Staff and contact details
Contact
Animal Nutrition Unit
Heidestraat 19
9820 Merelbeke
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)