Scholarships and students

I'm excited for the chance to contribute to a project assessing and protecting one of the planet's last great wildernesses.

With my background in computational ecotoxicology and data science, I'll be coding, adapting and integrating software for the development of Aggregate Exposure Pathways for priority Arctic pollutants. My work is co-funded by the PARC (Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemical) project and NIVA Computational Toxicology Program, and I'm looking forward to developing reusable tools for exposure assessment as part of all of these efforts.

During her postdoc (Nov 2023 – Oct 2024), Barkha started the development of mathematical/ statistical models for integrated data analysis, which will feed into the development of a Source to Outcome Predictor and establishing Next Generation Risk Assessments (NGRA) tools in the project EXPECT.

The primary goal of our project is to develop a physiologically based toxicokinetic (PBTK) model in halibut. PBTK models allow the prediction of the concentration and internal distribution of chemicals in various organisms. During my PhD, I will take the model developed for halibut and explore how it can be applied and optimised in other marine fish species to develop more precise species-specific PBTK models.

Hanne was a master's student in environmental sciences at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. During her master’s thesis, she took part in the establishment of physiological parameters in a species of Arctic fish, contributing to the development of a more species specific PBTK model to predict the concentration and internal distribution of chemicals.

Hanne successfully submitted her thesis in May 2024. Congratulations to her!

As a part of her master’s degree, Celine contributed to the research on the impacts of salmon delousing agents on the marine zooplankton Calanus finmarchicus. The project was a cooperation between NIVA and SINTEF Trondheim and expanded our knowledge on the impacts of the Norwegian Salmon Aquaculture on our marine environment.

Celine successfully submitted her thesis in May 2024. Congratulations to her!

Robin is a MPhil candidate involved in investigating the toxicity of single pollutants and their mixtures to microalgae, contributing to the development of AOPs of Arctic relevance. Her research is vital for EXPECT, as there is a need for experimental approaches that can reliably assess the potential impact of mixtures of environmentally relevant Arctic pollutants.

I’m contributing my expertise in mechanistic hazard assessment and next-generation risk assessment, particularly in using in vitro and in silico data to derive safe levels of exposure. I will develop specialized hazard assessment tools to assist risk assessors in identifying and evaluating potential environmental pollutants under conditions of data sparsity. I’m excited to help enable early warnings for emerging anthropogenic stressors that the arctic environment may get exposed to.