Alumni

Thomas Parmentier (postdoc)
Thomas studied communities of organisms living in ant nests (myrmecophiles), focusing on their dispersal, food webs and stability.

Léa Beaumelle (postdoc)
Léa used meta-analyses to study how chemical stressors and nutrients affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions such as litter decomposition.

Jurg Spaak (PhD student and postdoc)
Jurg worked on species coexistence theory, proposing a new definition of niche and fitness differences and extending it to higher-order and facilitative interactions.

Zhao Qinghua (PhD student and postdoc)
Qinghua studied how biodiversity, food web structure and temperature relate to the stability of aquatic food webs.

Javier Jarillo (postdoc)
Javier studied how stability scales across space and ecological levels in spatially structured community networks.

Jan Baert (PhD student and postdoc)
Jan studied how environmental stress changes the effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning, using experiments with diatom communities.

Devdutt Kulkarni (postdoc)

Arunima Sikder (PhD student)
Arunima studied how acclimation shapes the responses of phytoplankton populations and communities to environmental stress and fluctuations, and their recovery from it.

Camille Carpentier (Master student and PhD student)
Camille studied the structure of food webs, including how the number of feeding links scales with the number of species.

Hélène Voahanginirina (PhD student)
Hélène studied how human activities in the Ankavia river basin (Madagascar) affect water quality, invertebrate and diatom communities, and organic matter decomposition.

Tessa de Bruin (PhD student)
Tessa studied how ciliate populations respond to climate change and pollution, linking demographic responses to changes in traits.

Mark Holmes (PhD student)
Mark studied the persistence, coexistence and adaptation of competitive communities subject to environmental change.

Daniel Oluwafemi Olusoji (PhD student)
Daniel studied the effects of temperature on intraspecific diversity in cyanobacteria and developed analytical tools to quantify it.

Sanne Van den Berg (PhD student)
Sanne studied how species traits can be used to predict the sensitivity of aquatic macroinvertebrates to chemicals.

Wouter Reyns (PhD student)
Wouter studied soil carbon sequestration in heathlands and how climate change affects it through its effects on fungi.

Jonathan De Raedt (PhD student)
Jonathan studied the combined effects of dispersal and chemical stress on the composition, diversity and productivity of marine microalgae communities.

Karel Viaene (PhD student)
Karel developed ecological models to make the risk assessment of chemicals more realistic, for example by accounting for species interactions.

Christoph Mensens (PhD student)
Christoph studied the effects of chemical stress across trophic levels at the base of marine food webs.

Lisette de Hoop (PhD student)
Lisette evaluated models of chemical exposure and effects in aquatic species, including the uptake and toxicity of oil constituents.

Pham Viet Anh (PhD student)

Johanna Hernandez (Master student)

Maxime Lothier (Master student)

Benoit Ficart (Master student)

Charles Leriche (Master student)
Charles studied how dispersal promotes coexistence in cyanobacterial metacommunities under environmental heterogeneity.

Robin Réveillon (Master student)

Nicola Mauro (Master student)
Nicola studied how acclimation to population density affects traits and population growth in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus.

Jannika Elfert (Master student)

Lisa Buche (Master student)

Noémie Miserque (Master student)

Razevason Mahatsangy (Master student)

Elif Kardas (Master student)

Antoine Pouillon (Master student)

Nelson Desjardin (Master student)

Raphael Hacquin (Master student)

Zequiri Meritan (Master student)

Benjamin Dujardin (Master student)

Carol-Ann Schmit (Master student)
Carol-Ann described and modelled how declining food resources affect the biological community of the Meuse river in Belgium and France.

GUPIE Ako Stephane (Master student)

Kamani Kouam Nouria (Master student)

Visiting researchers

Yun Li

Chaoyue Cheng

Shangsheng Sun
Shangsheng studied how multiple environmental stressors affect multi-trophic biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality.