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Researcher
Luc Lens
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As
Promotor-spokesperson
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2027
Sociality in the Anthropocene: an experimental study of (pre)dispersal strategies in a cooperative-breeding bird
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
As
Administrative supervisor
09 November 2020 → 24 February 2023
Colonial breeding in a rapidly changing world
Doctoral researcher: Maria Salas Fernandez
11 February 2022 → 21 September 2025
Determinants and consequences of personality in Australasian gannets
Doctoral researcher: Aurore Counilh
29 August 2013 → 30 June 2020
Doctoral project Aimeric Teyssier
Doctoral researcher: Aimeric Teyssier
17 May 2022 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Alix Marit Ingrid Kristiansen
Doctoral researcher: Alix Marit Ingrid Kristiansen
11 March 2010 → 05 December 2013
Doctoral project Berber De Jong
Doctoral researcher: Berber De Jong
14 January 2021 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Bram Catfolis
Doctoral researcher: Bram Catfolis
11 October 2017 → 22 September 2019
Doctoral project Brigitte Heylen
Doctoral researcher: Brigitte Heylen
07 November 2013 → 03 September 2018
Doctoral project Cátia Sofia Andrade Dos Santos
Doctoral researcher: Cátia Sofia Andrade Dos Santos
01 July 2016 → 26 September 2021
Doctoral project Céline Kowalczyk
Doctoral researcher: Céline Kowalczyk
17 September 2007 → 21 December 2011
Doctoral project Charlotte De Busschere
Doctoral researcher: Charlotte De Busschere
02 February 2015 → 19 February 2021
Doctoral project Daan Dekeukeleire
Doctoral researcher: Daan Dekeukeleire
09 September 2009 → 12 December 2016
Doctoral project Davy Bosman
Doctoral researcher: Davy Bosman
03 July 2013 → 07 February 2019
Doctoral project Dries Van de Loock
Doctoral researcher: Dries Van de Loock
19 January 2017 → 22 September 2019
Doctoral project Evelyne Demol
Doctoral researcher: Evelyne Demol
08 October 2015 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Gelaye Duguma
Doctoral researcher: Gelaye Duguma
20 August 2013 → 24 September 2017
Doctoral project Ilona Thewissen
Doctoral researcher: Ilona Thewissen
05 December 2011 → 26 November 2012
Doctoral project Jacob Willie
Doctoral researcher: Jacob Willie
25 October 2013 → 05 November 2020
Doctoral project Laurence Cousseau
Doctoral researcher: Laurence Cousseau
27 September 2012 → 21 September 2014
Doctoral project Lies Ghysels
Doctoral researcher: Lies Ghysels
05 August 2013 → 28 June 2019
Doctoral project Luc Roscelin Tédonzong Dongmo
Doctoral researcher: Luc Roscelin Tédonzong Dongmo
12 November 2020 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Marina Sentis Vila
Doctoral researcher: Marina Sentis Vila
11 September 2015 → 15 May 2020
Doctoral project Marwa Kavelaars
Doctoral researcher: Marwa Kavelaars
13 November 2020 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Mélibée Morel
Doctoral researcher: Mélibée Morel
17 October 2013 → 30 August 2017
Doctoral project Noraine Binti Salleh Hudin
Doctoral researcher: Noraine Binti Salleh Hudin
19 September 2011 → 01 March 2020
Doctoral project Tom Rosendahl Larsen
Doctoral researcher: Tom Rosendahl Larsen
28 March 2017 → 25 September 2022
Doctoral project Walesa Edho Prabowo
Doctoral researcher: Walesa Edho Prabowo
02 October 2018 → 25 September 2022
Doctoral project Yvonne Lawrie
Doctoral researcher: Yvonne Lawrie
24 October 2022 → 21 September 2025
Effects of urbanization on early-life development of birds
Doctoral researcher: Jolien Van Malderen
19 August 2021 → 10 September 2024
Foraging ecology of black-faced cormorants
Doctoral researcher: Thomas Cansse
18 January 2021 → 22 September 2024
From the tropics to the temperate zone - a comprehensive exploration of thermoregulation in small passerines
Doctoral researcher: Cesare Pacioni
22 September 2017 → 27 April 2023
Local and landscape-level effects on Ethiopian church forest biodiversity and implications for forest ecosystem services
Doctoral researcher: Ferehiwot Admassie
28 October 2024 → 21 September 2025
Mechanistic insights into climate change effects on tropical forest birds
Doctoral researcher: Ran Xu
23 February 2023 → 21 September 2025
Rise and demise of a marine top predator: population dynamics and feeding ecology of the Sandwich Tern (Thalasseus sandvicensis)
Doctoral researcher: Wouter Courtens
30 September 2021 → 21 September 2025
Understanding individual variation in response inhibition in birds and its ecological consequences
Doctoral researcher: Wen Zhang
As
PhD Supervisor
02 December 2022 → 21 September 2025
Doctoral project Kathryn Willcox
Doctoral researcher: Kathryn Willcox
28 November 2012 → 20 February 2018
Doctoral project Lieze Rouffaer
Doctoral researcher: Lieze Rouffaer
09 September 2009 → 31 October 2014
Doctoral project Steven Van Belleghem
Doctoral researcher: Steven Van Belleghem
24 September 2021 → 21 September 2025
How do avian species inhibit actions in complex environments?
Doctoral researcher: Anneleen Dewulf
16 January 2023 → 22 September 2024
How does early life exposure to neurotoxins shape the development of response inhibition?
Doctoral researcher: Sophia Knoch
27 January 2023 → 21 September 2025
How do juvenile herring gulls stop and change behaviour in the wild: A novel eco-deco approach.
Doctoral researcher: Reinoud Allaert
As
Promotor
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Adaptive maternal investment in relation ot environmental variation in teh Great Tit (Parus major)
Fellow: Greet De Coster
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2019
”Born to ageing parents” - integrating pre- and postnatal parental effects
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2020
Can cooperative breeding buffer the impacts of habitat fragmentation?
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2019 → 31 December 2019
Can stochastic experiences, rather than inheritable traits, drive intraspecific niche variation in long-lived species?
Fellow: Jan Baert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2012
Causes and consequences of variation in queen number and polydomy in a highly polymorphic and isolated Formica rufa population
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2018
Decoding the ‘great speciator’ to unravel the role of introgressive hybridization in adaptation to environmental change
Fellow: Jan Oliver Engler
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2024 → 30 April 2025
Ecological and evolutionary drivers of foraging specialisation in lesser black-backed gulls – from causes to consequences
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2008
Ecological and genetic aspects of different dispersion and settlement strategies of a typical forest bird in a fragmented African tropical cloud forest
Fellow: Toon Spanhove
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2013 → 31 December 2018
Effects of Afrotropical rainforest fragmentation on life-history strategies in a cooperative breeding bird.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 December 2013 → 30 November 2017
Effects of parental resource acquisition and allocation strategies on offspring health in a migratory species: a field experiment.
Fellow: Cátia Sofia Andrade Dos Santos
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2012 → 30 September 2015
Effects of urbanization on gastrointestinal microbiota and host fitness in Passer domesticus.
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO), Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2012 → 31 October 2012
Effects of urbanization on gastrointestinal microbiota and host fitness in Passer domesticus
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
15 December 2016 → 15 September 2021
Follow-up of Invasive Alien Species: Valorising data to support policy and management
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 January 2020 → 31 October 2026
Forest biodiversity and multifunctionality drive chronic stress-mediated dynamics in pathogen reservoirs
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
From brain to habitat - ecological and cognitive dimensions of bird behaviour
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 December 2022 → 30 November 2026
From the cradle to the grave – the urban environment impinges on developmental programming and acts as selective agent
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2008 → 31 October 2011
FWO junior fish. Postdoc. Fellow Julien Pétillon
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2021
Individual niches across time and space: a 'niche' for niche plasticity?
Fellow: Jan Baert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2024 → 31 October 2027
Integrative study of infection dynamics in heterogenous urban landscapes: Feral pigeons and Chlamydophila psittaci as a model
Fellow: Bram Vanden Broecke
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2024 → 31 October 2024
Integrative study of infection dynamics in heterogenous urban landscapes: Feral pigeons and Chlamydophila psittaci as a model
Fellow: Bram Vanden Broecke
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2018 → 30 September 2022
Just the bear necessities: digestive flexibility of carnivores to anthropogenic habitat changes
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 March 2017 → 30 September 2019
Lesser Black-backed Gull Zeebrugge
Funding: Regional and community funding: various
01 October 2007 → 31 December 2008
Mechanistic studies of dispersal by arthropods, with particular attention to aeronautical dispersion at spinning.
Fellow: Dries Bonte
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2020 → 31 December 2022
Mechanistic underpinnings of bird distribution ranges: temperature tolerance and energetic constraints
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2008 → 31 October 2012
Mobility, inbreeding and fitness in spatially-structured populaties of warblers: an integrated study with genotypic and phenotypic markers
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2013
Natural variation in life-history traits and corresponding trade-offs between roof- and ground-nesting Herring gulls in colonies along the Flemish and Dutch (Zeeland) North Sea coast.
Fellow: Davy Bosman
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2018 → 01 April 2019
Optimal foraging strategy of central place foragers in a rapidly changing environment
Fellow: Brigitte Heylen
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2012 → 31 August 2014
Pathogen-driven variation in MHC-genes in natural populations under stress: house sparrows as a model
Fellow: Lies Ghysels
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Patterns of divergence in ecological relevant traits and their role in reproductive isolation in an adaptively radiated wolf spider genus from Galapagos
Fellow: Charlotte De Busschere
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2009 → 26 February 2015
PhD grant Berber de Jong
Fellow: Berber De Jong
Funding: Regional and community funding: IWT/VLAIO
01 January 2008 → 30 December 2013
Population viability in fragmented rainforest: integrating individual-based modeling with landscape dynamics and connectivity
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2009 → 01 October 2010
Research into the genetic and ecological mechanisms of symptrische divergence in the marsh-dwelling loopkver pogonus chalceus
Fellow: Steven Van Belleghem
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2021
Scaling up functional biodiversity research: from individuals to landscapes and back.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2014 → 31 December 2021
Scaling up functional biodiversity research: from individuals to landscapes and back.
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 October 2012 → 31 December 2017
SPatial and environmental determinants of Eco-Evolutionary DYnamics: anthropogenic environments as a model (SPEEDY)
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
Study of the role of selection history on the association between developmental instability and stress and fitness: habitat islands as model system
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2021 → 15 August 2022
The eco-evolutionary consequences of reward-based learning for behavioural variation.
Fellow: Jan Baert
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 December 2024 → 31 May 2025
The influence of forest structural complexity on avian condition and stress-mediated pathogen dynamics
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 January 2018 → 31 December 2021
Towards a ‘network of life’: the relative role of lateral events in highland-lowland speciation under past environmental perturbation
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 November 2024 → 30 April 2025
Understanding species’ invasions: a mechanistic view on the invasion success of the common waxbill, a prolific avian invader
Fellow: Marina Sentis Vila
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2020 → 31 October 2024
Understanding species’ invasions: a mechanistic view on the invasion success of the common waxbill, a prolific avian invader.
Fellow: Marina Sentis Vila
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2016 → 30 September 2019
Using East African Zosterops to understand speciation and eco-evolutionary dynamics in rapidly changing environments
Fellow: Jan Oliver Engler
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 December 2019 → 30 April 2020
Using Sentinel 2 data to depict insectivore bird diversity as an animal-related Essential Biodiversity Variable - REDSTARTlite
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2024
Year-round sociality under anthropogenic change in a cooperatively breeding bird
Fellow: Laurence Cousseau
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
As
Copromotor
01 February 2017 → 31 December 2019
BELAIR LITORA 2017 - Coordinates
Funding: Federal funding: various
01 November 2022 → 31 October 2026
Bird brains: How do they stop?
Fellow: Anneleen Dewulf
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 October 2021 → 30 September 2024
Effects of early-life environmental factors on response inhibition and impulsive aggression
Fellow: Alizée Vernouillet
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
01 November 2023 → 31 October 2027
Impulsive and persistent birds: How neurotoxins alter response inhibition and its behavioural consequences.
Fellow: Sophia Knoch
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
15 October 2009 → 14 October 2013
NO BUG - Novel Release System and Bio-Based Utilities for Insect Repellent Textiles and Garments
Funding: European funding: framework programme
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Research into the genetic and ecological mechanisms of sympatric divergence in the hoarse inhabit beetle Pogonus chalceus
Fellow: Steven Van Belleghem
Funding: Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
01 January 2009 → 31 December 2014
The influence of endosymbionts on the evolution of dispersal in arachnids
Funding: Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)