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SAMCoT’s Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), comprising leading international academics under the leadership of Professor Erland M.
Schulson, provides the Centre with the necessary quality assurance to support high scientific research. SAMCoT International Research Partners:
Aalto University, School of Engineering; Delft University of Technology (TUDelft); Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA); Moscow State University (MSU);
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT); Technical University of Denmark (DTU); University
College London (UCL) and the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) greatly contribute to the Centre scientific dissemination goals.
DARIA ALEKSYUTINA
Daria Aleksyutina finished writing her doctoral thesis
‘Regularities in destruction of shores composed
of fine-grained rocks depending on their composition,
structure and properties - East coast of Baydaratskaya
Bay’ in 2016. The highlight for her was the successful
public defence of her thesis discussing the characteriza-
tionof permafrost at MSU on December 2.
YARED BEKELE
Yared Worku Bekele submitted his thesis ‘Isogeometric
Analysis of Coupled Problems in Porous Media -
Simulation of Ground Freezing’ in 2016 and defended it
successfully in May 19 at NTNU.
Bekele’s contribution to SAMCoT’s research continued
throughout the year as a research fellow within Coastal
Technology.
DISSEMINATION
ØIVIND K. KJERSTAD
Øivind Kjerstad’s broad field experience in the Arctic is
fundamental to the results achieved during his PhD
and current Postdoc position at SAMCoT (UNIS/NTNU).
He defended his thesis on ‘Dynamic Positioning of
Marine Vessels in Ice’ at NTNU on May 31, 2016. Kjer-
stad has participated in 6 different Research Cruises.
MARTIN STORHEIM
On 19 January 2016 Martin Storheim successfully
defended his PhD thesis ‘Structural Response in
Ship-Platform and Ship-Ice Collisions’. A series of
experiments led by Storheim to simulate what
happens when a ship slams into an iceberg were
featured by Discovery Channel’s Daily Planet Canada.
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