We are super proud of our four PhD students, who were each awarded a highly competitive FWO PhD Fellowship last month!
Read more about their exciting research projects below
Clara Zelinsky
Each day 5 truckloads worth of extraterrestrial dust, so called micrometeorites, arrive to Earth carrying elements that are rare in Earth’s crust and mantle! I will investigate how these micrometeorites might contribute to the elemental evolution of our Earth and other rocky planets.
Paulien Wouters
The ‘Dealing with death’ project will investigate the factors that contributed to the choice of burial practice within the Roman Empire. It adopts a multiproxy, comparative framework on cremations and inhumations to investigate how funerary identity was shaped, integrating demographic, biological, socioeconomic, and regional factors.
Gitte Stoffels
Rivers shift. Lakes emerge. Landscapes transform. Tracing how climate, tectonics, and human activity have shaped Larnaca Bay, Cyprus, over thousands of years.
Phoenix Heylighen
With Project GAP, I’m looking into the architecture of our solar system back when planets were just starting to form out of dust. I’ll try to answer the question how many separate rings of dust were swirling around the Sun back then, and why they may have mixed or stayed apart.
