News from 2020

News from 2020

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null Congratulations Dr Jusnes!

Congratulations to Dr Karin Fjeldstad Jusnes who successfully defended her thesis June 19th. Karin did an excellent and comprehensive presentation of the trial lecture: “Sustainable Low-Carbon Footprint Production of Si and FeSi” followed by the presentation of her PhD thesis “Phase transformations and thermal degradation in industrial quartz”.

The doctoral work has been carried out at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, where Professor Merete Tangstad has been the candidate’s supervisor. Senior Research Scientist Eli Ringdalen, SINTEF Industry has been the candidate’s co-supervisor.

Jusnes did her PhD work in the associated SFI project, the IPN project of Elkem called High Temp Quartz.

Within the last years the knowledge on how quartz behave in the industrial Si/FeSi furnace has improved dramatically in many areas. Karin Jusnes work has contributed to the knowledge in quartz decrepitating as well as phase transformation during heating.

She will from the fall 2020 start to work at Finnfjord, and will hopeful be seen in the future SFI meetings.

The Assessment Committee has been:
•    Professor Mansoor Barati, University of Toronto, Canada
•    Associate Professor Songsheng Zheng, Xiamen University, China
•    Associate Professor Jafar Safarian, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, NTNU