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PhD public defense of Rebeka Balogh

The public defense of the PhD in Sociology (VUB) and PhD in Employment Research (University of Warwick) by Rebeka Balogh will take place on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 15.00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Main Campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels in Building D, Room D.2.01. This PhD is part of a cooperation agreement between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Warwick. The PhD thesis is called “The Quality of Employment (Trajectories) and the Mental Health and Mortality of Women and Men. Evidence from Belgium and the UK.”. Promotors: prof. Christophe Vanroelen , PhD (VUB), prof. Sylvie Gadeyne , PhD (VUB) and prof. Chris Warhust , PhD (University of Warwick) The abstract is available here .

Pleinlaan 2 Building D, Room D.2.01 1050 Brussels Belgium

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PhD public defense by Daan Vermassen

The public defense of the PhD in Political Science by Daan Vermassen will take place on Friday September 22, 2023 at 14.00 hour at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Main Campus Etterbeek, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels in Building D, Room D.2.01.

The PhD thesis is called “Democratic Institutions and Long-Term Action: Exploring the Institutional Antecedents of Presentism and Intergenerational Justice”.

Supervisor: prof. Didier Caluwaerts, PhD (VUB)

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PhD Defense Koert Debeuf

ETHU member Koert Debeuf defends his PhD dissertation titled 'Latin Averroism: What was the influence of Averroes on European philosophy and why has it disappeared from European history of philosophy? A history of ideas and a history of history of ideas.'

The defense can be attended through Zoom. Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83564365534?pwd=SWZxV3BqUEZTL0FqZk1WTXE3N1FYQT09

For more information on the PhD, click here .

Public PhD Defence Philippe Giron

The public PhD defence of Philippe GIRON entitled “Exploiting genomic vulnerabilities in lung cancer for therapeutic targeting” will take place on Tuesday, 3 May 2022 at 5 p.m. in Auditorium Vanden Driessche, building A, VUB – Brussels Health Campus Jette. More info can be found in the folder.

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PhD Defense of Jana Goyvaerts

On Monday the 13th of November, Jana Goyvaers successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: “We Need To Talk About How We Talk About Populism: The signifier populism and discursive struggles about democracy in the Belgian press”. This PhD was completed under the supervision of ECHO co-director prof. dr. Benjamin De Cleen (VUB). The members of the jury were:

• prof. dr. Joke Bauwens (VUB) - Chair
• prof. dr. Ike Picone (VUB)
• prof. dr. Emmy Eklundh (Cardiff University)
• prof. dr. Giorgos Katsambekis (EKKE)

Congratulations again to dr. Jana Goyvaerts!

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Fariza Badloe, PhD-defense expected in January 2024.

Shauni De Vriese started her PhD-studies in January 2022. Expected PhD-defense around January 2026. 

Hafsa Belasri started her PhD-studies in October 2022. Expected PhD-defense around October 2026.

Lisa Huygen started her PhD-studies in July 2023. Her PhD studies in combination with her dermatology residency is expected to be finished in 2028.

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)  conducts a wide variety of research on migration and diversity, spread over many disciplines, departments and research institutes. This interdisciplinary group, called the  ‘Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM)’  joins over 100 VUB researchers from 11 disciplines  (including political science, law, sociology, criminology, geography, medical sciences, communication sciences, linguistics, psychology and educational sciences, philosophy, and history)  working on migration, minorities and diversity related topics.  BIRMM is co-directed by Prof. Ilke Adam and Prof. Florian Trauner (both  B SoG-VUB ) and a board of delegates with one representative per research centre or department. It is coordinated by  dr. Hannah Vermaut .  The main VUB research centres and departments involved in BIRMM are: the Brussels School of Goverance ( BSoG ), and in particular its research  Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice ; the History Department, with its research centre  HOST ; Sociology Department, with its research centres  TOR  and  Interface Demography ; the Political Science Department ( POLI );  BRIO , the centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Brussels, the  Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research , the  RHEA  Centre for Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, the Criminology department with its research centre  Crime & Society , the Law department, with its research centre  FRC  (Fundamental Rights and Constitutionalism) and the Department of Public Law, the Department for Communication Sciences, with its research centre  ECHO  (Media, Culture and Politics), and the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, with its new reseach group 'Research into Diversity in Health Care'.

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College of engineering, ph.d. dissertation defense - soobum kim, related links.

Title :  Coverage Control for Constrained Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Teams

Dr. Samuel Coogan, ECE, Chair, Advisor

Dr. Magnus Egerstedt, Irvine, Co-Advisor

Dr. Fumin Zhang, ECE

Dr. Yorai Wardi, ECE

Dr. Mario Santillo, Ford

Dr. Shreyas Kousik, ME

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PhD Dissertation Defense: Gwanggyu Sun

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Thursday, July 25, 2024 2:30pm PT

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Title : Model-driven discovery through a whole-cell computational model of Escherichia coli

Abstract : Throughout many scientific and engineering disciplines, mathematical models have been pivotal in helping scientists and engineers better understand complicated systems, develop hypotheses, predict behaviors, and make model-guided discoveries. The E. coli whole-cell modeling project aims to bring this approach into biology by constructing a detailed mathematical representation of the most well-characterized system in biology — the E. coli cell. The whole-cell model is composed of multiple, smaller submodels that each represent a particular biological process within an E. coli cell, which are then integrated into a larger model that can simulate the growth of the entire cell under multiple environments. In total, the model incorporates more than 19,000 heterogeneous parameters gathered from decades of research performed on this model organism. The whole-cell modeling team within the Covert Lab has been leading this project for more than ten years.

In my Ph.D. defense, I will first describe how the E. coli whole-cell model was built and our general strategy for using the model in model-driven discovery. Next, I will share my efforts in building data pipelines between the whole-cell model and EcoCyc, the largest online database for E. coli, to streamline the curation of model parameters and broadly share the model outputs to the scientific community. Lastly, I will present how the whole-cell model was updated to account for E. coli's transcription unit structures, and highlight the discoveries I made during this process.

Please contact  Madelyn Bernstein  for the Zoom link

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Statistics Ph.D. Dissertation Defense - Ciara Nugent

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This 2024 Dissertation Defense will be held on Friday, July 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. with Ciara Nugent. This event will be virtual. If you need the Zoom link, please email [email protected].  

Title : A Decision Theoretic Approach to Combining Inference Across Data Sources with Applications to Subgroup Analysis in Clinical Trials

Advisor : Peter Mueller

Abstract : Many research questions can not be answered by a single scientific study or source of data.  To address this challenge, researchers develop principled ways to combine information from multiple studies to reach a conclusion. A very common instance of this problem is the combination of results across multiple clinical studies, commonly known as meta-analysis, usually with the understanding that results from individual studies are only available as published summary statistics. In this thesis I consider principled Bayesian decision theoretic approaches to the general problem of combining inference across multiple studies. After a discussion of the general problem I focus on the particular example that arises when the desired inference is subgroup analysis, that is, inference about how results for subpopulations of interest differ from the results of the larger study population.  In the last chapter I consider an extension to a typical meta-analysis problem. Methodologically, the proposed solutions start with a decision theoretic approach to combining inference from two studies through the use of a utility function. Building on this foundation I then consider a more complex utility function for Bayesian population finding. Finally, expanding upon the same utility function I then consider more than two studies to propose a similar solution for a general meta-analysis problem.

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You do your doctorate with one goal in mind: to obtain a doctoral degree. This is the highest degree you can obtain at a Flemish university. As a doctoral student, you mainly conduct research, combined with teaching assignments.

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You gain a great deal of experience during your doctoral study programme : you attend conferences, give presentations, and publish scientific articles. You will have the opportunity to immerse yourself in a subject that fascinates you and acquire skills that are particularly useful on the job market. A doctorate is a decisive step in your career, both in and outside the academic world. 

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