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Ángel Estévez is a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology at Ghent University. He obtained his PhD title in Environmental Biotechnology at Delft University of Technology in December 2022. His PhD project, a collaboration between TU Delft and Wetsus, was focused on the use of municipal waste activated sludge for biopolymers…

Kim De Paepe is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Microbial Ecology and Technology (CMET, Ghent University). As a Bioscience Engineer, she applies and continues to engineer advanced human gut in vitro models to address fundamental questions in gut microbial ecology. Her research approach is functionality-driven and heavily relies on bioinformatics and statistics tools.…

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W. VERSTRAETE was born on April 25, 1946 in Beernem (Belgium). He graduated in 1968 from the Ghent University as bio-engineer. He followed a summer course on Soil Microbiology at the Pasteur Institute of Paris. In 1971, he obtained a Ph D degree in the field of microbiology at the Cornell University, Ithaca (USA). Since…

Tom Van de Wiele obtained an MSc degree in Bioscience Engineering from Ghent University in 2000 and a PhD degree in Applied Biological Sciences with Willy Verstraete – Ghent University – and Steven Siciliano – University of Saskatchewan – as supervisors. The FWO Flemish Science Foundation provided a postdoc fellowship and he started research work at LabMET…

Education Professional Activity Research My research aims to foster innovations in the field of bioremediation of different pollutants in both natural (focus on aquatic environments, especially in marine ecosystems) and engineered systems. To achieve this aim, I target elucidation of microbial community dynamics at the macroscale and microlevel changes in proteome along with modeling to…

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Education Working experience Research: Bacterial Activity Management (BAM!) group Research topics Publications discussing our work (with links) Services Web presence

Education Professional activities Research Since 2010, my research has been focused on anaerobic microbial processes. During my PhD, I studied renewable energy recovery through anaerobic digestion, with a focus on the methanogenic community. Both operational management strategies, e.g., feeding pattern variation and inoculum selection, and technological strategies, i.e., the application of a cell potential via…

Education Research interests Professional & Research Activities Bibliography and teaching Major professional involvements External services Specific research topic: sustainable water management and resource recovery Mission of our research group “THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS WASTE, LIQUID AND SOLID DISCHARGES SHOULD BE REGARDED AS ONE SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE OF WATER, ENERGY AND NUTRIENTS” Water scarcity is…