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
On September 26th 2016 Alexandra Vandervelde obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Mechanisms of transcription regulation in prokaryotic toxin-antitoxin modules
Promotors: Prof. Dr. ir. R. Loris & Prof. Dr. J. Danckaert & Prof. Dr. H. De Greve
On September 15th 2016 Amanda Sparkes obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Bio-engineering Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Nanobodies as Tools to Monitor Myeloid Cells and Modulate Inflammatory Responses during Disease States
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Patrick De Baetselier, Prof. Dr. ir. Geert Raes & Dr. ir. Benoît Stijlemans
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
