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
On January 12 2018 Sotirios Gkekas obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Unravelling the structure and function of the bacterial persistence regulator ObgE
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Wim Versées
On January 11 2018 Imke Van Den Broeck obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Bioengineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
The assembly and biotechnological application of the bacterial functional amyloid curli
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Han Remaut
On January 9 2018 Liesbet Jacobs obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Landslides in the Rwenzori Mountains: field-based characterisation and susceptibility assessments in a data-scarce tropical environment
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Matthieu Kervyn & Dr. Olivier Dewitte