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)
• Ellen Dierenfeld (visiting professor; tropical and exotic animal nutrition)

Practical Assistant

• Luk Sobry

Administrative and technical staff

• Carolien Rogiers
• 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 (sustainable nutrition of fish and poultry)
• Erick Zender Loayza Torrico (nutritional ecology of killifish in Titicaca Lake)
• 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)
• Renjie Yao (diet structure and amino acids in suckling piglet nutrition)
• Sagni Gobena (tropical fish nutrition)
• Sylvie D’Hooghe (animal fibre in felids)
• Yunhan Zhang (animal fibre and mineral bioavailibility)