Contact

Animal Nutrition Unit
Heidestraat 19
9820 Merelbeke

nutrition@ugent.be

Staff

Tenured Academic Staff

• Geert Janssens (full professor; head of the research unit)
• Sam Millet (visiting professor; pig nutrition)
• Marcus Clauss (visiting professor; comparative nutrition)

Practical Assistant

• Luk Sobry

Administrative and technical staff

• Herman De Rycke
• Donna Vanhauteghem

Post-doctoral co-workers

• Alireza Khadem (additives in animal nutrition)
• An Cools (animal nutrition, pigs in particular)
• Annelies De Cuyper (comparative carnivore nutrition; brown bears)
• Arturo Muñoz Saravia (aquatic nutritional ecology)

PhD Students

• Awot Teklu Mebrato (nutritive value of fish for chicken feeding)
• Erick Zender Loayza Torrico (nutritional ecology of killifish in Titicaca Lake)
• Hubèrt van Hees (dietary fibre for suckling piglets)
• Ketema Worku Bedada (nutritional status of ranging tropical dairy cattle)
• Kobe Buyse (tannins in poultry nutrition)
• Madri Brink (nutritional strategies to lower ammonia emission in poultry)
• Mengmeng Sun (amino acid profile in felid prey)
• Metekia Tamiru (sustainable feeding of tropical poultry)
• Mulugeta Tilahun Keno (dual-purpose barley for ruminant feeding)
• Renjie Yao (diet structure and amino acids in suckling piglet nutrition)
• Sylvie D’Hooghe (animal fibre in felids)
• Tokuma Negisho Bayissa (optimising fish as nutrient-sensitive agriculture in Ethiopia)