2022

  • Michiel Van Tendeloo - Resource-efficient nitrogen removal from sewage: kinetic, physical and chemical tools for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox
  • Janne Spanoghe - Purple bacteria cultivation on light, carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas: Exploring and tuning the potential for microbial food production

2021

  • Jelle Roegiers - Development of combined photocatalytic and active carbon fiber technology for indoor air purification based on Multiphysics models​
  • Yankai Xie - Bioreactor strategies for sustainable nitrogen cycling based on mineralization/nitrification, partial nitritation/anammox or sulfur-based denitratation
  • Weiqiang Zhu - Microbial resource management for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox: Strategies to enhance the nitrogen conversion efficiency
  • Myrthe Van Hal - Photo(electro)catalytic air purification and soot degradation with simultaneous energy recover

2020

  • Abbas Alloul - Purple bacteria as microbial protein source: Technology development, community control, economic optimization and biomass valorization
  • Natan Blommaerts - Plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles: From synthesis to photocatalytic application

2019

  • Yixing Sui - Producing nutritional protein with Dunaliella microalgae: Technological and economic optimization
  • Jeroen van Walsem -  Design and optimization of a photocatalytic reactor for air purification in ventilation systems
  • Maarten Muys - Microbial protein as sustainable feed and food ingredient: production and nutritional quality of phototrophs and aerobic heterotrophs

2018

  • Ramesh Asapu - A study of plasmonic systems using Layer-by-layer synthesized core-shell nanoparticles

2017

  • Maarten Keulemans - Study of electron transfer processes in plasmonic photocatalysis

2016

  • Fenu Alessio - Membrane bioreactors: modeling and alternative applications. Defended on 29.01.2016
  • Karen Van Wesenbeeck - Plasma catalysis as an efficient and sustainable air purification technology. Defended on 01.06.2016

2015

  • Erik Van Eynde - Biotemplate silica-titania diatoms for gas phase photocatalysis. Defended on 02.12.2016

2014

  • Sammy Verbruggen - TiO2 gas phase photocatalysis: from morphological design to plasmonic enhancement. Defended on 05.05.2014

2013

  • Helen Verstraelen - Corrosion in ballast tanks on board of merchant vessels: Study on the relation between steel quality and corrosion. Defended on 29.03.2013
  • Marianne Smits - Photocatalytic degradation of diesel soot: from application to reaction mechanism. Defended on 20.06.2013
  • Peter Jochems - Process intensification by immobilization of β-galactosidase on a mixed matrix membrane: galacto-oligosaccharides production as a case study. Defended on 21.11.2013

2012

  • Irina Nikolova - Modeling emission, formation and dispersion of ultrafine particles in an ubran environment. Defended on 16.02.2012
  • Celine Huyskens - Fouling in submerged membrane bioreactors. Defended on 19.06.2012
  • Tom Tytgat - Research and development of self-supporting TiO2 foams for removal of VOCs from ambient air. Defended on 13.12.2012

2011

  • Birger Hauchecorne - Development of an FTIR in situ reactor for real time study of surface reactions in photocatalysis. Defended on 23.06.2011
  • Kris De Baere - Corrosion in ballast tanks on board of merchant vessels - in situ study of the significant parameters. Defended on 04.07.2011
  • Cédric Buysse - Perovskite capillaries for gas separation in sustainable energy production. Defended on 05.07.2011