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14/09/2016 - 11:15

On September 6th 2016 Raluca FLOREA obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Targeting Plasmodium falciparum PfSUB-2 and VAR2CSA proteins to gain new insights in malaria-host interactions.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Stefan Magez

08/09/2016 - 14:00

At the last European Association of Archaeologists meeting held in Vilnius, Lithuania, Christophe Snoeck was interviewed by “Deutschlandfunk” (nationwide German radio broadcast) to talk about his recent research on the isotopic studies of cremated remains. He discusses the process of cremation itself as well as the possbility to use strontium isotopes on cremated remains for mobility studies.
The interview was aired at “Deutschlandfunk” (nationwide radio broadcast, ~ the “German BBC”) at the daily science show “Forschung aktuell” on Friday 2 September 2016

Listen to the inverview here

24/08/2016 - 16:30

On August 24th 2016 Florence Kauffmann obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Exploring the immunopathology during Leishmania donovani and Leishmania major infections.
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Stefan Magez & Prof. Dr. Carl De Trez

19/08/2016 - 17:00

On August 19th 2016 Henning Harth obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Microbial species diversity, community dynamics and metabolite formation kinetics of spontaneous barley, teff, and oat sourdough productions
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Luc De Vuyst

09/08/2016 - 14:45

At the International Conference of the Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health, recently organized in Brussels, Sebastiaan van de Velde won the prize for best PhD student oral presentation.

01/07/2016 - 10:15

The 2016 “Solvay Prize” is awarded to Dr. Bert Wouters (promotor Prof. dr. S. Eeltink) for his work on groundbreaking research on the development of a microfluidic chip for spatial three dimensional chromatography.

30/06/2016 - 17:00

On June 30th 2016 Nicolay Jens obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Purity Analysis for Higher-Order Imperative Languages: An Abstract Machine Approach
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter & Prof. Dr. Coen De Roover

30/06/2016 - 15:00

On June 30th 2016 Judith Okello obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
The role of disturbances in mangrove wood formation and forest structure: effect of large sedimentation events
Joint PhD with Université Libre de Bruxelles
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Nico Koedam & Prof. Dr. Farid Dahdouh-Guebas

29/06/2016 - 12:00

At the latest edition in San Fransisco, Prof. Dr. ir. Gert Desmet (Department of Chemical Engineering, CHIS) was appointed as one of 10 members of the permanent scientific committee of the “International Symposium on High Performance Liquid Phase Separations and Related Techniques” conference series (in short: HPLC conference series).

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