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    Ellen Moons (c) Patrik Lundin_The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 26 February 2026

    Ellen Moons is Ghent University Alumnus of the Year 2026

    Ellen Moons, Professor of Physics and Secretary-General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, has been named Ghent University Alumnus of the Year 2026.

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    9 December 2025 Ghent University hits milestone: 150 ERC grantees with 4 new winners
    13 October 2025 Ghent University scores twice at ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference
    13 October 2025 Ghent University researchers develop world's fastest QD-based SWIR photodetector
    4 September 2025 No fewer than seven new ERC Starting Grants for Ghent University researchers
    1 September 2025 ETpathfinder Smart Skills Lab shares Einstein Telescope knowledge with businesses
    14 July 2025 Two chemists from Ghent University both win an ERC Proof of Concept Grant
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    • Mar 9

      Lecture 'Meet the Expert - Public–private partnerships in the transportation sector'

      Room 2.1 - S8, Krijgslaan 297, 9000 Ghent

    • Mar 19

      Symposium 'Why so Many Ways to Die?'

      Hybrid: Campus Ardoyen - Seminar room - FSVM I Building, Tech Lane Ghent Science Park 71, 9052 Zwijnaarde

    • Mar 26

      Happening 'Global Cook Off: WE together'

      Campus Sterre S5 - Studententuin, Krijgslaan 293, 9000 Ghent

    • Mar 31

      Symposium 'Quality Assurance in Higher Education Amid War and AI: Insights from Ukraine and Belgium'

      Universiteitsforum, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 33-35, 9000 Ghent

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    PhD defenses

    • Mar 5

      Pseudo-differential operators and spectral multipliers on non-Euclidean settings

      Gómez Cobos, David Santiago

    • Mar 6

      Shedding light on dark sirens

      Turski, Cezary

    • Mar 13

      Microplastic pollution in Vietnamese beaches: the role of physical and biological processes with a focus on the benthos

      Nguyễn, Thi Mỹ Yên

    • Mar 13

      From Reads to Reality: Optimizing the Performance of Long-Read Nanopore Shotgun Metagenomics for Assembly-Free Microbial Detection

      Van Uffelen, Alexander

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