PhD Alumni

Geesje Duursma
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Hospitality in organizations working with host volunteers: Concepts, Theory, Evidence and Implications
Defended: 10 October 2024

Jens Kaus
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: The role of sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate-entrepreneur collaborations in a Circular Economy
Defended: 12 September 2024

Valerija Golubic
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: How do social enterprises create social value? Theory and evidence from work integration and healthcare enterprises
Defended: 12 September 2024

Hilde de Vries
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Bile acid metabolism in health and disease. Development, characterization and application of mouse models for (neonatal) cholestatic liver disease
Defended: 27 June 2024

Franka van den Hende
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Curriculum internationalisation: a dynamic organisational change process
Defended: 20 June 2024

Dionne Sizoo
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Obesity and muscle: measurement methods and comorbidities
Defended: 13 June 2024

Abe Hendriks
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Imagined circularities: understanding the politics of transitions to a circular economy
Defended: 30 May 2024

Eko Rahmadian
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Big data & Digital Twin technologies for smart and sustainable tourism
Defended: 15 March 2024

Anno Bunnik
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Policing the future? Assessing the mobilisation of Big Data by UK law enforcement
Defended: 15 March 2024

Selen Eren
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Mobilizing tensions for action: How to reconfigure knowledge infrastructures of data-centric ecology in a time of crise
Defended: 14 March 2024

Edith Visser
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Diet and body composition in asthma
Defended: 12 October 2023

Bram van Vulpen
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Politics out of place
Defended: 4 October 2023

Beorn Nijenhuis
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Is skater's cramp a task-specific dystonia?
Defended: 13 June 2023

Anniek Heerschop
Faculty: University of Groningen / UMCG
Thesis: Triggering a change
Defended: 17 May 2023

Merel van den Broek
Faculty: University of Groningen - UMCG / MCL
Thesis: Nutritional opportunities and challenges after bariatric surgery
Defended: 8 May 2023

Bianca Dijkstra
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Multilingualism in the Dutch logistics sector
Defended: 28 April 2023

Hellen Dawo
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Investigating sustainable entrepreneurship in a protected area
Defended: 19 April 2023

Femke Vrenegoor
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: SME Tourism Entrepreneurs: Why do they do what they do
Defended: 14 April 2023

Lise Beumeler
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: I see you: Unravelling pathways of recovery after critical illness
Defended: 9 March 2023

Wido Heeman
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Clinical translation of laser speckle contrast imaging - cum laude
Defended: 16 December 2022

Nika Stefan
Faculty: University of Amsterdam / Fryske Akademy
Thesis: Spoken Frisian: Language contact, variation and change
Defended: 24 October 2022, 14.00-15.30, Martinikerk Franeker

Hamed Seddighi
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Children’s preparedness for disasters : policy analysis and process evaluation of disaster preparedness programs in Iran
Defended: 2 September 2022

Manon Eikelenboom
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Achieving sustainability together: Stakeholder collaboration for corporate sustainability and the circular economy
Defended: 3 February 2022

Vincent Boswijk
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis:  The salient elephant in the room
Defended: 17 March 2022

Jesse van Amelsvoort
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: A Europe of connections: post-national worlds in contemporary minority literature
Defended on: 18 November 2021

Vass Verkhodanova
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: More than words: Recognizing speech of people with Parkinson's disease
Defended on: 4 November 2021

Anne Merkuur
Faculty: University of Amsterdam / Fryske Akademy
Thesis: Changes in modern Frisian verbal inflection
Defended: 18 October 2021

Hendrik Thelken
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Thinking Apart and Together: the role of cognition in managing multiple goals in sustainable enterprises
Defended on: 26 August 2021

Renske Lok
Faculty: University of Groningen, Science and Engineering / Philips
Thesis: Grasping light: mental and physiological responses to illumination
Defended: 9 July 2021

Margo Enthoven
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Unpacking opportunity recognition for sustainable entrepreneurship
Defended on: 18 March 2021

Susana Figueroa Lozano
Faculty: University of Groningen - Medical Sciences / Dairy Campus
Thesis: Modulating the immune system and intestinal barrier integrity with functional oligosaccharides
Defended on: 2 February 2021

Richard Rijnks
Faculty: University of Groningen - Spatial Sciences/Stenden, Waddenacademie
Thesis: Subjective well-being in a spatial context
Defended on: 8 October 2020

Marjanne van der Hoek
Faculty: Wageningen University & Research/Van Hall Larenstein/MCL
Thesis: Carnitine metabolism in relation to physical performance and cognition in aging
Defended on: 14 April 2020

Angela Greco
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Changing for good: transforming existing organizations into sustainable enterprises
Defended on: 16 September 2020

Beau Warbroek
Faculty: University of Twente
Thesis: The energy transition from below: the succes and governance of local low-carbon energy initiatives
Defended on: 6 September 2019

Monique de Ritter
Faculty: Campus Fryslân
Thesis: Mission-driven entrepreneurship in ecosystems for sustainable systems change
Defended on: 29 August 2019

Cindy Klootwijk
Faculty: Wageningen University/Diary Campus
Thesis: Keys to sustainable grazing
Defended on: 7 June 2019

Maia Lordkipanidze
Faculty: UTwente
Thesis: Governance for Resilience: Assessing how governance influences implementation of resilience measures in nature areas
Defended on: 11 April 2019

Abhigyan Singh
Faculty: TU Delft / NHL-Stenden
Thesis: Conceptualizing inter-household energy exchanges: An anthropology-through-design approach
Defended on: 16 January 2019

Hien Pham
Faculty: University of Groningen, Science and Engineering / Dairy Campus
Thesis: Synthesis and characterization of lactose and lactose derived oligosaccharides by glucansucrase and trans-sialidase enzymes.
Defended on: 7 December 2018

Jorge Ricardo Cunha
Faculty: Wageningen University / Wetsus
Thesis: Anaerobic calcium phosphate bio granulation
Defended on: 30 November 2018.

Jelle Krol
Faculty: University of Groningen/Tresoar
Thesis: Combative Minority Literature Writers in the Aftermath of the Great War
Defended on: 26 June 2018

Sine Celik
Faculty: TU Delft/NHL
Thesis: On the Paradoxical Nature of Innovation: Evidence from Social Networks in Fryslân
Defended on: 20 June 2018

Jasper Heslinga
Faculty: Stenden/Waddenacademie/University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences
Thesis: Synergetic tourism-landscape interactions. Policy, public discourse and partnerships.
Defended on: 11 January 2018

Jeroen Onrust
Faculty: Waddenacademie/University of Groningen, Faculty of Science and Engineering
Thesis: Earthworm availability as key for the presence of wintering, migrating and breeding meadow birds
Defended on: 15 December 2017

Obinna, Uche
Faculty: TU Delft
Thesis: Smart Grids, development at the low voltage household and residential areas
Defended on: 20 November 2017

Bosma, Evelyn
Faculty: University of Amsterdam/Fryske Akademy
Thesis: Bilingualism and cognition: the acquisition of Frisian and Dutch
Defended on: 2 October 2017

Jeuring, Jelmer
Faculty: University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences/Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Thesis: Perspectives on proximity tourism in Fryslân
Defended on: 6 June 2017

de Valença, Joeri
Faculty: University of Twente/Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology
Thesis: Interfacial phenomena during overlimiting electrodialysis
Defended on: 10 March 2017

Casadella, Anna
Faculty: Faculty of mathematics and natural sciences/Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology
Thesis: Ion-selective membranes for the recovery of ammonium and potassium
Defended on: 1 April, 2016