Team

PROFESSORS

 

prof. dr. Dominique Adriaens

Group leader

dominique.adriaens@ugent.be

Tel: +32 9 264.52.19

• Research profiles: UGent, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, 
• Publications: Biblio UGent

prof. dr. Anthony Herrel

Guest professor - Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris)

anthony.herrel@ugent.be; anthony.herrel@mnhn.fr

Tel: +33 140.798.120

• Research profiles: UGent, ResearchGate, Google Scholar, 
• Publications: Biblio UGent

POSTDOCS

PHDs

• drs. Dries Marzougui

Dries.Marzougui@UGent.be

Research group IDLab-AIRO

iGent Toren
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 126, B-9052 Gent

• Research profiles: ResearchGate, Linkedin
• Publications: Biblio UGent
• Projects: Seahorse-inspired Swiss army knife: versatile robot manipulators that also solve evolutionary problems

• drs. Morgane Taillades

morgane.taillades@UGent.be

• Research profiles:Linkedin
• Publications: Biblio UGent
• Projects: Head-first burrowing in amphisbaenians

drs. Liesbeth Vanhauwermeiren

  

Liesbeth.VanHauwermeiren@UGent.be

Joint PhD - Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (UGent)

• Research profiles: 
• Publications: Biblio UGent
• Projects: sacro-iliac joint

TECHNICAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Master students

Former PhD students

1         1999 – 2005             Stijn Devaere - “Taxonomy and evolutionary morphology of African catfishes (Clariidae): the roads to anguilliformity” – UGent (Promotor)(19/04/05).

2         2001 – 2006             Tom Geerinckx - “Ontogeny and functional morphology of a highly specialized trophic apparatus: a case study of neotropical suckermouth armoured catfishes (Loricariidae, Siluriformes)” – UGent (Promotor) (08/12/06).

3         2001 – 2007             Natalie De Schepper - “Evolutionary morphology of body elongation in teleosts: aspects of convergent evolution” – UGent (Promotor) (07/05/07).

4         2001 – 2008             Frank Huysentruyt - “Ontogenetische studie van de kopstructuren bij Corydoras aeneus (Siluriformes, Loricarioidea), met een bijdrage tot de fylogenie van de Loricarioidea” – UGent (Promotor) (01/02/08).

5         2005 - 2010              Soheil Eagderi - “Morphological phylogeny of Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes” - Teheran University, Iran-UGent (Promotor) (31/08/2010).

6         2006 - 2011              Heleen Leysen - “Evolutionary morphology of the extremely specialized feeding apparatus in seahorses and pipefishes (Syngnathidae)” - UGent (promotor) (11/03/2011).

7         2007 - 2011              Fatemeh Tabatabaei Yazdi - “Patterns of variation in skull phenotypes in Meriones from the Iranean region, in relation to species and environmental-geographical diversity” – UGent (promoter) (28/02/2011).

8         2008 – 2011             Annelies Genbrugge – “Evolutionary morphology of the trophic apparatus in Darwin finches: a case study on adaptive evolution of complex musculoskeletal systems” – Joint PhD UA-UGent (promotor UGent) (18/05/2011).

9         2003 – 2012             Paul Van Daele - “Chromosomale en morfologische evolutie bij sociale molratten (Cryptomys - Bathyergidae)” – UGent (Promotor) (14/03/2012).

10      2008 – 2012             Emilie Descamps – “Phenotyping of craniofacial deformations in vertebrate model organisms: Analysis and visualisation tools of abnormal development resulting from defects in cell signalling and adhesion” – UGent (promoter) (04/05/2012).

11      2012 – 2013             Mahdi Rajabizadeh - Biodiversity of the Snakes in Northern and Western Mountains of Iran, with Special Emphasis on Biodiversity in Colubroids – UGent (promotor) (17/12/2013).

12      2011 – 2016             Céline Neutens – Transforming tails into tools: from evolutionary morphology of prehensile tails in syngnathid fishes to exploring bio-inspiration potentials – UGent (promotor, M. De Beule co-promotor) (21/06/2016).

13      2012 – 2017             Mathias Bouilliart – Ontogeny and feeding performance of the enigmatic Anguilla leptocephalus larva: a morphological and biomechanical study – UGent (promotor) (31/03/2017).

14        2006 - 2008        Milica Ristovska - “Early development of the cranial and postcranial structures of Salmo letnica (Karaman, 1924) (Teleostei: Salmonidae). Constructional-morphological approach to the ontogeny of the cranial “Bauplan” - ("Sv. Ciril and Methodij" University, Republic of Macedonia - co-promotor) (24/01/08).

15         2008 – 2013         Tomas Praet – “The biomechanical structure of the seahorse tail as a source of inspiration for industrial design” – Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UGent (co-promotor) (28/05/2013).

16         2007 – 2017         Spyros Nikolakakis – “Analysis of size and shape in early larval stages of European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax): egg disinfection, axenity and bacterial load” – Faculty of Bio-engineering UGent (co-promotor). (8/12/2017).

17         2013 – 2017          Jens De Meyer – From patterns to implications of head shape dimorphism on the complex life cycle of the European eel (Anguilla Anguilla) – UGent (promotor, C. Belpaire co-promotor) (30/05/2017).

18          2012 – 2019        Thuong Phuc Nguyen – Nutrition and growth in gilthead seabream in relation to skeletal deformities – UGent (promotor, Patrick Sorgeloos co-promotor) (17/12/2019).

19         2016 – 2021         Allison Luger – Evolution of prehensile tail systems in vertebrates – UGent (promotor, A. Herrel co-promotor) (21/01/2021)

20         2018-2022         Mona Goharimanesh - A comparative morphological approach to study the systematics of brittle stars from intertidal zone of Persian Gulf/Oman Sea and test the hypothesis on adaptive evolution of ophiuroids prehensile system – joint PhD UGent & Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (promotor, Fereshteh Ghassemzadeh co-promotor) (14/11/2022).

21         2018-2022         Aurélien Lowie - The evolution of burrowing in limbless tetrapods (promotor, A. Herrel co-promotor) (3/11/2022).

Former Postdocs

1. Dr. Tom Geerinckx
2. Dr. Paul Van Daele
3. Dr. Anabela Maia
4. Dr. Edina Prondvai
5. Dr. Jens De Meyer