frías

Remote sensing of water and land elevation for river hydraulic modelling

Pernille Krogh Ohms

Methodology development for assessing environmental sustainability of urban areas: Focus on building stocks

Tamara Pérez Guillemette

Balancing sustainability and safety for recirculating showers

Sharmilan Suntharalingam
A modeling framework to anticipate, mitigate, and adapt to the impact of climate change on the durability of civil infrastructure

Veronica Di Battista

Safe and sustainable by design strategies for multicomponent nanostructured materials: Learnings from industrially relevant case studies