PhDs
A-Sense Lab regularly has PhD or postdoc vacancies. You can find them via the academic personnel vacancies or contact Karolien.DeWael@uantwerpen.be.
The Antwerp Doctorate School (ADS) can help you during your PhD and prepares you for your further career.
All PhD theses:
2023
Singlet oxygen-based photoelectrocatalysis: from photosensitizer structures to plasmonic enhancement
Shahid Ullah Khan
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Sammy Verbruggen
2022
Singlet oxygen-based photoelectrochemical detection of nucleic acids
Thiruvottriyur Shanmugam Saranya
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Stanislav Trashin
Singlet Oxygen-based Photoelectrochemical Detection of Phenolic Contaminants
Liselotte Neven
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Sabine Van Doorslaer
Development of semiconductor-based photoelectrochemical sensing strategies for phenolic compounds in natural and supply water
Camilla Mendonca Verbinnen
Promotors: Sergio A.S. Machado and Karolien De Wael
PFAS Sensing: Concept design of electrochemical and optical, bio- and biomimetic strategies
Giulia Moro
Promotors: Enzo Alessio, Ligia Maria Moretto and Karolien De Wael
2021
The development of sensitive and selective electrochemical methods for the detection of antibiotics
Adrian-Marian Blidar
Promotor: Cecilia Cristea and Karolien De Wael
Cephalosporin antibiotics: electrochemical fingerprints and redox pathways investigated by mass spectral analysis
Nick Sleegers
Promotor: Karolien De Wael
Shaping up oligonucleotides: aptamer-target recognition investigated by native mass spectrometry
Elise Daems
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Frank Sobott
Novel insights and approaches for the analytical characterization of tangible cultural heritage objects.
Andrea Marchetti
Promotors: Karolien De Wael
2020
A highly accurate portable electrochemical sensor for cocaine: from methodology to testing in field
Mats de Jong
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Nele Samyn
Qualitative and quantitative determination of cocaine using mid-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics
Joy Eliaerts
Promotors: Karolien De Wael, Koen Janssens and Nathalie Meert (NICC)
Bio(inspired) strategies for the electro-sensing of β-lactam antibiotics
Fabio Bottari
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Ronny Blust
Magnetic and analytical fingerprinting of pariculate matter for urban (bio)monitoring
Ana Teixeira Castanheiro
Promotors: Roeland Samson and Karolien De Wael
2019
Highly specific X-ray powder diffraction imaging at the macroscopic and microscopic scale
Frederik Vanmeert
Promotors: Koen Janssens and Karolien De Wael
2018
Electrosensing applications by using titania as a support for bio(inspired) molecules
Vanoushe Rahemi
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Vera Meynen
Investigation on the use of mesoporous titanium dioxide as a substrate for globin adsorption: a strategy for protein based (electro) sensing
Stefano Loreto
Promotors: Vera Meynen and Karolien De Wael
Electrosynthesis as an environmentally friendly production method A screening methodology towards upscaling
Danny Pauwels
Promotors: Tom Breugelmans and Karolien De Wael
Historical Copper- and Lead Alloys at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp
Patrick Storme
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Joost Caen
2017
Cooperative electrocatalytic alcohol oxidation: quest for an optimal mediator system
Jeroen Lybaert
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Kourosch Abasspour Tehrani
2016
Development of new strategies for electrochemical aptasensing
Sanaz Pilehvar
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Ronny Blust
2015
Utilization of magnetic nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes to fabrication electrochemical sensors for determination of some important biological and pharmaceutical compounds
Mohaddeseh Amiri-Aref
Promotors: Jahan Bakhsh Raoof and Karolien De Wael
Extraction of some pharmaceutical and organic compounds from biological and environmental samples using solid phase extraction based on iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles and dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction and their determination by HPLC
Elias Ranjbari
Promotors: Mohammad Reza Hadjmohammadi and Karolien De Wael
2014
Analytical methodology for combined stable carbon isotope ratio and concentration measurement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air particulate matter
Anna Buczynska
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and René Van Grieken
The influence of pariculate matter on cultural heritage. Chemical characterisation of the interaction between atmospheric environment and pigments
Willemien Anaf
Promoters: Karolien De Wael and Koen Janssens
2012
Chemical characterization of particulate air pollutants : Case studies concerning indoor air quality, cultural heritage and the marine environment
Benjamin Horemans
Promotors: Karolien De Wael and René Van Grieken
2007
Tetrasulphonated phthalocyanine thin films deposited on gold electrodes: a study using voltammetry and synchrotron micro X-ray fluorescence
Karl Peeters
Promotors: Annemie Adriaens, Laszlo Vincze and Karolien De Wael