Staff

Professors

Prof. Jo Dewulf

Research areas: Environmental (bio) technology, Life cycle analysis, Recycling

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 49

Postdocs

Lieselot Boone

Research areas: Sustainability assessment, LCA method development, Sustainable healthcare, Ecosystem services, Food Energy

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Gwenny Thomassen

Research areas: Circular Economy, Sustainability assessments, Renewable Energy, Demand-side measures, Material demand

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54

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Sophie Huysveld

Research areas: LCA method development, Plastics, Packaging, Eco-design, Circular economy

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54

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Thuy Trang Nhu

Research areas: Material flow analysis, Food, Aquaculture, Agriculture, Packaging

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 48

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Erasmo Cadena

Research areas: Sustainability assessments, bio-based economy, waste management, aquaculture

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 58 71

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Pieter Nachtergaele

Research topic: Optimization of renewables-based processes from variable feedstocks via process modelling

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Lisa Van Wilder

Research topic: integration of sustainability assessment with health benefits

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 54

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Yblin Roman

Research topic: Social life cycle assessment of innovative biobased technologies

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Jordy Motte

Research topic: Sustainability assessment of the alternative production of C3-chemicals from methane sources such as biogas and stranded gas

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 28

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Laura Vittoria De Luca Pena

Research topic: Development of a holistic sustainability assessment model for anthropogenic

activities in the marine environment

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 98

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Ricardo Magdalena Zarzuela

Research topic: Industrial ecology and renewable energy

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Margot Cooreman-Algoed

Research topic: Environmental assessment of the food sector in relation to consumers

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 62 43/ +32 (0)9 264 99 27

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Hellen Luisa de Castro e Silva

Research topic: Material demand in the twin transition and demand-side measures in energy systems

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PhD Students

Amelie Verlinden

Research topic: Development of a holistic tool for technologies at the API/DP interface from a sustainability perspective

Tel:+32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Kobe Vulsteke

Research topic: Exergy, circular economy, sustainability assessments

Tel:+32 (0)9 264 99 27

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María Ignacia Rodríguez Escobar

Research topic: Environmental impact assessment, public acceptance, consumer behavior, perception

and intention of cultured meat

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 24

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Isadora Corrêa Hackenhaar

Research topic: Advancing the integration of product circularity and raw material criticality indicators

and methods to assess product sustainability footprint

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 98

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Estefanía Sanabria García

Research topic: Prospective sustainability assessment of circular plastic value chains for high-quality applications

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 27

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Anna-Sophie Haslinger

Research topic: Life cycle sustainability assessment of circular food packaging

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 99 27

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Célestin Demuytere

Research topic: Circular transition of offshore windmill materials

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Naomi Muindi

Research topic: sustainability and circular economy performance of digital health devices

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Claire Dénos

Research topic: sustainability impacts of the transition from the current diet to healthy and sustainable diets in Belgium

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Justine Mast

Research topic: Assess technology supply chain criticality for a renewable energy provider for the medium and long term

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Robin Daenen

Research topic: Life cycle assessment and ecosystem services assessment of microbial biostimulant application

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Cristian Pérez Hernández

Research topic: Advancing environmental sustainability and circularity assessment for industrial bio-based systems

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 18

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Mohammad Lahafdoozian

Research topic: Innovative non-oxidative methane coupling

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Iris Abrigo

Research topic: Sustainable valorization of marine side- and waste streams

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Jens Forré

Research topic: Sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry

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Lotte Neckebroeck

Research topic: Sustainability in the pharmaceutical industry

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Asha Ashari

Research topic: The environmental impacts of demand-side measures in thermal comfort and mobility

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Nora Schelte

Research topic: Sustainable proteins from seaweed

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Valeriy Matveev

Research topic: Sustainable design and business models for sustainability of the next generation heat pumps

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Rhani Bostyn

Research topic: Material demand for the twin transition

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Duc Anh Luong

Research topic: Integration of linear inverse model and food wen modelling into life cycle assessment of fish production

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Affiliated PhD Students

Minh Tu Nguyen

Research topic: Understanding the interaction between nutrient flows and aquatic polyculture management systems

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Administrative & Technical Staff

Marianne Bailleul

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 50

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Els Van Hende

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 62 37

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Patrick De Wispelaere

Tel: +32 (0)9 264 59 99

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Former Staff members and PhD dissertations

Margot Cooreman-Algoed

Dissertation: Integrating the environmental impact, food loss and waste, and nutritional characteristics to advance sustainability assessment of food systems (2024)

Laura Vittoria De Luca Peña

Dissertation: Sailing towards a sustainable Blue Economy: a quantitative and comprehensive environmental sustainability assessment (2024)

Sue Ellen Taelman

Research areas: Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), Marine activities, Bio-based economy, Material flow analysis

Dissertation: Environmental sustainability assessment of algae production systems: methodological development and case studies (2016)

Ligia da Silva Lima

Research topic: Critical raw materials and their role in the sustainable development and energy transition

Dissertation: Assessment of social and environmental impacts of the supply of contemporary and emerging critical raw materials for batteries (2023)

Martin Skelton

Research topic: Waste plastic treatment methods including chemical recycling, looking at resource and exergy efficiencies, implications for the possibility of circular process chains, and selection criteria for optimal treatment of various waste streams

Dissertation: Exploring the potential environmental performance of pyrolytic chemical recycling for waste plastics

María Fernanda Godoy León

Research topic: Modellling of material, energy and exergy exchanges within the technosphere for the development of circularity indicators

Dissertation: Societal metabolism of cobalt in the EU (2022)

Hina Habib

Research topic: Secondary raw materials from the Urban Mine: Understanding E-waste contribution to environmental sustainability

Ozan Kocak

Research topic: Sustainability assessment of innovative technologies

Bilge Bas

Research topic: life cycle assessment of marine activities and sustainable marine ecosystem services

Natalia Andrea Cano Londono

Research topic: life cycle sustainability assessment, product circularity

Jordy Motte

Dissertation: Evaluation of wasted and widely available methane sources into C3 chemicals: environmental sustainability assessment (2023)

Maíra Caetano de Andrade

Research topic: Prospective life cycle assessment of technological solutions to reduce fossil dependence in the chemical sector

Astrid Buchmayr

Dissertation: Development and application of a holistic sustainability assessment of energy technologies (2023)

Michel Xocaira Paes

Research topic: life cycle assessment, circular economy, waste management, cities and climate change

Nils Préat

Research topic: Environmental sustainability of marine biomass

Dissertation: Development of environmental impact assessment methods for marine sourced products (2021)

Ajinkya Powar

Research topic: life cycle assessment of novel and modular chemo-enzymatic processes

Kerstin Kleinhans

Research topic: Searching for replicable strategies and solutions that are able to increase plastic recycling rates in urban environments from 20-30% to over 50% by unlocking the use of 'lost plastics' as secondary resources

Gustavo Longaray Moraga

Research topic: Circularity indicators for products and materials

Dissertation: Development of circular economy indicators starting from the in-use occupation of materials (2021)

Rodrigo Alvarenga

Research areas: LCA method development, Bio-based economy, Raw materials

Dissertation: Environmental sustainability of biobased products: new assessment methods and case studies (2013)

Philipp Kehrein

Research topic: Sustainable urban water management: Wastewater resource recovery, value creation, process design

David Sanjuan Delmas

Research areas: LCA method development, Circular economy, Waste management, Aquaculture

Didem Civancik Uslu

Research areas: LCA method development, Plastics, Packaging, Eco-design, Circular economy

Pieter Nachtergaele

Dissertation: Converting a challenge into an opportunity: optimization of fatty acid production from variable feedstocks via process modelling (2021)

Lieselot Boone

Dissertation: Quantification of agricultural productivity in environmental sustainability assessments: methodological developments (2019)

Gabriela Rentería Gámiz

Dissertation: Expanding the knowledge of environmental sustainability in the biopharmaceutical industry: from manufacturing technologies to supply chain (2019)

Sophie Sfez

Dissertation: Resource efficiency evaluation of the introduction of resource recovery technologies in the bio-based economy (2018)

Phuong Ha Tran

Dissertation: The fate of e-waste in Vietnam: environmental evaluation of the current situation and the way forward (2018)

Sam Debaveye

Dissertation: The patient benefit and environmental burden of pharmaceutical treatments: a comprehensive assessment of Human Health (2018)

Maarten Christis

Dissertation: Macroscopic assessment of material flows in Flanders based on input-output tables (2018)

Thuy Trang Nhu

Dissertation: Environmental sustainability assessment of fish products from aquaculture in Vietnam: a focus on Pangasius hypophthalmus (2017)

Wouter De Soete

Dissertation: Advancing environmental sustainability assessment in the pharmaceutical industry (2016)

Sofie Huysman

Dissertation: Analysis and development of indicators for a sustainable use of natural resources in a life cycle perspective (2016)

Sophie Huysveld

Dissertation: Exergy-based natural resource accounting in sustainability assessment of agricultural production systems (2016)

Xander Van Doorslaer

Dissertation: Advanced oxidation of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in water by heterogeneous photocatalysis (2014)

Ernesto Luis Barrera Cardoso

Dissertation: Anaerobic digestion of a very high strength and sulfate-rich vinasse: from experiments to modeling and sustainability (2014)

Thomas Schaubroeck

Dissertation: Including man-nature relationships in environmental sustainability assessment of forest-based production systems (2014)

Pilar Swart

Dissertation: Resource sustainability assessment of the use of non-ferrous metals in advanced materials applications (2013)

Steven De Meester

Dissertation: Life cycle assessment in biorefineries: case studies and methodological development (2013)

Olga Pokorska

Dissertation: Biogenic volatile organic compound analysis from selected European deciduous and coniferous tree species: composition and emission rate (2012)

Yannay Casas Ledon

Dissertation: Introduction of advanced technology (solide oxide fuel cell) in the sugarcane industry: technical and sustainability analysis (2012)

Eva Joo

Dissertation: Characterization of stress induced changes in Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound (BVOC) emissions from Fagus sylvatica and Pseudotsuga menziesii (2011)

Charles Kyuti Nzila

Dissertation: Potential of biogas production from biowaste in Kenya and its contribution to environmental sustainability (2011)

Bavo De Witte

Dissertation: Advanced oxidation of quinolone antibiotics in water by ozone and the peroxone process (2010)

Geert Van der Vorst

Dissertation: Development of a tool for the environmental evaluation of the resource and energy consumption in the pharmaceutical industry at the process, plant and system level (2010)

Wouter Van Hecke

Dissertation: Development of a gas/liquid membrane contactor for oxygen delivery in enzymatic conversions (2009)