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Conferred PhD degrees

Conferred PhD degrees 2026

Economics and Business Economics

04-01-2026 – Magnus Bjørn Frische – Dissertation: PRICING GREEN ASSETS
16-03-2026 - Camille Pedersen – Dissertation: ”Statistical Modeling of Performance in Innovation and the Creative Industries”
07-04-2026 - Laust Ladegård Særkjær – Dissertation: ”Identifying Monetary Policy and Uncertainty Shocks. Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics”
28-04-2026 - Angelina Odintsova – Dissertation: ”FIRM ORGANIZATION, WAGES, AND INEQUALITY”
11-05-2026 - Melanie Averhoff – Dissertation: ”RISKS WITH STOCHASTIC PARAMETERS”

Psychology and Behavioural Sciences

10-02-2026 - Katrine Komischke – Dissertation: ”When grief becomes complicated - Toward a deeper understanding of prolonged grief disorder, its co-occurrence with other complicated grief reactions, and treatment strategies”
16-03-2026 - Terese Hartmann-Petersen – Dissertation: ”Becoming Allies: Mobilizing Bystander Interventions to Prevent Sexual Violence among Danish Upper Secondary Students”
22-04-2026 - Madeline Marie Marello Havn – Dissertation: ”Non-Response Bias - Recruitment and Retainment of Longitudinal Survey Samples for Clinical Researchers”
30-04-2026 - Ana Paula Goncalves Donate – Dissertation: “Affective Vulnerability and Health Correlates of Cannabis Use: Insights From Between- and Within-Person Approaches”
05-05-2026 - Sofie Møgelberg Knutzen – Dissertation: ”Optimizing fully automated smartphone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia: Efficacy and active ingredients“
08-05-2026 - Arthur Bran Herbener – Dissertation: ”On the active ingredients associated with artificial therapists”
26-05-2026 - Andrea Søndergaard Poulsen – Dissertation: ”New avenues in the study of pain in Parkinson’s disease: Advancing knowledge of patient perspectives, experimental pain, and treatment”
15-06-2026 - Marie Tranberg Hansen – Dissertation: ”Suicidality, Narrative Identity, and Mental Time Travel - Continuity Between Past, Present, and Future Selves”

Business Development and Technology

25-02-2026 - Thuvarakai Kandasamy – Dissertation: “Firefighting, Futuring and Everything in Between: Organisational Resilience in SMEs”
24-04-2026 - Kristoffer Lerche – Dissertation: “From Innovation Work to Legitimate Practice: The Role of Innovation Management Systems”

Management

06-02-2026 – Caroline Kjær Børsting – Dissertation: Selective Information Processing in Moral and Social Decision-Making: Mechanisms and Contextual Modulators
07-05-2026 - Alexandra Valencia Zapata – Dissertation: ”Common Resources Management: How Organization Design May Aid in Fostering Collective Action?”
11-05-2026 - Anna Malene Jensen – Dissertation: “Management Control and Mental Health: Implications for Psychological Safety and Employee Stress”
26-05-2026 - Maja Agerbo Ejsing – Dissertation: ”Understanding decentralized crisis management and crisis communication: practices, challenges, and implications for crisis management teams, middle managers, and employees”
11-06-2026 - Nina Melanie Mølgaard Nielsen – Dissertation: ”The Attentional Demands of Digital Life: Situational, Cognitive, and Individual Mechanisms of Social Media Distraction”

Law

09-06-2026 - Ida Møller-Skuldbøl – Dissertation: ”Internationale børnebortførelser fra et dansk perspektiv - Med fokus på familieretlige og udvalgte straffe- og straffeprocesretlige problemstillinger”

Political Science

05-01-2026 – Ane Edslev Konradsen – Dissertation: Conflict over Urban Informality: Meanings of Tax and Renewal in Dar es Salaam’s Markets
04-03-2026 - Tim Lars Allinger – Dissertation: ”The Boundaries of Democracy: Institutions, Representation, and Violence Against Minorities”
17-03-2026 - Louise Halberg Nielsen – Dissertation: ”Why women don’t aspire to run for office Perceived gendered barriers and politicians as exemplars”
23-03-2026 - Ida Vind Petersen – Dissertation: ”Collective Responsibility and Liability to Harm in War”
24-04-2026 - Anders Leth Nielsen – Dissertation: ”Policymaking and Implementation in a Double Democracy“
20-05-2026 - Rasmus Kappelgaard Gustafsson – Dissertation: ”Lifestyle Cues in Politicians’ Communication: Class Signals, Representation, and Voter Response”
26-05-2026 - MJ Maryana Balezina – Dissertation: ”Categorically (Trans)Fixed: Attitudes Towards Trans Inclusion in Sports”
02-06-2026 - Emilie Kristine Dyrlev – Dissertation: ”Patients Left to Their Own Devices? How Digital Psychiatry Reconfigures Expertise between Patients and Professionals”

Social Science and Business

22-06-2026 - Sif Anna Ingibergsdottir Mogensen – Dissertation: ”AMBIVALENT NAVIGATIONS Affective and Relational Dimensions of Women’s Lives Across Harm Reduction, Drug Use, Housing Insecurity, and Gendered Violence”

Previously conferred PhD degrees

Revised 24.06.2026

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