2024

• Joe El Rahi (2024): Numerical modelling of wave-flexible vegetation interactions using the smoothed particle hydrodynamics method

     2023

• Jens Boyen (2023): Polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in copepods: a mechanism for climate change resilience
• Evelyn Paredes (2023): Understanding dimensions of ocean literacy in the European maritime industry for a sustainable blue economy
• Mirta Zupan (2023): Towards optimizing the opportunities and minimizing the risks of offshore wind farms for the benthic environment
• Helena Voet (2023): Combined effects of climate change, offshore wind farms and aquaculture on marine ecosystem functioning
• Ellen Vlaminck (2023): Ecosystem functioning in offshore windfarms: integrating ocean warming and acidification effects on macrofauna ecophysiology, behavior and biogeochemistry
• Jolien Goossens (2023): European seabass in the southern North Sea: a story of electronic tags, movement ecology and environmental policy
• Rodgee Mae Guden (2023): Linking marine nematode competition dynamics with microbial diversity to understand ecosystem functioning

     2021

• Nils Préat (2021): Development of environmental impact assessment methods for marine sourced products
• Emil De Borger (2021): Effects of natural processes and human activity on North Sea sediment biogeochemistry

     2020

• Ruy Miguel Alfama Lopes Dos Santos (2020): Halophilic bacteria and archaea as food sources for the brine shrimp Artemia sp.
• Ivan Loaiza Alamo (2020): Marine species associated to Peruvian scallop Argopecten purpuratus culture: trophic interactions and contaminant exposure
• Thomas Kerkhove (2020): Ecological and genetic basis for sustainable fishery of the Atlantic seabob shrimp Xiphopenaeus kroyeri in the Guianan Ecoregion, South America
• Ninon Mavraki (2020): Organic matter assimilation by hard substrate fauna in an offshore wind farm area: a pulse study
• Stijn Bruneel (2020): Integrating innovative fish monitoring and data analysis to support management of aquatic ecosystems

     2019

• Lara Macheriotou (2019): Community structure of deep-sea nematodes: a metabarcoding approach
• Anna-Maria Vafeiadou (2019): Species coexistence of marine nematodes: environmental conditions, resource utilisation and microhabitat partitioning as possible drivers of niche differentiation
• Xiaoyu Fang (2019): Bioturbation in estuarine sediments: modelling macrofauna-mediated oxygen dynamics
• Xiuqin Wu (2019): Drivers of nematode community structure and of nematode microbiomes on an estuarine intertidal flat

     2018

• Lisa Mevenkamp (2018): Experimental assessment of the response of meiobenthos to disturbance associated with atmospheric carbon increase and mineral extraction

• Ines Gomes (2018): Connectivity and biological valuation: tools to assess the ecological coherence of networks of marine protected areas
• Qian Huang (2018): Effects of non-indigenous species mariculture on benthic ecosystems in Bohai Sea, China

• Rita Melo Franco Santos (2018): Zooplankton performance in a changing ocean: adaptive capacities to a shifting food regime in the North Sea
• Ee Zin Ong (2018): Behavioural and ecophysiological responses of marine benthos to ocean acidification and warming
• Joey Geneviève Martinez (2018): Nematodes as bio-indicators of environmental impacts of mining activities in the Philippines: a study using field and laboratory approaches
• Sebastiaan Mestdagh (2018): Functional roles of benthic macrofauna in sediment biogeochemistry across natural and anthropogenic gradients
• Pieterjan Verhelst (2018): European eel (Anguilla anguilla L.) movement behaviour in relation to habitat fragmentation: novel insights inferred from acoustic telemetry

     2017

• Valentina Filimonova (2017): The effects of anthropogenic stressors on the food quality in estuarine systems

• Christina Pavloudi (2017): Microbial community functioning at hypoxic sediments revealed by targeted metagenomics and RNA stable isotope probing
• Renata Mamede da Silva Alves (2017): Spatial structure and temporal dynamics of an intertidal population of the marine ecosystem engineering worm Lanice conchilega (Pallas, 1766)

• Sofia Ramalho (2017): Tolerance of deep-sea benthic ecosystems to trawling disturbance
• Narjes Sahraean (2017): Biodiversity and community structure of free-living marine nematodes from intertidal areas in the Persian Gulf
• Veronica Lo (2017): Effects of human pressures on ecosystem structure, functioning and services in salt marshes

     2016

• Tomas Willems (2016): An ecosystem approach to fisheries management: the Atlantic seabob shrimp (Xiphopenaeus kroyeri) in Suriname

• Martina Maric (2016): Non-indigenous species in the Mediterranean marine protected areas: diversity, distribution and impacts

• Eva Werbrouck (2016): Fatty acid dynamics in harpacticoid copepods at the basis of marine food webs

• Christoph Mensens (2016): Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in stressed environments: primary producers and consumers at the basis of marine food webs
• Freija Hauquier (2016): Environmental and spatial constraints on Antarctic marine nematode distribution

• Lidia Lins (2016): The importance of benthic-pelagic coupling and spatial variability for deep-sea meiofauna
• Nele De Meester (2016): Unravelling coexistence of cryptic Litoditis marina species

     2015

• Francesca Pasotti (2015): Impact of climate-induced dynamics on a coastal benthic ecosystem from the West Antarctic Peninsula

• Jelle VanCampenhout (2015): Multidimensional assessment of environmental adaptation of cryptic Halomonhystera (Nematoda) species from bathyal cold-seep- and intertidal habitats

• Rasha Sabeel (2015): Variation in distribution of Sudanese mangroves and their ecological significance for benthic fauna
• Thibaud Mascart (2015): Seagrass macrophytodetritus: a copepod hub: species diversity, dynamics and trophic ecology of the meiofauna community in Posidonia oceanica leaf litter accumulations

• Lies Vansteenbrugge (2015): The non-indigenous ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the southern North Sea: ecological and socio-economic effects related to its trophic position and the current distribution of gelatinous zooplankton

     2014

• Clio Cnudde (2014): Trophic ecology of intertidal harpacticoid copepods, with emphasis on their interactions with bacteria

     2013

• Ellen Pape  (2013): Biodiversity and function of nematodes in contrasting Southern European deep-sea environments

• Cosmas Munga (2013): Ecological and socio-economic assessment of Kenyan coastal fisheries: the case of Malindi-Ungwana Bay artisanal fisheries versus semi-industrial bottom trawling
• Pamela Fonderie (2013): Biology and evolutionary history of the facultative parasitic nematode Halicephalobus gingivalis: a multidisciplinary approach