On January 20th 2017 Nolwenn Lemaïtre obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences (VUB) and Doctor in Marine Sciences (UBO-IUEM)
with the following doctoral thesis: Multi-proxy approach (234Th, Baxs) of export and remineralisation fluxes of carbon and biogenic elements associated ith the oceanic biological pump
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Frank Dehairs & Dr. Geraldine Sarthou
Joint PhD with Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
On December 19th 2016 Sofie De Clercq obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Reaching a Consensus under Multi-Agent Preferences
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Ann Nowé, Prof. Dr. Martine De Cock & Dr. Steven Schockaert
Joint PhD with Universiteit Gent
On December 2nd 2016 Tim Brys obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Reinforcement Learning with Heuristic Information
Promotor: Prof. dr. Ann Nowé
On November 9th 2016 Francisco Benitez Capistros obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Social and ecological systems dynamics of the Galapagos Islands: Participatory methodological approaches to support sustainability, conservation science and management.
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Nico Koedam & Prof. Dr. Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Joint PhD with ULB
On Novermber 7th 2016 Stepan Chernonozhkin obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Development and application of ICP - mass spectrometry based methods for spatially resolved, elemental and Fe, Ni isotopic analysis of metal and silicate meteoritic material
Joint PhD with Universiteit Gent
Promotoren: Prof. Dr. Frank Vanhaecke & Prof. Dr. Philippe Claeys
On October 21 2016 Ahmed A.O. TAYEH obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
A Dynamically Extensible Cross-Document Link Service
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Beat Signer
On October 18th Long LI obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Mapping and characterizing spectral evolution of lava flows with remote sensing: From field spectroscopy to satellite imagery
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Matthieu Kervyn
On September 30th 2016 Maya Van Campenhout obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Finitely generated algebras defined by homogeneous quadratic monomial relations and their underlying monoids
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Eric Jespers
On September 30th 2016 Dorina Seitaj obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Impact of cable bacteria on the biogeochemical cycling in a seasonally hypoxic coastal basin
Promotor: Prof. Dr. ir. Filip Meysman
On September 27th 2016 Ahmed Mohamed Mysara Abdelwahab obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
From Sequencing Reads to Microbial Diversity: Bioinformatic Algorithms for Processing Amplicon Sequencing Data
Joint PhD with KUL
Promotors: Prof. Dr. D. Charlier & Prof. Dr. J. Raes & Dr. P. Monsieurs