​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 Wae
  • 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