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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Mechanically Strong and Functional Single-Network Poly(2-Isopropenyl-2-Oxazoline) Hydrogels Based on Dynamic Covalent Bonds and Physical Interactions

  Aug 31

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Kaiming Zhang

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Richard Hoogenboom, WE07

• Living Environment, Mobility and Well-being in Later Life: Integrating Objective, Perceived and Accessibility Dimensions towards Age-friendly Environments

  Aug 31

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Caroline Beckers

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: geografie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Frank Witlox, WE12 - prof. dr. Greet Cardon, GE30 - dr. Long Cheng, Southeast University, China

• The Biophysical Cost of Macrocycle Opening in Pseudomonas Cyclic Lipodepsipeptides:NMR Insights into Linearization and Dynamics Beyond Structure

  Aug 31

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Durga Prasad Durga Prasad

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. José Martins, WE07

• Upcycling of polymers with ester side-chains through amidation

  Aug 31

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Zhe Wang

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Richard Hoogenboom, WE07 - dr. Somdeb Jana, WE07

• On the proteolytic weaponry of Burkholderia sensu lato

  Sep 01

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Eva Mortier

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: biochemie en biotechnologie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Savvas Savvides, WE10

• Sustainable Pest Control via RNA interference: Guanidinylated Polymers as Delivery Platforms for Agricultural Applications

  Sep 02

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Sven Vereecken

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de Wetenschappen: Chemie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Peter Dubruel, WE07 - Prof. dr. Els Van Damme, LA25

• Electrogenerated bases in transition metal chemistry

  Sep 03

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Roman Larkovich

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: chemie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Catherine Cazin, WE06 - Prof. dr. Steven Nolan, WE06

• From Phenotype to Mechanism: Pharmacological Modulation of <I>C. elegans</i> health and aging

  Sep 15

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Sven Bulterijs

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: biologie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Bart Braeckman, WE11 - dr. Ann Beliën, Rejuvenate Biomed NV

• Beyond the commute: Telework effects on travel behaviour, location decisions, time use, and wellbeing

  Sep 21

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Jente Versigghel

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: geografie

  Promotor(s)

  Prof. dr. Frank Witlox, WE12 - Prof. Jonas De Vos, University College London

• Ore-forming processes of the gold mineralization in the Western Domain of the Karagwe-Ankole belt, Central Africa

  Oct 16

  Faculty

  Faculty of Sciences

  Doctoral candidate

  Inge Cools

  Academic degree

  Doctor in de wetenschappen: geologie

  Promotor(s)

  prof. dr. Stijn Dewaele, WE13 - prof. dr. Philippe Muchez, KU Leuven