Staff
Professors
Prof. Jo Dewulf
Research areas: Environmental (bio) technology, Life cycle analysis, Recycling
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 49
Postdocs
Lieselot Boone
Research areas: Ecosystem services, Soil quality, LCA method development, Agriculture, Food
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Sue Ellen Taelman
Research areas: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), Marine activities, Bio-based economy, Material flow analysis,
Circular Economy, Waste management
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 58 71
Gwenny Thomassen
Research areas: Bio-based economy, Circular Economy, Sustainability assessments
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54
Sophie Huysveld
Research areas: LCA method development, Plastics, Packaging, Eco-design, Circular economy
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54
Thuy Trang Nhu
Research areas: Material flow analysis, Food, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Packaging
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 48
Erasmo Cadena
Research areas: Sustainability assessments, bio-based economy, waste management, aquaculture
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 58 71
Pieter Nachtergaele
Research topic: Optimization of renewables-based processes from variable feedstocks via process modelling
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
María Fernanda Godoy León
Research topic: Modellling of material, energy and exergy exchanges within the technosphere for the development of circularity indicators
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 24
Lisa Van Wilder
Research topic: integration of sustainability assessment with health benefits
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54
Yblin Roman
Research topic: Social life cycle assessment of innovative biobased technologies
Ligia da Silva Lima
Research topic: Critical raw materials and their role in the sustainable development and energy transition
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 28
Jordy Motte
Research topic: Sustainability assessment of the alternative production of C3-chemicals from methane sources such as biogas and stranded gas
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 28
Assistants
Margot Cooreman-Algoed
Research topic: Environmental assessment of the food sector in relation to consumers
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 62 43/ +32 (0)9 264 99 27
PhD Students
Martin Skelton
Research topic: Waste plastic treatment methods including chemical recycling, looking at resource and exergy efficiencies, implications for the possibility of circular process chains, and selection criteria for optimal treatment of various waste streams
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 27
Amelie Verlinden
Research topic: Development of a holistic tool for technologies at the API/DP interface from a sustainability perspective
Tel:+32 (0)9 264 59 18
Kobe Vulsteke
Research topic: Exergy, circular economy, sustainability assessments
Tel:+32 (0)9 264 99 27
Laura Vittoria De Luca Pena
Research topic: Development of a holistic sustainability assessment model for anthropogenic
activities in the marine environment
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 98
María Ignacia Rodríguez Escobar
Research topic: Environmental impact assessment, public acceptance, consumer behavior, perception
and intention of cultured meat
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 24
Isadora Corrêa Hackenhaar
Research topic: Advancing the integration of product circularity and raw material criticality indicators
and methods to assess product sustainability footprint
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 98
Estefanía Sanabria García
Research topic: Prospective sustainability assessment of circular plastic value chains for high-quality applications
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 27
Anna-Sophie Haslinger
Research topic: Life cycle sustainability assessment of circular food packaging
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 27
Célestin Demuytere
Research topic: Circular transition of offshore windmill materials
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Naomi Muindi
Research topic: sustainability and circular economy performance of digital health devices
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Claire Dénos
Research topic: sustainability impacts of the transition from the current diet to healthy and sustainable diets in Belgium
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Justine Mast
Research topic: Assess technology supply chain criticality for a renewable energy provider for the medium and long term
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Robin Daenen
Research topic: Life cycle assessment and ecosystem services assessment of microbial biostimulant application
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Cristian Pérez Hernández
Research topic: Advancing environmental sustainability and circularity assessment for industrial bio-based systems
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18
Duc Anh Luong
Research topic: Integration of linear inverse model and food wen modelling into life cycle assessment of fish production
Affiliated PhD Students
Minh Tu Nguyen
Research topic: Understanding the interaction between nutrient flows and aquatic polyculture management systems
Administrative & Technical Staff
Lena De Cock
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 50
Els Van Hende
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 62 37
Patrick De Wispelaere
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 99
Former Staff members and PhD dissertations
Hina Habib
Research topic: Secondary raw materials from the Urban Mine: Understanding E-waste contribution to environmental sustainability
Ozan Kocak
Research topic: Sustainability assessment of innovative technologies
Bilge Bas
Research topic: life cycle assessment of marine activities and sustainable marine ecosystem services
Natalia Andrea Cano Londono
Research topic: life cycle sustainability assessment, product circularity
Jordy Motte
Dissertation: Evaluation of wasted and widely available methane sources into C3 chemicals: environmental sustainability assessment
Ligia da Silva Lima
Dissertation: Assessment of social and environmental impacts of the supply of contemporary and emerging critical raw materials for batteries
Maíra Caetano de Andrade
Research topic: Prospective life cycle assessment of technological solutions to reduce fossil dependence in the chemical sector
Astrid Buchmayr
Dissertation: Development and application of a holistic sustainability assessment of energy technologies
Michel Xocaira Paes
Research topic: life cycle assessment, circular economy, waste management, cities and climate change
Nils Préat
Research topic: Environmental sustainability of marine biomass
Ajinkya Powar
Research topic: life cycle assessment of novel and modular chemo-enzymatic processes
Kerstin Kleinhans
Research topic: Searching for replicable strategies and solutions that are able to increase plastic recycling rates in urban environments from 20-30% to over 50% by unlocking the use of 'lost plastics' as secondary resources
Gustavo Longaray Moraga
Research topic: Circularity indicators for products and materials
Rodrigo Alvarenga
Research areas: LCA method development, Bio-based economy, Raw materials
Philipp Kehrein
Research topic: Sustainable urban water management: Wastewater resource recovery, value creation, process design
David Sanjuan Delmas
Research areas: LCA method development, Circular economy, Waste management, Aquaculture
Didem Civancik Uslu
Research areas: LCA method development, Plastics, Packaging, Eco-design, Circular economy
María Fernanda Godoy León
Dissertation: Societal metabolism of cobalt in the EU
Pieter Nachtergaele
Dissertation: Converting a challenge into an opportunity: optimization of fatty acid production from variable feedstocks via process modelling (2021)
Gustavo Longaray Moraga
Dissertation: Development of circular economy indicators starting from the in-use occupation of materials (2021)
Nils Préat
Dissertation: Development of environmental impact assessment methods for marine sourced products (2021)
Lieselot Boone
Dissertation: Quantification of agricultural productivity in environmental sustainability assessments: methodological developments (2019)
Gabriela Rentería Gámiz
Dissertation: Expanding the knowledge of environmental sustainability in the biopharmaceutical industry: from manufacturing technologies to supply chain (2019)
Sophie Sfez
Dissertation: Resource efficiency evaluation of the introduction of resource recovery technologies in the bio-based economy (2018)
Phuong Ha Tran
Dissertation: The fate of e-waste in Vietnam: environmental evaluation of the current situation and the way forward (2018)
Sam Debaveye
Dissertation: The patient benefit and environmental burden of pharmaceutical treatments: a comprehensive assessment of Human Health (2018)
Maarten Christis
Dissertation: Macroscopic assessment of material flows in Flanders based on input-output tables (2018)
Thuy Trang Nhu
Dissertation: Environmental sustainability assessment of fish products from aquaculture in Vietnam: a focus on Pangasius hypophthalmus (2017)
Wouter De Soete
Dissertation: Advancing environmental sustainability assessment in the pharmaceutical industry (2016)
Sofie Huysman
Dissertation: Analysis and development of indicators for a sustainable use of natural resources in a life cycle perspective (2016)
Sophie Huysveld
Dissertation: Exergy-based natural resource accounting in sustainability assessment of agricultural production systems (2016)
Sue Ellen Taelman
Dissertation: Environmental sustainability assessment of algae production systems: methodological development and case studies (2016)
Xander Van Doorslaer
Dissertation: Advanced oxidation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in water by heterogeneous photocatalysis (2014)
Ernesto Luis Barrera Cardoso
Dissertation: Anaerobic digestion of a very high strength and sulfate-rich vinasse: from experiments to modeling and sustainability (2014)
Thomas Schaubroeck
Dissertation: Including man-nature relationships in environmental sustainability assessment of forest-based production systems (2014)
Pilar Swart
Dissertation: Resource sustainability assessment of the use of non-ferrous metals in advanced materials applications (2013)
Rodrigo Freitas de Alvarenga
Dissertation: Environmental sustainability of biobased products: new assessment methods and case studies (2013)
Steven De Meester
Dissertation: Life cycle assessment in biorefineries: case studies and methodological development (2013)
Olga Pokorska
Dissertation: Biogenic volatile organic compound analysis from selected European deciduous and coniferous tree species: composition and emission rate (2012)
Yannay Casas Ledon
Dissertation: Introduction of advanced technology (solide oxide fuel cell) in the sugarcane industry: technical and sustainability analysis (2012)
Eva Joo
Dissertation: Characterization of stress induced changes in Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (BVOC) emissions from Fagus sylvatica and Pseudotsuga menziesii (2011)
Charles Kyuti Nzila
Dissertation: Potential of biogas production from biowaste in Kenya and its contribution to environmental sustainability (2011)
Bavo De Witte
Dissertation: Advanced oxidation of quinolone antibiotics in water by ozone and the peroxone process (2010)
Geert Van der Vorst
Dissertation: Development of a tool for the environmental evaluation of the resource and energy consumption in the pharmaceutical industry at the process, plant and system level (2010)
Wouter Van Hecke
Dissertation: Development of a gas/liquid membrane contactor for oxygen delivery in enzymatic conversions (2009)