Staff and students

Head of the lab

Prof. dr. ir. Hans Verbeeck

Prof. dr. ir. Kim Calders

Scientific staff (Post Doc) 

dr. ir. Marijn Bauters

dr. ir. Félicien Meunier

Scientific staff (Support)

dr. Kim Jacobsen

MSc. Lodewijk Lefevre

Scientific staff (PhD)

MSc. Xingyan Cao

ir. Barbara D'hont

MSc. Chang Liu

MSc. Franklin Geovanny Marin Molina

MSc. Shilin Chen

ir. Thomas Sibret

ir. Louise Terryn

ir. Tom Verhelst

MSc. Inès dos Santos Vieira

MSc. Mengxi Wang

ir. Kasper Coppieters

MSc. Quan Pan

MSc. Xi Peng

ir. Wout Cherlet

ir. Wouter Van den Broeck

MSc. Zane Cooper

Secretary

Anabelle Michiels

Faculty of bioscience engineering, Campus Coupure
+32 (0) 9 264 61 36
Anabelle.Michiels@UGent.be

External scientific staff members

dr. ir. Hannes De Deurwaerder

Princeton University
Hannes.DeDeurwaerder@UGent.be

dr. ir. Sruthi Krishna Moorthy

University of Maryland
sruthi.krishnamoorthyparvathi@UGent.be

dr. ir. Francis Mumbanza Mundondo

dr. Marc Peaucelle

INRAE (Bordeaux, FR)

dr. Wim Verbruggen

University of Copenhagen

wv@ign.ku.dk

Master students 2022-2023

Carole Amrom - Carbon stock assessment of agroforestry systems in the Eastern Province of Rwanda
James Counye
- How do lianas influence the radiation balance and the water cycle of tropical forests? A case study in a tropical forest
Line Van Der Sichel
- How do lianas influence the radiation balance and the water cycle of tropical forests? A case study in a tropical forest
Emma De Clerck
- Herbebossen in de Andes in Zuid Ecuador: wat kan beter? (Zuid Ecuador)
Marike Sobry
- Herbebossen in de Andes in Zuid Ecuador: wat kan beter? (Zuid Ecuador)
Thomas Meul
- Herstel de Andes: natuurlijk herstel van bergregenwouden in de Andes (Noord Ecuador)
Marie Vanhuylenckrouck
- Recovery of functional and genetic diversity in secondary cloudforests in the Andes (North Ecuador)
Justine Luca
- Back to the future: linking historic climate data with contemporary big data initiatives in the Congo Basin
Aurélie Vandenbussche
- Can forest dieback be mapped using satellite and UAV imagery
Ine Colman
- Water Use Efficiency in Congo basin forests
Renéé Stockx
- Water Use Efficiency in Congo basin forests
Sara Motte
- Carbon Sequestration and Untangling Forest History in Yangambi (D.R. Congo): Gained Insights through Rediscovery of Historical Forest Inventory Data

Former lab members

dr. ir. Jean-François Bastin (Associate Prof. Gembloux, Agro-Biotech)

dr. Manfredo Di Porcia

dr. ir. Marie Combe

dr. ir. Yunfei Bao

dr. ir. Jackie Epila (Lecturer at Lira University, Uganda)

dr. ir. Miro Demol

David Ellsworth (Western Sydney University)

International Collen-Francqui professor 2022-2023

MSc. Tao Chen

dr. Joseph Okello