Anders Blomberg Foto: Sonja Balci/OsloMet
Master’s Thesis of the Year: Anders Blomberg Contributes to the Fight Against Ocean Plastic
Anders Blomberg has won the award for Master’s Thesis of the Year 2025 for his work on developing an affordable tool that can sort plastic from the ocean.
Anders Blomberg, a student in the master’s programme in Applied Computer and Information Technology, specialising in Robotics and Cybernetics (oslomet.no), was awarded the prize for Master’s Thesis of the Year 2025. In his thesis, he worked on improving an affordable tool that can sort plastic from the ocean.
OsloMet’s jury wrote, among other things, that “as a master’s thesis… the winner’s work stands out as a rare independent contribution of knowledge to the development of tools for international recycling” in its reasoning for awarding the prize.
The thesis is published in OsloMet’s Open Digital Archive (ODA). Evaluation of Machine Learning Methods for Polymer Classification from Near-Infrared Spectral Data.
About the Master’s Prize
OsloMet’s Education Committee (ansatt.oslomet.no) served as the jury, and received nominations from supervisors and examiners.
Read more about the criteria for the prize (ansatt.oslomet.no).
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