Thesis collaboration

Employees In Allerod Office. Mette Petersen MPE Morten Vammen Vendelboe MVVE NS 08461 Foto NIRAS

At NIRAS, you can write your thesis in collaboration with your advisor and one of our specialists. We are happy to make knowledge, data, and guidance available.

You can write your dissertation in collaboration with one of our specialists at NIRAS. Whether you are on a Master’s or Ph.D. programme, we are happy to make knowledge, data, and guidance available to you.

Make sure to contact us well in advance before you have to register your exam project, so that we can work out the best way for us to collaborate with you.

The NIRAS ALECTIA Foundation continuously support Ph.D. projects. You can read more about the foundation and some of the projects they have supported here.

Ongoing PhD collaborations

Karolina Reducha Andersen

The impact of offshore wind farms on marine biodiversity

The Ph.D. project aims to investigate how the massive expansion of offshore wind turbines will impact the marine benthic biodiversity, which is already under pressure, and aims to contribute to filling an important research knowledge gap.

Rick Pieter Kool RPKO 3 Web

Adaptive Coastal Planning under Climate Change Uncertainty

The focus of this industrial PhD project is to investigate novel dynamic concepts for long-term coastal planning and climate change adaptation, i.e. Dynamic Adaptive Pathway Planning (DAPP), integrating knowledge from the technical, economical and climate sciences.

EDIT Eva Kvist Campos 2

Interdisciplinary & systemic methods to develop sustainable mobility hubs

The business unit develops many projects related to hub development which are places to interchange transport and central points in urban or rural development. The Ph.D. project helps to be at the forefront of the industry trends and to shape new methods and tools for creating sustainable mobility strategies.

Completed PhD collaborations

Mia Heide

Operationalisation of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in absolute sustainability assessments of the building industry in Denmark

This Ph.D. considers absolute sustainability. It aims at answering when a building is good enough both considering social- and environmental sustainability across the life cycle. By translating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into a Danish building context, and creating a design tool with sub-goals, indicators and targets, it operationalizes the social aspects of sustainability while acknowledging the planetary limits.

Mathias Dahl DAHL

HYDROsim: Fast hydrological simulation for efficient groundwater management

The project aims to develop a fast method for computing the effects of changes in groundwater systems. This could be from wells, pollution, heavy precipitation etc.. This fast method should be developed by a combination of geostatistics, hydrological simulations and machine learning.

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