PhDs

Dr. Sara Marie Tori

Cultivating Collaborative Futures. Advancing Participatory Scenario Building in Transportation.

Promotors: prof. dr. Imre Keseru, prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & prof. dr. Geert te Boveldt
 

Dr. Shary Heuninckx

Boosting Energy Communities Through Comprehensive Stakeholder Engagement.

Promotoren: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis, prof. dr. ir. Thierry Coosemans & prof. dr. Geert te Boveldt

Dr. Alice De Séjournet De Rameignies

Disruptions in the Transition Towards Sustainable Urban Mobility. COVID-19 and Autonomous Vehicles.

Promotors: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke & prof. dr. Evy Rombaut

Dr. Manon Feys

User Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles and Stakeholder Evaluations on Their Potential Impact.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke

Dr. Liesbeth De Wilde

Employees’ Perspectives on Sustainable Corporate Policies: The Company Car and Its Alternatives.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & prof. dr. Imre Keserü

Dr. Maria Luisa Lode

Socio-technical Transformations for Decentralized Energy Systems: A Transition Study of Energy Communities.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis, prof. dr. Ir. Thierry Coosemans & dr. Geert te Boveldt

Dr. Jayanta Mandi

Towards Scalable Decision-Focused Learning for Combinatorial Optimization Problems.

Promotors: prof. dr. Sam Verboven & prof. dr. Tias Guns

Dr. Quentin De Clerck

Belgian Evolution and Future Perspectives on the Adoption of Electric Vehicles. A Study on Consumer Preferences and Barriers to Adoption.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke

Dr. Nicolas Brusselaers

The Impact of Off-Site Construction Transport on Air Quality.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & prof. dr. Koen Mommen

Dr. Canoy Rocsildes

Integrating Learned Preferences from Historical Solutions into Vehicle Routing.

Promotors: prof. dr. Yves Molenbruch & prof. dr. Tias Guns

Dr. Jesse Pappers 

Public Participation in Mobility Research and Mobility Planning. Leveraging the Habits, Desires, and Preferences of the Public.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Imre Keseru

Dr. He Huang

Stakeholder Involvement in Decision Making: The Development of a Mass Participation Tool.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Geert te Boveldt 

Dr. Natalie Lawrance

Cost-Sensitive Ensembles of Classifiers: Select Applications in HR Analytics.

Promotor: prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry

Dr. Lize Coenen

Machine Learning Methods with a Reject Option for Spot Factoring and Beyond.

Promotors: prof. dr. Vincent Ginis (VUB) & prof. dr. Tias Guns (KU Leuven & VUB)

Dr. Jean Mansuy

Circular Value Creation. An Incumbent Firms’ Perspective on the Circular Economy Transition.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & prof. dr. Philippe Lebeau

Dr. Marie Gruber

Just a Chip off the Same Block? A Multi-Perspective Approach to Researcher Identity Formation of PhD Students.

Promotors: prof. dr. Thomas Crispeels (VUB) & dr. Pablo D’Este (UPV Valencia) 

Dr. Fuseina Mahama Musah

Essays on Spatial Aspects of Consumer Behavior: Leveraging Insights from Consumer Mobility and Multi-Channel Shopping Behaviour to Inform Retail Location Decision.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke

Dr. Jente Van Belle

Essays on Demand Forecasting for Optimizing Operational Supply Chain Planning.

Promotors: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke (VUB), prof. dr. Wouter Verbeke (KU Leuven) & dr. Pieter Van Nyen (OMP) 

Dr. Kevin De Moortel

Think Global: An International Perspective on University Knowledge and Technology Transfer.

Promotor: prof. dr. Thomas Crispeels 

Dr. Sam Verboven

On Neural Networks and Decision Support. Optimising Human and Artificial Decision Making.

Promotors: prof. dr. Vincent Ginis (VUB) & prof. dr. Wouter Verbeke (KU Leuven) 

Dr. Diego Andres Olaya Lasso

Essays on Causal Machine Learning for Decision-Making.

Promotors: prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry (VUB) & prof. dr. Wouter Verbeke (KU Leuven)

Dr. Pieter-Jan Pauwelyn

Matrix Perturbations Preserving Spectral Properties and their Applications in Manpower Planning.

Promotor: prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry

Dr. Sheida Hadavi

Monitoring Transport with Big Data: Analysing Vehicle Behavior with ANPR and GPS Data.

Promotors: prof. dr. Mattias Guns & prof. dr. Cathy Macharis 

Dr. Floris Devriendt

Uplift Modeling: State-of-the-Art and Novel Approaches.

Promotor: prof. dr. Wouter Verbeke 

Dr. Koen Mommens

The Development of an Assessment Framework for Multimodal Freight Transport of Different Cargo-Types in Belgium.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Tom Van Lier 

Dr. José Evaldo Geraldo Costa

Mass Introduction of Electric Passenger Vehicles in Brazil: Impact Assessment on Energy Use, Climate Mitigation and on Charging Infrastructure Needs for Several Case Studies.

Promotors: prof. dr. Maria Júlia Fonseca Seixas (FCT NOVA) & prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke (VUB) 

Dr. Penelope Schoutteet

Consumer Spatial Behaviour and Retail Location Strategy: Choice and Agent-Based Simulation Models in an Omnichannel Environment.

Promotor: prof. dr. Lieselot Vanhaverbeke 

Dr. Tomas Ambra

A Decision Support System for Synchromodal Transport and the Physical Internet.

Promotors: prof. dr. An Caris (Uhasselt) & prof. dr. Cathy Macharis (VUB) 

Dr. Oussama Mazari Abdessameud

Military Manpower Planning: Combining and Optimizing Statutory and Competence Logics Models.

Promotors: prof. dr. Filip Van Utterbeeck (KMS) & prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry (VUB) 

Dr. Heleen Buldeo Rai

The Environmental Sustainability of the Last Mile in Omnichannel Retail.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Sara Verlinde 

Dr. Geert te Boveldt

All aboard? Towards a New Evaluation Approach for Institutionally Complex Transport Projects.

Promotors: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Imre Keseru

Dr. Evy Rombaut

'Improving Long Term Predictions in Manpower Planning through Classification and Accounting for Voluntary Turnover'

Promotor: prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry 

Dr. Bernard Kin

'The Fragmented Last Mile to Nanostores in Cities: A Stakeholder-Based Search for a Panacea'

Promotor: prof. dr. Cathy Macharis & dr. Sara Verlinde 

Dr. Tanja Verheyen

'Demotion, the End of a Taboo? Obstacles and Opportunities of Demotion in the Workplace'

Promotor: prof. dr. Marie-Anne Guerry