Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

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• Integrated modeling of nutrient emissions to air and water: Synergetic solutions for the European future

  Jun 01

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Aslihan Ural Janssen

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Erik Meers (Promotor admin), BW24 - Dr. Maryna Strokal (Promotor), Universiteit Wageningen

• Combining hydrothermal carbonization and biogas production for chicken manure valorization

  Jun 03

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Leyanet Odales Bernal

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: chemie en bioprocestechnologie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Frederik Ronsse (Promotor admin), BW24 - Prof. dr. Ernesto Luis Barrera Cardoso (Promotor), University of Sancti Spiritus, Cuba

• An integrated near-infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI), chemometrics, and machine-learning framework for detecting and quantifying adulteration in olive oil, saffron, and coffee

  Jun 04

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Derick Nyabera Malavi

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: levensmiddelenwetenschappen en voeding

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Sam Van Haute (Promotor admin), BW23 - KR01 - Prof. dr. ir. Katleen Raes (Promotor), BW23

• Effects of micropollutants on microalgal-bacterial aerobic granular sludge performance and downstream biomass digestibility

  Jun 05

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Moein Besharatifard

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Milieuwetenschappen en technologie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Di Wu (Promotor admin), BW24, KR01 - Prof. dr. ir. Jo De Vrieze (Promotor), BW25

• Valorization of poultry manure through anaerobic co-digestion with locally available organic waste - an integrated approach for bioenergy production and nutrient recovery in a circular economy framework

  Jun 08

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Anna Jasińska

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Erik Meers (Promotor admin), BW24 - dr. Anna Grosser (Promotor), Częstochowa University of Technology, Polen

• Electrochemical conversion of lithium salts into battery precursors

  Jun 10

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Guillaume Henderson

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Nico Boon (Promotor admin), BW25 - Dr. ir. Luiza Bonin (Promotor), BW25 - Dr. Wouter Schutyser (Promotor), Umicore Corporate Research & Development

• An experimental and mechanistic modelling framework to determine optimal coagulant dosage applied to drinking water systems

  Jun 12

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Diogo Alexandre dos Santos Abreu

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Wiskundige Modellering

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Saba Daneshgar (Promotor admin), BW26 - Dr. David Fernandes del Pozo (Promotor), BW26 - Dr. ir. Juan Pablo Gallo Molina (Promotor), BW26 - Dr. ir. Ingmar Nopens (Promotor), BW26

• Foliar water uptake in European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.): a multiscale analysis of mechanisms, dynamics and hydraulic implications under drought and varying atmospheric CO2 regimes

  Jun 18

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Willem Goossens

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Kathy Steppe (Promotor admin), BW21 - Dr. Olivier Leroux (Promotor), BW21, WE11

• Terrestrial Laser Scanning Framework for Monitoring Deciduous Forest Structure and Aboveground Carbon Dynamics

  Jun 22

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Shilin Chen

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Kim Calders (Promotor admin), BW20 - Prof. dr. ir. Hans Verbeeck (Promotor), BW20 - Dr. Louise Terryn (Promotor), BW20

• Investigating the effects of lianas on the Barro Colorado Nature Monument forest structure with laser scanning

  Jun 23

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Xingyan Cao

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Frieke Vancoillie (Promotor admin), BW20 - Prof. dr. ir. Hans Verbeeck (Promotor), BW20 - Dr. Sruthi Krishna Moorthy Parvathi (Promotor), University of Oxford, Groot-Brittannië - Dr. Félicien Meunier (Promotor), BW20

• Unraveling hydraulic functioning of Platanus × acerifolia exposed to drought and inhibited stem photosynthesis using acoustic emissions, water storage dynamics, and mechanistic modeling

  Jul 01

  Faculty

  Faculty of Bioscience Engineering

  Doctoral candidate

  Kaat De Boeck

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. ir. Kathy Steppe (Promotor admin), BW21 - Prof. dr. Stefan Mayr (Promotor), University of Innsbruck, Oostenrijk