PhD students

PhD students

  • Ralph Schielen
    Thesis: Nonlinear Stability Analysis and Pattern Formation in Morphological Models (1995)
    Promotor: Wiktor Eckhaus
  • Henk Schuttelaars
    Thesis: Evolution and Stability Analysis of Bottom Patterns in Tidal Embayements (1997)
    Co-adviser: Huib de Swart
    Promotors: Aart van Harten and Will de Ruijter
  • Vivi Rottschäfer
    Thesis: Co-dimension 2 Phenomena in Pattern Formation (1998)
    Second promotor: Wiktor Eckhaus
  • Geertje Hek
    Thesis: Bifurcations of Homoclinic Orbits in Singularly Perturbed Flows (2000)
    Second promotor: Odo Diekmann
  • Gert-Jan Pieters
    Thesis: Stability and Evolution of Gravity-Driven Flow in Porous Media (2004)
    Main adviser/first promotor: Hans van Duijn
  • Nguyen Huu Khanh
    Thesis: Heteroclinic Cycles in Thermal Convection Models (2005)
    Main adviser/co-promotor: Ale Jan Homburg
  • Harmen van der Ploeg
    Thesis: Singular Pulse Patterns in the Gierer-Meinhardt Equation (2005)
  • Guido Terra
    Thesis: Nonlinear Tidal Resonance (2005)
    Co-adviser: Leo Maas
  • Nienke Valkhoff
    Thesis: Stabilization by Competing Instability Mechanisms (2006)
    Co-adviser: Geertje Hek
  • Hicham Zmarrou
    Thesis: Bifurcation of Random Maps (2008)
    Main adviser/co-promotor: Ale Jan Homburg
  • Peter van Heijster
    Thesis: Front Interactions in a Three-Component System (2009)
  • Ramon Driesse
    Thesis: Bifurcations from Robust Homoclinic Cycles (2009)
    Main adviser/co-promotor: Ale Jan Homburg
  • Jeroen Hazewinkel
    Thesis: Attractors in Stratified Fluids (2010)
    Co-advisers/promotors: Leo Maas and Stuart Dalziel
  • Sjors van der Stelt
    Thesis: Rise and Fall of Periodic Patterns for a Generalized Klausmeier-Gray-Scott Model (2012)
    Co-advisers/co-promotors: Geertje Hek and Jens Rademacher
  • Frits Veerman
    Thesis: Pulses in Singularly Perturbed Reaction-Diffusion Systems (2013)
    Co-adviser/co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer
  • Martin van der Schans
    Thesis Blowup in the Complex Ginzburg-Landau Equation (2013)
    Co-adviser/co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer
  • Eric Siero
    Thesis: A recipe for desert. Analysis of an extended Klausmeier model (2016)
    Co-advisers/promotors: Jens Rademacher and Max Rietkerk
  • Lotte Sewalt
    Thesis: Patterns in Natural Systems (2016)
    Co-advisers/co-promotors: Peter van Heijster and Antonios Zagaris
  • Koen Siteur
    Thesis: Off the beaten track. How ecosystems fail to respond to environmental change (2016)
    Main advisers: Max Rietkerk (first promotor) and Maarten Eppinga (co-promotor)
  • Björn de Rijk
    Thesis: Periodic pulse solutions to slowly nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems (2016)
    Co-adviser: Jens Rademacher
  • Robbin Bastiaansen
    Thesis: Lines in the sand: behaviour of self-organised vegetation patterns in dryland ecosystems (2019)
    Co-advisers: Max Rietkerk and Martina Chirilus-Bruckner
  • Jasper Eikelboom
    Thesis: Sentinel animals: Enriching artificial intelligence with wildlife ecology to guard rhinos (2021)
    Main advisers: Henjo de Knegt, Frank van Langevelde and Herbert Prins
  • Olfa Jaïbi
    Thesis: Geometry of vegetation patterns: understanding patterns in dryland ecosystems and beyond (2021)
    Co-adviser: Martina Chirilus-Bruckner
  • Corine Meerman
    Thesis: Morphodynamic equilibria in tidal inlet systems: sensitivity to geometrical variations (2022)
    Main advisers: Henk Schuttelaars and Vivi Rottschäfer
  • David Kok
    Co-adviser: Frits Veerman
  • Lara van Vianen
    Main advisers: Martina Chirilus-Bruckner and Frits Veerman
  • Daphne Nesenberend
    Main and co-advisers: Frits Veerman and Roeland Merks
  • Jelle van der Voort
    Co-adviser Max Rietkerk
  • Dock Staal
    Co-adviser Max Rietkerk