Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

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• Microbiota interactions with plant bioactives in the context of gut-liver axis: towards the development of a small intestine model

  Oct 02

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Auriane Bron

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Tom Van de Wiele (Promotor admin), BW25 - Prof. dr. Stéphanie Blanquet-Diot (Promotor), Université Clermont Auvergne, Frankrijk

• Influence of Lignin Extraction on the Production of Chemical Building Blocks via Pyrolysis

  Oct 02

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Tamara Menares Tapia

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: chemie en bioprocestechnologie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Frederik Ronsse (Promotor admin), BW24 - Prof. dr. Luis Ernesto Arteaga Pérez (Promotor), University of Bio-Bio, Concepcion, Chili

• The rich landscape of iterated simplicity: cellular automata and network automata

  Oct 02

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Michiel Rollier

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Wiskundige Modellering

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Jan Baetens (Promotor admin) (BW26) - Dr. Aisling Daly (Promotor) (BW26) - Prof. Bruno Odemir Martinez (Promotor) (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazilië)

• Effects of urbanisation on the microclimate and biodiversity associated with large solitary trees

  Oct 07

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Astrid Van den Bossche

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Natuurlijke Rijkdommen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Pieter De Frenne (Promotor admin), BW20 - Prof. dr. Koenraad Van Meerbeek (Promotor), KU Leuven - Dr. Thomas Vanneste (Promotor), BW20 - Dr. Arno Thomaes (Promotor), Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek

• Development of superior industrial Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains for 2G bioethanol production

  Oct 14

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Bart Thevelein

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Tom Desmet (Promotor admin), BW25 - Dr. Mekonnen Demeke (Promotor), NovelYeast

• Integrating fatty acid dynamics, epigenetic regulation and environmental drivers in the intertidal copepod: Platychelipus littoralis (Harpacticoida, Laophontidae)

  Oct 14

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Iene Herman

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: mariene wetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Jana Asselman, BW22 - prof. dr. Marleen De Troch, WE11

• Control of Lotka-Volterra systems via metapopulation design.

  Oct 15

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Anju Susan Anish

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Wiskundige Modellering

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Shodhan Rao (Promotor admin), BW26 - Prof. dr. Bernard De Baets (Promotor), BW26

• Towards sustainable cell and gene therapy manufacturing: Bayesian optimisation, hybrid modelling and AQbD-driven soft sensing as enabling methodologies

  Oct 15

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Evan Claes

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Jan Verwaeren (Promotor admin), BW26 - Prof. dr. Thomas De Beer (Promotor), FW02 - Dr. Jan Schrooten (Promotor), Antleron NV

• Hindgut fermentation in weaned piglets: linking microbial enterotype-like clusters to volatile fatty acid phenotypes

  Oct 16

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Chengcheng Li

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Dierwetenschappen en Aquacultuur

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Jeroen Degroote (Promotor admin), BW22 - Dr. Stijn Heirbaut (Promotor), BW22

• Disentangling the structural and biophysical mechanisms of lianas on tropical forest microclimate

  Oct 21

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Kasper Coppieters

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Hans Verbeeck (Promotor admin), BW20 - Dr. Félicien Meunier (Promotor), BW20 - Dr. ir. Marco Visser (Promotor), Universiteit Leiden, Nederland

• Measuring bee health within biodiversity gradients of plant-pollinator networks

  Oct 21

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Louella Buydens

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Ivan Meeus (Promotor admin), BW21 - Dr. Niels Piot (Promotor), BASF

• Towards Sustainable Agro-Waste Valorisation: Energy and Resource Recovery from Tomato Plant Biomass and Dairy Manure

  Oct 22

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Shruti Katti

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Erik Meers (Promotor admin), BW24 - Prof. dr. ir. Steven De Meester (Promotor), BW24

• Drinking water from source to tap: Unravelling microbiome dynamics through monitoring and novel biological indicators

  Oct 22

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Thomas Pluym

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Bart De Gusseme (Promotor admin), BW25 - Prof. dr. ir. Nico Boon (Promotor), BW25 - Prof. dr. Ellen Decaestecker (Promotor), KU Leuven - Prof. dr. Klaus Schwenk (Promotor), University of Koblenz – Landau, Duitsland

• Fusion of Vis-NIR, Micro-NIR, and Gamma-Ray Sensing Technologies for Agricultural Soil Measurement: A Case Study on Soil Carbon Stock Estimation

  Oct 23

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Jiang Liu

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: landbouw

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Abdul Mouazen (Promotor admin), BW20 - Prof. dr. Muhammad Abdul Munnaf (Promotor), Universiteit Wageningen, Nederland

• Beneath the surface: the role of the aquatic environment in antibiotic pollution and resistance dynamics

  Oct 26

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Laurens Tuts

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Nico Boon (Promotor admin), BW25 - Prof. dr. Marc Heyndrickx (Promotor), DI05 - Dr. Geertrui Rasschaert (Promotor), ILVO - Dr. Ilse Becue (Promotor), ILVO

• Towards Value-Oriented Circular Economy Indicators: Integrating Material Quality into Circularity Assessment

  Nov 12

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Kobe Vulsteke

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Jo Dewulf (Promotor admin), BW24 - Prof. dr. ir. Sophie Huysveld (Promotor), BW24 - Prof. dr. ir. Gwenny Thomassen (Promotor), VUB