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Table of Contents: • Senior Personnel • PhD Students • Technical Staff • Undergraduate Students • Alumni Senior Personnel Professor Johan Sjöblom  Johan Sjöblom has been Professor in surface and colloid chemistry and the Head of the Ugelstad Laboratory at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim from January 1st 2002. He was earlier Professor at the University of Bergen during the years from 1988-1999, and Chief Researcher at Statoils R&D Centre in the period 1998-2001. Sjöblom has served as Adjunct Professor of Colloid Chemistry and Materials Science at Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, and at the Technical University of Helsinki from 1992-1999. Sjöblom is the editor of 10 books, and the author or coauthor of more than 300 professional papers. He has educated 31 PhD's and 35 MSc's. Sjöblom is Editor-In-Chief (from 2005) for Journal of Dispersion Science and Technology, and previous Editorial Board Member of Colloids and Surfaces during the period 1993-2003. Sjöblom is also a member of the Advisory Board of Microporous and Mesoporous Materials. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Norwegian Chemical Society, and the Finnish Chemical Society. He is also elected Member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences and the Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland. Sjöblom received his PhD degree (1982) in physical chemistry from the Åbo Akademi, Finland. Sjöblom has been an industrial consultant in colloid chemistry since 1980 Professor Gisle Øye Gisle Øye started as a research scientist at the Ugelstad Laboratory March 1st 2002, and was appointed Professor from 2008. His main research interest is focused on aqueous systems related to petroleum production and processing. This included produced water management (interfacial properties, fluid characterisation and separation efficiency) and enhanced oil recovery methods (low salinity water flooding, surfactant flooding, wettability and interfacial properties). Dr. Øye has previously worked with preparation, functionalisation and characterisation of inorganic porous materials. He also received his doctoral degree on this subject at the University of Bergen in 1999. In the period 2000-2002 he worked with plasmachemical methods for surface modification at the University of Durham (England). Associate Professor Wilhelm Glomm
(CV)Wilhelm Glomm joined the Ugelstad Laboratory as a Ph.D. student May 1st 2003 to participate in the project "Scientific Design and Preparation of New Catalysts and Supports". Following his defense June 23rd 2004, Dr. Glomm joined the Ugelstad Laboratory as a post doc., before transitioning into his current position as an Associate Professor (from April 2006). His main research interests are soft condensed matter on surfaces, nanoplasmonics, targeted drug delivery/diagnostics, polymer nanocomposites and molecular spectroscopy. Wilhelm Glomm has previously worked with phase behavior of surfactant-polyelectrolyte-cosurfactant systems, and he received his Cand. Scient. on this subject from the University of Bergen in 2000. From January 2001 to April 2003, he worked as a graduate student at the Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, under the guidance of Dr. Stefan Franzen and Dr. Daniel L. Feldheim. His main project included design, characterization and cellular delivery of "intelligent" metallic nanoparticle drug carriers for targeted intracellular/nuclear delivery. Associate Professor Brian A. Grimes (CV)Brian Grimes has a background in mathematical modeling of electrochemical transport phenomena and transport phenomena in porous media. He obtained his Ph.D. in 2002 from the University of Missouri-Rolla under the supervision of Professor A.I. Liapis. Upon completion of his Ph.D., he obtained an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship and began his post-doc in Mainz, Germany under the supervision of Professor K.K. Unger. In 2007, he joined the Ugelstad laboratory. His current research involves constructing a multi-scale modeling framework for transport processes in colloidal dispersions which incorporated molecular and Stokesian dynamics simulations along with population balance modeling. Adjunct Professor Per Stenius Professor (emeritus) Per Stenius was born in 1938 in Helsinki, Finland. He graduated from Åbo Akademi (University), Turku (Åbo), Finland. He received hid Ph.D. degree from the same university and worked there as a teacher and acting professor from 1966-1977. He was the director of the Institute for Surface Chemistry (YKI), Stockholm 1977-1991, and Professor of Forest Product Chemistry at Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) from 1991 to April 2003. Professor Stenius was also Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway, from 1997-1999. He retired as chair at HUT in 2003, but retains research activities at HUT in addition to holding an Adjunct Professorship at the Ugelstad Laboratory, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim from September 2003. Professor Stenius is a member of the Finnish and Swedish Academies of Engineering Science as well as the Swedish Academy of Science. He has been a member of the board of several international associations in surface and colloid chemistry, and he has also served as President of the International Association of Colloid and Interface Science (1986-87), and of the European Colloid and Interface Society (1993-94). Professor Stenius has published about 320 scientific papers and edited several books in the field of applied surface and colloid science. His present research interests are in the field of surface and colloid science in forest products technology, in particular fibre surface properties, recycling of fibres, adhesion and surfactant/polymer interactions. Dr. Sébastien Simon
(CV)Sébastien Simon has joined the Ugelstad Laboratory as a post doc in February 2006. He is currently involved in 3 different research projects: JIP-1 (Study of basic components extracted from crude oils), JIP-2 (quantification of naphthenic acids in crude oils and deposits) and FACE (de-emulsification of crude oil emulsions). He has previously worked with the study of solution and interfacial properties of amphiphilic polysaccharides under the guidance of Dr. Guy Muller, Pr. Didier Le Cerf and Dr. Luc Picton and received his doctoral degree on this subject at the University of Rouen (France) in 2003. After a research assistant position in the University of Rouen, he worked for 16 months in the French Petroleum Institute (IFP, Rueil Malmaison, France) on the determination of rheological, emulsifying and adsorption properties of the higher molecular mass components of crude oils (asphaltenes) under the guidance of Research Engineer Loïc Barré. Dr. Kristofer Paso
Kristofer Paso joined Ugelstad as a Post-Doc in July of 2006. His current research interests involve developing an integrated approach to interfacial and surface processes in crude oil systems. Example systems include emulsions, catalysts, and reservoir minerals. Laboratory techniques of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and thermal gradient quartz crystal microscopy (TG-QCM) are used in the investigations. Dr. Sondre Volden SSondre Volden has a background in organic chemistry (Cand. Scient./Master of Science, Department of Chemistry, NTNU) and surface-, colloid- and polymer chemistry (PhD, Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU). He joined the Ugelstad laboratory as a PhD-student in 2004 and has, after completing his doctoral thesis in 2006, continued his work at Ugelstad as a post-doctoral fellow and researcher, investigating adsorption processes and photophysical properties of proteins and thermoresponsive polymers on nanoparticles and at various liquid and solid interfaces. Dr. Volden left the Ugelstad laboratory in July 2011 to work as research manager at MedXense AS. Dr. Bartlomiej Gawel Bartlomiej Gawel started as a research scientist at the Ugelstad Laboratory in March 1st 2009. He is currently working on interfacial characterisation of crude oils/produced water systems and studying influence of inorganic particles on the interfacial properties in the frame of the research project: Produced Water Management – fundamental understanding of the fluids. Dr. Gawel has previously worked at Ugelstad laboratory with preparation and characterisation of inorganic porous monolithic catalysts for liquid phase glucose oxidation in the frame of the TE-RENE-RES project financed by Polish-Norwegian Research Funds. He received his doctoral degree on structural characterisation of the crystalline materials form X-ray powder diffraction at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, in September 2008. Dr. Serkan Kelesoglu Serkan Kelesoglu completed his Master of Science degree in Physical Chemistry at Izmir Institute of Technology/Turkey in July 2007. The title of his thesis was "Comparative Adsorption Studies of Heavy Metal Ions on Chitin and Chitosan Biopolymers". He also worked as a researcher in project that titled “Determination of the Particle Interactions Rheology-Surface Roughness Relationship for Dental Ceramics”. All laboratory works were performed with advisory of Prof. Hürriyet Polat in Chemistry Department at Izmir Institute of Technoloy during 2005 - 2007. Serkan Kelesoglu joined the Ugelstad Laboratory as a PhD student in October 2007, in the project preliminary titled “Multiphase Flow Assurance Centre” (FACE). This project is a joint venture between SINTEF, IFE, NTNU, Ugelstad Laboratory and industrial partners. His contribution to the project mainly focuses on preparation of model fluids for crude oil emulsions. He is trying to mimic interfacial, rheological, stability, emulsion etc. properties of crude oils using synthetic oils, polymers, surfactants and colloidal particles. Dr. Jamilia O. Safieva (CV)Jamilia Safieva completed her Master of Science degree in the field of Biochemistry at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, in June 2004. The title of the thesis is "Investigation of Bacillus endospores enzymatic destruction by Atomic Force Microscopy ". She obtained her Ph.D in Physical Chemistry and Chemical Technology of Fuels and High-Energy Substances under the supervision of Professor Rustem Syunyaev and Professor Sergey Varfolomeev at the Institute of Biochemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, in April 2011. Thesis title is "Asphaltene adsorption on solid surfaces and their aggregation in petroleum dispersed systems". The PhD study has been carried out within a collaboration with Gubkin State Oil&Gas University, Moscow, Russia. During PhD studies she had an internship at Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, where she worked on modeling of asphaltene phase behavior. Within the collaboration with Gubkin University she worked on application of chemometric methods for qualitative composition analysis of petrochemical products. Jamilia Safieva joined the Ugelstad Laboratory as a post-doctoral fellow in August 2011. Her research is associated with a joint industrial project co-funded by the Research Council of Norway and industry which is titled: "Shut-in and Restart of Gelled Oil Pipelines: Software Module Development". Dr. Gurvinder Singh Gurvinder Singh has a background in materials science and received Ph.D. from iNANO Center, University of Aarhus, Denmark in 2010. Before joining a Ugelstad lab in October 2011, he has worked as Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Dr. Rafal Klajn at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. The main areas of his research are chemical synthesis of metal and metal oxide colloidal nanoparticles, self-assembly of nanoparticles into complex structures and understanding the driving forces behind them, protein patterning by colloidal lithography and use of functionalized nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Dr. Galina Rodionova Galina Rodionova completed her master’s degree in the field of Biotechnology (Wide Profile Chemistry) from the Arkhangelsk State Technical University, Russia in June 2008. She obtained her Ph.D in Chemical Process Technology (NTNU, 2011) under the supervision of Professor Øyvind Gregersen. The PhD study has been carried out within the scope of the joint project “Fiber based packaging materials: Development of innovative and sustainable barrier concepts (SustainBarrier)” initiated by the PFI, SINTEF and NTNU. Galina joined the Ugelstad laboratory as a post doctoral fellow in February 2012. Her research focuses on preparation and characterization of the synthetic reference fluids for crude oils and their emulsions. PhD Students Ph. D. student Andreas L. Nenningsland Andreas Lyng Nenningsland completed his master's degree at the Department of Chemical Engineering, NTNU in 2009, working on determining the content of basic components in crude oils. He joined the Ugelstad laboratory in august 2009 as a Ph.D. under the supervision of Prof. Johan Sjöblom, and is currently studying emulsion stabilization and interfacial rheology of asphaltenes and an asphaltene model compound. Andreas is 26 years old, looking for a wife around 23-26. Needs to be competent at cooking, house cleaning and enjoy long evening walks in the forest. Norwegian or English skills not neccessary, since conversations will be kept to a minimum. Ph. D. student Sina Maria Lystvet Sina Maria Lystvet started her PhD work at Ugelstad Laboratory in March 2009. The work will consist of studies of some selected proteins, and their interaction with some interfaces. Included in the work will be to observe how these interactions change when the proteins are bound to gold nanoparticles. The preliminary thematic title of the thesis is "Interfaces as 2D Folding Templates for Polyleptides". Her Master Thesis was about biocatalysis, and was completed in December 2008. The master work was performed at the chemistry department, NTNU. Ph. D. student Mehdi Benmekhbi Mehdi Benmekhbi completed his M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI), France in August 2009. He started his Ph.D. work at the Ugelstad Laboratory in October 2009 under the supervision of Professor Johan Sjöblom. His research focuses on investigating the properties of the interfaces of surfactant stabilized emulsion droplets. This work is part of the “Multiphase Flow Assurance Centre” (FACE), a joint venture between SINTEF, IFE, NTNU, Ugelstad Laboratory and industrial partners. Mehdi is a cool, calm and kind guy. He is in a relationship with a gorgeous, smart girl. Only thing that seems to be missing in his life is a real car. Needs to be visible (i.e. bigger than a bug), not older than 5, non-French and cool with being driven in the snow. A car that won't ask for gas too often will be favored. It is not necessary for it to know how to honk, Mehdi has a powerful voice. As an avid coin collector and aficionado, Mehdi would also require the car to have an ample compartment for coins - for toll booth purposes as well as personal enjoyment. Ph. D. student Mona Eftekhardadkhah Mona Eftekhardadkhah completed her master’s degree in the field of wastewater treatment using the flotation process (computational fluid dynamic modeling) from Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST), Iran in August 2009. She started her Ph.D. work in the Ugelstad Laboratory in June 2010 under supervision of Professor Gisle Øye. The Ph.D. work is conducting on fundamental understanding of fluids in order to use the knowledge in wastewater management filed. The main focus of the thesis is study the colloidal interactions between gas/oil/water phases in flotation process. The project is a joint project initiated by NTNU, Statoil, Total, Conoco Philips, MI-Epcon and Eni norge. Ph. D. student Yansong Zhao Yansong Zhao joined Ugelstad Laboratory of NTNU as a PhD student in July 2011. He mainly focuses on gelation and rheological models development of waxy crude oil. He studied as a master student in Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences between August 2008 and June 2011 and received his master degree in Chemical Engineering in Spring semester of 2011. He studied for 4 year in Henan University from 2004 and received his bachelor degree in Chemical Engineering in Spring semester of 2008. Ph. D. student Karina Kovalchuk (CV)Karina Kovalchuk obtained her master degree in Chemical Engineering at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Cape Town, South Africa) in 2011. Dissertation was a part of industrial project ”Emulsion Development” sponsored by African Explosives Limited Company. Karina has a background in organic, colloid and computational chemistry. She joined the group in March 2011 and started her PhD project under supervision of Associate Professor Brian Grimes. Her PhD work is focused on molecular dynamic simulations of liquid-liquid interfaces and interfacial mass transport in emulsion systems. Ph. D. student Divina Kaombe Divina Kaombe completed her Master’s degree in December, 2008 at University of Reading, England. Her master thesis was based on mineral partitioning in milk at higher temperature; microfiltration, ultrafiltration and dialysis techniques were used for investigation. Divina joined NTNU as a PhD student in November, 2010; the major part of her work has been undertaken at Ugelstad Laboratory under co-supervision of Associate Professor Wilhelm Glomm. Her PhD work is focused on studying stability and phase separation tendency of pyrolysis oil (bio oil). This is a joint project between NTNU and PFI." Ph. D. student Lalit Kumar Ph. D. student Albert Barrabino Ponce Albert Barrabino has a background of Chemical Engineering in the University of Barcelona in 2011. He wrote his Master Thesis “Synthesis of Mesoporous Silica Particles with Control of both Pore Diameter and Particle Size” at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 2011. Albert joined Ugelstad Laboratory in January 2012 as a PhD Student under the supervision of Johan Sjöblom. His main area of research is the study of emulsions using the low field NMR technique. Technical Staff Camilla I. Dagsgård - Laboratory Manager, Head Engineer Camilla I. Dagsgård completed her Cand. Scient degree in Biotechnology in 2001 and has years of experience from laboratory work with analytical chemistry and microbiology. When starting to work as an engineer at Ugelstad Laboratory in 2009 she came from the quality control department of GE Healthcare. Camilla I. Dagsgård is now the Laboratory Manager of the lab. Caterina Lesaint, Engineer Caterina Lesaint has been working as an engineer in Ugelstad laboratory since 2006 and has been a part of many of our big research projects. Signe Håkonsen, Engineer Signe Håkonsen has been working as an engineer in Ugelstad laboratory since 2006 and is working with both routine analyses and research projects. Bicheng Gao, Engineer Bicheng Gao finished his master’s degree in Chemical Engineering at NTNU in 2010 and has worked as a lab engineer at Ugelstad Laboratory since then. He is working on both routine analyses and research projects. Undergraduate Students Signe Marie Nielsen Stavnes Hassan Ali Sulalit Bandyopadhyay Elena Morán Rico Vitor Garcia Alumni Professor EmeritusPreben Cato Mørk– Professor Emeritus 2007 Arvid Berge – Professor Emeritus 2004 Post Docs and ResearchersIva Kralova– Laboratory Manager/Senior Engineer 2006-2011 – Career after NTNU: Fan Yanru – Post Doc 2007-2011 – Career after NTNU: Erland L. Nordgård – Researcher 2009-2010 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Resman Helene K. Magnusson – Researcher 2005-2008 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry David Arla – Post Doc 2006-2007 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Petroleum Research Pål Viggo Hemmingsen – Researcher 2002-2006 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, StatoilHydro ASA Judit Adam – Post Doc 2006 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Energy Research Maria Häger – Post Doc 2004-2006 – Career after NTNU: Sandviken, Gävle, Sweden Marit-Helen Glomm Ese – Researcher 2003-2006 – Career after NTNU: Research Manager, SINTEF Energy Research Tom-Nils Nilsen – Senior Researcher 2005 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, BYGGFORSK Gisle Øye – Researcher 2002-2005 – Career: Professor, NTNU Harald Kallevik – Post Doc 2001-2002 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil Øystein Sæther – Post Doc 2001-2002 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil Linn Bergflødt – Post Doc 2001-2002 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Statoil Ph.D. studentsNils van der Tuuk Opedal– Title of thesis:"NMR as a tool to follow destabilization of water-in-oil emulsions" – Defense of thesis: September 30th 2011 – Career after NTNU: Klodian Xhanari – Title of thesis:"Nanosized Cellulose Fibrils as Stabilizers of Emulsions" – Defense of thesis: January 28th 2011 – Career after NTNU: Serkan Kelesoglu – Title of thesis:"Flow Behaviour of Water-in-North Sea Acidic Crude Oil Emulsions and Preparation of Synthetic Reference Acidic Oils and Their Emulsions" – Defense of thesis: December 20th 2010 – Career after NTNU: Post Doc, Ugelstad Laboratory Asal Amiri – Title of thesis:"Rheology of silica-based dispersions and Cross-sectional modelling of settling slurries" – Defense of thesis: October 7th 2010 – Career after NTNU: Umer Farooq – Title of thesis:"Characterisation of crude oil-water and solid-water interfaces and adsorption/desorption properties of crude oil fractions. The effect of low salinity water and pH" – Defense of thesis: September 30th 2010 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Materials and Chemistry Erland Nordgård – Title of thesis:"Model Compounds for Heavy Crude Oil Components and Tetrameric Acids. Characterization and Interfacial Behaviour" – Defense of thesis: September 7th 2009 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, RESMAN Martin Smestad Foss – Title of thesis:"The Effect of Oil on Carbon Dioxide Corrosion Inhibition on Carbon Steel - Potential for Improved Corrosion Protection" – Defense of thesis: January 30th 2009 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Institute for Energy technology (IFE) Ann-Mari Dahl Hanneseth – Title of thesis:"An Experimental Study of Tetrameric Naphthenic Acids at w/o Interfaces" – Defense of thesis: January 23rd 2009 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Statoil Anne Silset – Title of thesis:"Emulsions (w/o and o/w) of Heavy Crude Oils. characterization, Stabilization, Destabilization and Produced Water Quality" – Defense of thesis: November 13th 2008 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Statoil Dorota Dudasova – Title of thesis:"Characterization of solid particle suspensions with organic coatings in oilfield produced water" – Defense of thesis: September 19th 2008 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Statoil Simone Less – Title of thesis:"Mechanisms of water-in-crude oil emulsion formation, stabilization and resolution by electrostatic means" – Defense of thesis: June 25th 2008 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Saudi Aramco Ingvild A. Johnsen – Title of thesis:"The impact of dissolved hemicelluluses on adsorption of wood resin to TMP fines" – Defense of thesis: October 12th 2007 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, PFI Martin Andresen – Title of thesis:"Surface Modification of Microfibrillated Cellulose" – Defense of thesis: August 31st 2007 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Borregaard Lignotech Martin Fossen – Title of thesis:"Aggregation, Interfacial Properties and Structural Characteristics of Asphaltene Solubility Fractions" – Defense of thesis: August 28th 2007 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Petroleum Research Sondre Volden – Title of thesis:"Preparation and Characteristics of Novel Silica-Based Materials and Adsorbed Macromolecules" – Defense of thesis: December 19th 2006 – Career after NTNU: Post Doc, Ugelstad Laboratory Shukun Chen – Title of thesis:"Rheological Properties of Water in Oil Emulsions and Particulate Suspensions" – Defense of thesis: October 6th 2006 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil Andreas Hannisdal – Title of thesis:"Particle-Stabilized Emulsions and Heavy Crude Oils. Characterization, Stability Mechanisms and Interfacial Properties" – Defense of thesis: June 15th 2006 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Aibel Torbjørn Vrålstad – Title of thesis: "Synthesis and characterization of cobalt-containing mesoporous model catalysts." – Defense of thesis: December 2nd 2005. – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, SINTEF Petroleum Research Øystein Brandal – Title of thesis:"Interfacial (o/w) Properties of Naphthenic Acids and Metal Naphthenates, Naphthenic Acid Characterization and Metal Naphthenate Inhibition." – Defense of thesis: June 29th 2005. – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil Magne Kawai Knag –Title of thesis: "Surfactant Aggregation in Solution and on Metal Surfaces and the Impact on Corrosion Rate." – Defense of thesis: June 23rd 2005 – Career after NTNU: Research Scientist, Origo-Process Wilhelm Robert Glomm – Title of thesis: Preparation and Characterization of Nanosized Structures with Applications in Bioscience and Materials – Defense of thesis: June 23rd 2004 – Career after NTNU: Associate Professor, NTNU Trond Erik Havre – Title of thesis: Formation of Calcium Naphthenate in Water/Oil Systems, Naphthenic Acid Chemistry and Emulsion Stability – Defence of thesis: November 28th 2002 – Career after NTNU: Senior Chemist, Origo-Process Narve Aske – Title of thesis: Characterisation of Crude Oil Components, Asphaltene Aggregation and Emulsion Stability by means of Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis – Defence of thesis: September 23rd 2002 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil Inge Harald Auflem – Title of thesis: Influence of Asphaltene Aggregation and Pressure on Crude Oil Emulsion Stability – Defence of thesis: August 15th 2002 – Career after NTNU: Senior Engineer, Statoil |
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