On November 30th 2015 Pallab Bhowmick obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
The role of structural disorder in the degradation signal in the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Peter Tompa
Co-promotor: Dr. Mainak Guharoy
On November 25th 2015 Joke Belza obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Science with the following doctoral thesis:
Petrography and Geochemistry of Ejecta Deposits from the K/Pg Boundary Chicxulub crater (Yucatan, Mexico)
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Philippe Claeys and Prof. Dr. Frank Vanhaecke
Jury members : E. Keppens (president), M. Elskens (secretary), Steven Goderis (VUB), Johan De Grave (UGent), Christian Koeberl (Univ. Vienna), Jan Smit (VUA), Ph. Claeys and Frank Vanhaecke (as advisors).
Joint phD between Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Universiteit Gent.
On October 28th 2015 Jozef Dingemans obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Adaptation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to the cystic fibrosis lung and the role of shear stress in disrupting alginate matrix biofilms
Promotors: Prof. Dr. em. Pierre Cornelis & Prof. Dr. Daniël Charlier
On October 7th 2015 Maria Venetia Apostolopoulou obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Evaluation of Posidonia oceanica as a biomonitoring organism to assess oil pollution
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Frank Dehairs
On September 25th 2015 Audrey Rivière obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Bifidogenic and butyrogenic effects of prebiotic arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides, a kinetic and molecular approach
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Luc De Vuyst
On September 16th 2015 Muayad Abusaa obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR IN SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:
Simultaneous Two State Operation in Quantum Dot Lasers
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Jan Danckaert & Prof. Dr. Evgeny Viktorov
On September 11th 2015 Dries Harnie obtained the academic degree of DOCTOR IN SCIENCES with the following doctoral thesis:
Blame Prediction: Early detection of type errors in dynamically typed programming languages
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang De Meuter
On September 10th 2015 Güryel Songül obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Computational Analysis of Graphene: From Intrinsic Properties to Nanocomposites
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Paul Geerlings, Prof. Dr. Frank De Proft and Prof. Dr. Gregory Van Lier
On September 10th 2015 Ronny Merken obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Roots and shoots of the European Nature and biodiversity legislation: Its origin and relevance in a transboundary, migratory and agricultural perspective
Promotor: Prof. Dr. N. Koedam
On August 25th 2015 Liu Han obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Characterization of a transcription factor involved in the regulation of β-alanine metabolism in the hyperthermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Eveline Peeters & Prof. Dr. Daniël Charlier
