All PhD theses:
2024
- Noelia Felipe Montiel - Voltage against illicit drug trafficking. Capabilities of electrochemical fingerprinting to detect illicit drugs (2024/03/29) - Promotor: Karolien De Wael
- Jonas Schram - Electrochemical sensing strategies for multiple illicit drugs (2024/02/23) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Marc Parrilla Pons
2023
- Robin Van Echelpoel - Making an impact with voltammetric illicit drug sensors – Bridging the gap between fundamental lab research and on-site application (2023/11/23) - Promotor: Karolien De Wael
- Shahid Ullah Khan - Singlet oxygen-based photoelectrocatalysis: from photosensitizer structures to plasmonic enhancement (2023/01/12) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Sammy Verbruggen
2022
- Saranya Thiruvottriyur Shanmugam - Singlet oxygen-based photoelectrochemical detection of nucleic acids (2022/11/17) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Stanislav Trashin
- Janne Spanoghe - Purple bacteria cultivation on light, carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas: Exploring and tuning the potential for microbial food production (2022/05/05) - Promotor: Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Liselotte Neven - Singlet Oxygen-based Photoelectrochemical Detection of Phenolic Contaminants (2022/03/30) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Sabine Van Doorslaer
- Michiel Van Tendeloo - Resource-efficient nitrogen removal from sewage: kinetic, physical and chemical tools for mainstream partial nitritation/anammox (2022/03/28) - Promotor: Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Camilla Mendonca Verbinnen - Development of semiconductor-based photoelectrochemical sensing strategies for phenolic compounds in natural and supply water - Promotors: Sergio A.S. Machado and Karolien De Wael
- Giulia Moro - PFAS Sensing: Concept design of electrochemical and optical, bio- and biomimetic strategies - Promotors: Enzo Alessio, Ligia Maria Moretto and Karolien De Wael
2021
- Myrthe Van Hal - Photo(electro)catalytic air purification and soot degradation with simultaneous energy recover (2021/12/17) - Promotors: Silvia Lenaerts and Sammy Verbruggen
- Jelle Roegiers - Development of combined photocatalytic and active carbon fiber technology for indoor air purification based on Multiphysics models (2021/09/22) - Promotor: Siegfried Denys
- Nick Sleegers - Cephalosporin antibiotics: electrochemical fingerprints and redox pathways investigated by mass spectral analysis (2021/09/20) - Promotor: Karolien De Wael
- Elise Daems - Shaping up oligonucleotides: aptamer-target recognition investigated by native mass spectrometry (2021/06/03) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Frank Sobott
- Andrea Marchetti - Novel insights and approaches for the analytical characterization of tangible cultural heritage objects (2021/04/29) - Promotor: Karolien De Wael
- Adrian-Marian Blidar - The development of sensitive and selective electrochemical methods for the detection of antibiotics- Promotors: Cecilia Cristea and Karolien De Wael
2020
- Mats de Jong - A highly accurate portable electrochemical sensor for cocaine: from methodology to testing in field (2020/08/27) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Nele Samyn
- Joy Eliaerts - Qualitative and quantitative determination of cocaine using mid-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics (2020/06/03) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael, Koen Janssens and Nathalie Meert (NICC)
- Ana Teixeira Castanheiro - Magnetic and analytical fingerprinting of pariculate matter for urban (bio)monitoring (2020/01/21) - Promotors: Roeland Samson and Karolien De Wael
- Fabio Bottari - Bio(inspired) strategies for the electro-sensing of β-lactam antibiotics (2020/01/20) - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Ronny Blust
2019
- Natan Blommaerts - Plasmonic core-shell nanoparticles: From synthesis to photocatalytic application (2019/12/18) - Promotors: Silvia Lenaerts and Sammy Verbruggen
- Abbas Alloul - Purple bacteria as microbial protein source: Technology development, community control, economic optimization and biomass valorization (2019/12/05) - Promotors: Siegfried Vlaeminck and Gilbert Van Stappen
- Yixing Sui - Producing nutritional protein with Dunaliella microalgae: Technological and economic optimization (2019/10/16) - Promotors: Silvia Lenaerts and Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Jeroen van Walsem - Design and optimization of a photocatalytic reactor for air purification in ventilation systems (2019/06/04) - Promotors: Silvia Lenaerts and Siegfried Vlaeminck
- Frederik Vanmeert - Highly specific X-ray powder diffraction imaging at the macroscopic and microscopic scale (2019/04/29) - Promotors: Koen Janssens and Karolien De Wael
2018
- Vanoushe Rahemi - Electrosensing applications by using titania as a support for bio(inspired) molecules - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Vera Meynen
- Stefano Loreto - Investigation on the use of mesoporous titanium dioxide as a substrate for globin adsorption: a strategy for protein based (electro) sensing - Promotors: Vera Meynen and Karolien De Wael
- Danny Pauwels - Electrosynthesis as an environmentally friendly production method A screening methodology towards upscaling - Promotors: Tom Breugelmans and Karolien De Wael
- Patrick Storme - Historical Copper- and Lead Alloys at the Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Joost Caen
- Ramesh Asapu - A study of plasmonic systems using Layer-by-layer synthesized core-shell nanoparticles
2017
- Jeroen Lybaert - Cooperative electrocatalytic alcohol oxidation: quest for an optimal mediator system - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Kourosch Abasspour Tehrani
- Maarten Keulemans - Study of electron transfer processes in plasmonic photocatalysis
2016
- Sanaz Pilehvar - Development of new strategies for electrochemical aptasensing - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and Ronny Blust
- Karen Van Wesenbeeck - Plasma catalysis as an efficient and sustainable air purification technology. (2016/06/01)
- Fenu Alessio - Membrane bioreactors: modeling and alternative applications. (2016/01/29)
2015
- Mohaddeseh Amiri-Aref - Utilization of magnetic nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes to fabrication electrochemical sensors for determination of some important biological and pharmaceutical compounds - Promotors: Jahan Bakhsh Raoof and Karolien De Wael
- Elias Ranjbari - 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 - Promotors: Mohammad Reza Hadjmohammadi and Karolien De Wael
- Erik Van Eynde - Biotemplate silica-titania diatoms for gas phase photocatalysis. (2016/12/02)
2014
- Anna Buczynska - Analytical methodology for combined stable carbon isotope ratio and concentration measurement of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in air particulate matter - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and René Van Grieken
- Willemien Anaf - The influence of pariculate matter on cultural heritage. Chemical characterisation of the interaction between atmospheric environment and pigments - Promoters: Karolien De Wael and Koen Janssens
- Sammy Verbruggen - TiO2 gas phase photocatalysis: from morphological design to plasmonic enhancement. (2014/05/05)
2013
- Peter Jochems - Process intensification by immobilization of β-galactosidase on a mixed matrix membrane: galacto-oligosaccharides production as a case study. (2013/11/21)
- Marianne Smits - Photocatalytic degradation of diesel soot: from application to reaction mechanism. (2013/06/20)
- Helen Verstraelen - Corrosion in ballast tanks on board of merchant vessels: Study on the relation between steel quality and corrosion. (2013/03/29)
2012
- Benjamin Horemans - Chemical characterization of particulate air pollutants : Case studies concerning indoor air quality, cultural heritage and the marine environment - Promotors: Karolien De Wael and René Van Grieken
- Tom Tytgat - Research and development of self-supporting TiO2 foams for removal of VOCs from ambient air. (2012/12/13)
- Celine Huyskens - Fouling in submerged membrane bioreactors. (2012/06/19)
- Irina Nikolova - Modeling emission, formation and dispersion of ultrafine particles in an urban environment. (2012/02/16)
2011
- Kris De Baere - Corrosion in ballast tanks on board of merchant vessels - in situ study of the significant parameters. (2011/07/04)
- Cédric Buysse - Perovskite capillaries for gas separation in sustainable energy production. (2011/07/05)
- Birger Hauchecorne - Development of an FTIR in situ reactor for real time study of surface reactions in photocatalysis.(2011/06/23)
2007
- Karl Peeters - Tetrasulphonated phthalocyanine thin films deposited on gold electrodes: a study using voltammetry and synchrotron micro X-ray fluorescence - Promotors: Annemie Adriaens, Laszlo Vincze and Karolien De Wael