On February 27 2018 Sandra Trullemans obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Enabling and Informing the Design of Cross-Media Personal Information Management Solutions
Promotor: Prof. dr. Beat Signer
On February 23 2018 Tom Willemse obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Peptide diversification: Palladium-catalyzed derivatization of peptidic lead compounds in aqueous media
Joint PhD with Universiteit Antwerpen
Promotors: Prof. dr. Steven Ballet & Prof. dr. Bert Maes
On February 20th 2018 Nandita Bodra obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the follwowing doctoral thesis:
How Arabidopsis thaliana dehydroascorbate reductase 2 and mitogen activated kinase 4 cope with cysteine sulfur oxidation
Joint PhD with Universiteit Gent
Promotors: Prof. dr. Joris Messens & Prof. dr. Frank Van Breusegem
On February 8th 2018 Steven De Gieter obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Structural and Functional Characterization of the A. thaliana Anaphase Promoting Complex/Cyclosome
Promotor: Prof. dr. Remy Loris
On February 1 2018 Xuefeng LI obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Marine iron biogeochemistry under a changing climate: impact on the phytoplankton and the diazotroph communities
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Marc Elskens & Prof. Dr. Lei Chou
Joint PhD with Université Libre de Bruxelles
On January 31 2018 Yaozhong HU obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Intrabody targeting hypoxia inducible factor-1α mediates transcriptional downregulation of target genes related to solid tumors
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Serge Muyldermans
Joint PhD with Tianjin University (China)
On January 30 2018 Dominic Smith obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Search for new physics in sqrt(s)= 13 TeV proton-proton collisions, using jet substructure techniques with the CMS detector at the LHC
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Freya Blekman & Prof. Dr. Henning Flaecher
Joint PhD with University of Bristol
On January 26 2018 Isis Van Parijs obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Search for tZq Flavour Changing Neutral Currents in top production and decays with the CMS experiment
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Jorgen D'Hondt
On January 22 2018 Isabelle De Buryn obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Search for dark matter in the monojet and trackless jets final states with the CMS detector at the LHC
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Steven Lowette
On January 15 2018 Joar Esteban Pinto Torres obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Glycolytic enzymes from Trypanosoma as targets for parasite detection and control
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Stafan Magez