Post-Doc., PhD students and Master students will graduate and therewith contribute to the writing of scientific publications and the development of innovations all along the life of the Centre. Research areas will cover all fields relevant to CenBio (thermal conversion, biomass supply, emissions, etc).

The Bioenergy Graduate School will, at any time during the duration of CenBio, consist of 10-12 PhD students, 8-10 Master students (per year) and their supervisors with coordinated research and training activities. The activities of the Graduate School will, whenever possible, be open to students from other institutions. 

The activities of the Graduate School will include: study and research visits, intensive courses, seminars and information sharing.

The first gathering for PhD students and Post-Docs took place in January 2010 and two more is scheduled for 2011. Also one or more short courses will be offered.

Examples on ongoing PhD-projects are:

• Development of decision support tools for biomass production (UMB)
• Hybrid life cycle analysis of solid bio-fuel systems (NTNU)
• Optimization of biogas production (From biomass to biogas project) (UMB)
• Estimating forest biomass components using airborne laser scanning (UMB)
• Experimental studies on two stage combustion of biomass (NTNU)
• Economic analyses of use of forest and wood products in Norway to reduce the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (GHG) (UMB)
• High temperature filtration of biomass combustion and gasification processes (NTNU)
• Ecological modelling related to increased biomass removal in forests in Norway (UMB)
• Experimental studies on biomass torrefaction and gasification (NTNU)