PhD Students

Yun Zhang (completed 2018)

• Thesis: Condition-Based Maintenance Models: Application to Subsea Safety Systems
• Supervisor: Anne Barros
• Co-supervisor: Antoine Rauzy

Juntao Zhang (completed 2018)

• Thesis: Contribution to reliability and availability analysis of novel subsea technologies - Methods and approaches to apply in the early design phase
• Supervisor: Mary Ann Lundteigen
• Co-supervisor: Yiliu Liu

Geir-Ove Strand (completed 2017)

• Thesis: Quantitative well risk assessment
• Supervisor: Mary Ann Lundteigen

Abraham Almaw Jigar (contract ends)

• Thesis: Reliability engineering of safety-critical systems (tentative)
• Supervisor: Mary Ann Lundteigen
• Co-supervisor: Yiliu Liu

Hyung-Ju Kim (completed 2016)

• Thesis: Maritime safety: An analysis of accident causation and measures for reducing risk at sea
• Supervisor: Stein Haugen
• Co-supervisor: Ingrid Bower Utne

 Xue Yang (completed 2016)

• Thesis: Decision-oriented Operational Risk Assessment: Contributions to the understanding of operational risk in the oil and gas industry
• Supervisor: Stein Haugen

 Sverre Andreas Kvalheim (ongoing)

• Thesis: TBS
• Supervisor: Stein Haugen

Sizarta Sarshar (completed 2018)

• Thesis: Management of Major Accident Risk through the Planning Process of Offshore Maintenance Activities: Contributions to the understanding of operational risk in the oil and gas industry
• Supervisor: Stein Haugen

 Peter Okoh (completed 2015)

• Thesis: Maintenance strategies for major accident prevention
• Supervisor: Stein Haugen
• Co-supervisor: Per Schjølberg

 Tor Olav Grøtan (completed, 2015)

• Thesis: Organizing, thinking and acting resiliently under the imperative of compliance. On the potential impact of resilience thinking on safety management and risk consideration
• Supervisor: Jørn Vatn
• Grøtan is working in SINTEF Technology and Society, department for Safety Research

Harald Rødseth (completed 2017)

• Thesis: Development of Indicators for Maintenance Management within Integrated Planning
• Supervisor: Per Schjølberg
• Co-supervisor: Jørn Vatn

Zafar Hameed (ongoing)

• Thesis: TBS
• Supervisor: Jørn Vatn

 Inger Lise Johansen (completed, 2014)

• Thesis: Risk assessment in risk-informed decision-making

• Supervisor: Marvin Rausand

• Co-supervisor: Mary Ann Lundteigen

• Inger Lise defended her thesis 22 September 2014

• She now works at the Road Administration (Statens vegvesen)

Maryam Rahimi

• Thesis:  A contribution to reliability qualification of new technical equipment: with focus on subsea production equipment
• Supervisor: Marvin Rausand
• Maryam defended her thesis 13 December 2013 and is currently working with development of subsea technology in Aker Solutions, Oslo.

Hui Jin (completed, 2013)

• Thesis: A contribution to reliability assessment of safety-instrumented systems
• Supervisor: Marvin Rausand
• Co-supervisor: Mary Ann Lundteigen
• Hui defended his thesis 14 October 2013 and is currently working for the consulting company SIS-TECH in Houston, USA

Ivonne Andrade Herrera (completed, 2012)

• Thesis: Proactive safety performance indicators: Resilience engineering perspective on safety management
• Supervisor: Jørn Vatn
• Co-supervisor: Jan Hovden
• Ivonne defended his thesis in February 2012 and is currently working as a senior research scientist at SINTEF Information and Communication Technology in Trondheim

Thomas Welte (completed, 2012)

• Thesis: Deterioration and Maintenance Models for Components in Hydropower Plants
• Supervisor: Jørn Vatn
• Thomas defended his thesis in July 2012 and is currently working as a research scientist at SINTEF Energy Research in Trondheim

Mary Ann Lundteigen (completed, 2009)

• Thesis: Safety instrumented systems in the oil and gas industry: Concepts and methods for safety and reliability assessments in design and operation
• Supervisor: Marvin Rausand
• Mary Ann defended her thesis in 2009 and is currently a professor in the RAMS Group, Department of Production and Quality Engineering, NTNU

• Thesis: Sustainable Fishing Fleet; a Systems Engineering Approach
• Supervisor: Marvin Rausand
• Ingrid defended her thesis in 2007 and is currently a professor at the Department of Marine Technology, NTNU

Eivind Okstad (completed, 2007)

• Thesis: Decision framework for well delivery processes: Application of analytical methods to decision-making
• Supervisor: Sigbjørn Sangesland, Department of Petroleum Engineering
• Co-supervisor: Marvin Rausand
• Eivind is a senior research scientist at SINTEF Safety Research