PhD defenses
The following list provides an overview of all upcoming PhD defenses at Ghent University. The specified links refer to our Dutch website.
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Decentring EU Climate Leadership: Strategic Followership Agency in the South Korean Green Transition
Aug 24- Faculty
- Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Bohyun Kim
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de Politieke Wetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. Dr. Thijs Van de Graaf
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Design of smart lactoferrin by nanobody mediated targeting of lactoferrin to intestinal Chlamydia suis
Aug 24- Faculty
- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
- Doctoral candidate
- Margaux Verhaeghe
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen: Biotechnologie
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. Daisy Vanrompay (Promotor admin), BW22 - Prof. dr. Bert Devriendt (Promotor), DI04 - Prof. dr. Jan Gettemans (Promotor), GE31
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Power-to-Heat Electrified Shockwave Turboreactors for Steam Cracking: Experimental Validation, Aerothermal Design, and Optimization Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Aug 24- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
- Doctoral candidate
- Rejish Lal Johnson Samee Lal
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de ingenieurswetenschappen: chemische technologie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. Kevin Van Geem, vakgroep Materialen, Textiel en Chemische Proceskunde - prof. Tom Verstraete, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
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Optimisation of agronomic and retting performance of industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) for long fibre production
Aug 24- Faculty
- Faculty of Bioscience Engineering
- Doctoral candidate
- Hanne Pappaert
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. ir. Leen De Gelder (Promotor admin), BW25 - Dr. ir. Veronique Troch (Promotor), Hogeschool Gent
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Migration during Brexit through the Lens of the Left-Leaning Press: A Study into the Reactive Nature of Migration Coverage by Four Remain- and Left-Leaning News Outlets
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
- Doctoral candidate
- Jorge Disseldorp
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de taalkunde
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. Catherine Bouko, LW22
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Understanding and Reducing Uncertainty in Deep Geothermal Systems
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Le Zhang
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: geologie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Thomas Hermans, WE13 - prof. dr. Alexandros Daniilidis, TU Delft, Nederland - prof. dr. Anne-Catherine Dieudonné, TU Delft, Nederland
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Unpacking Aggregate Disturbances: Heterogeneous Responses across Households, Regions, and Assets.
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Doctoral candidate
- Nikolaos Koutounidis
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de Economische Wetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. Selien De Schryder, vakgroep Economie
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On the Warp and Woof of Pattern Discovery in Geographic Time Series: A Methodological Framework for Unsupervised Learning with Dynamic Time Warping in a Geospatial Context
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Lars De Sloover
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: geomatica en landmeetkunde
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Nico Van de Weghe, WE12 - prof. dr. Haosheng Huang, WE12
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The Bio-Synthetic Continuum: Designing Hybrid Polymers for Biomedical Impact
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Nicolas Deroose
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Peter Dubruel, WE07
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Caught in the metabolic NET: Neutrophil dysfunction and endometrial health in transition dairy cows
Aug 25- Faculty
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Doctoral candidate
- Lei Xie
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de diergeneeskundige wetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. Geert Opsomer, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ugent - Prof. dr. Osvaldo Bogado Pascottini, School of Veterinary Medicine, University College Dublin
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Making the first move: Outreach strategies to advance equity in primary care
Aug 26- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Dorien Vanden Bossche
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de gezondheidswetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- prof. Sara Willems, Vakgroep Volksgezondheid en Eerstelijnszorg – prof. Peter Decat, Vakgroep Volksgezondheid en Eerstelijnszorg
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Understanding early developmental trajectories and assessment of children at elevated likelihood for autism
Aug 26- Faculty
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Sarah Schaubroeck
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de psychologie
- Promotor(s)
- Administratief promotor: prof. dr. Herbert Roeyers, vakgroep Experimenteel-Klinische en Gezondheidspsychologie (PP05) - promotor: dr. Ellen Demurie, vakgroep Experimenteel-Klinische en Gezondheidspsychologie (PP05)
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How plants react to pressure waves: unravelling responses to acoustic and mechanical signals in Arabidopsis thaliana
Aug 26- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Marie Demey
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: biologie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Dominique Van Der Straeten, WE11 - dr. Ratnesh Mishra, Biotalys
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Committed to Calm, Poised for Action; From Naive T Cell Homeostasis to In-Vivo Models of SARS-CoV-2 Immunity and Virus-Host Interactions
Aug 26- Faculty
- Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Sahine Lameire
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de gezondheidswetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- prof. Bart Lambrecht, Vakgroep Inwendige ziekten en pediatrie – prof. Hamida Hammad, Vakgroep Inwendige ziekten en pediatrie
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Synthesis of New Triazolinedione Click Chemistry Reagents For Material And Life Sciences
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Kamil Ünal
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Johan Winne, WE07 - prof. dr. Filip Du Prez, WE07
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Syntactic, lexical, and pragmatic effects on the establishment of shared linguistic representations: evidence from cross-linguistic structural priming
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Li Gu
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de psychologie
- Promotor(s)
- Administratief promotor: prof. dr. Robert Hartsuiker, vakgroep Experimentele Psychologie (PP02)
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Drinking Water Insecurity and Users’ Adaptation Strategies in Rural Ethiopia: A Focus on Health, Risk Preferences, and Social Welfare.
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
- Doctoral candidate
- Haileyesus Girma
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de Economische Wetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. dr. Bart Defloor, vakgroep Economie
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Hydrothermal Brine Expulsion as the Driver of the Early Wenlock Ireviken Crisis: A Forensic Record of Ancient Marine Pollution
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- Iris Vancoppenolle
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: geologie
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Thijs Vandenbroucke, WE13 - dr. Poul Emsbo, United States Geological Survey (USGS), USA - dr. Patrick McLaughlin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Measurements to Improve the Characterization of Four-Top-Quark Production
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Sciences
- Doctoral candidate
- David Marckx
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de wetenschappen: fysica
- Promotor(s)
- prof. dr. Didar Dobur, WE05 - dr. Kirill Skovpen, WE05
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Epidemiology of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the broiler production chain
Aug 27- Faculty
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Doctoral candidate
- Moniek Ringenier
- Academic degree
- Doctor in de diergeneeskundige wetenschappen
- Promotor(s)
- Prof. Dr. J. Dewulf, Faculteit Diergeneeskunde, UGent - Prof. Dr. M. Devreese, Faculteit Diergeneeskunde, UGent - Dr. F. Boyen Faculteit Diergeneeskunde, UGent