Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE
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Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE
Associate Professor
Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE
Research
Discipline codes: Animal systematics and taxonomy (01060109), Invertebrate biology (01060111), Animal morphology, anatomy and physiology (01060107), Invasion biology (01060408), Biogeography and phylogeography (01060501), Molecular evolution (01060505), Phylogeny and comparative analysis (01060507), Speciation (01060508), Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics (01060706), Parasitology (01060806), Aquatic biology (01070101), Conservation and biodiversity (01070301), Ecosystem services (01070302), Sustainable fishery management (04010503), Environment policy (05090306), Research, science and technology policy (05090310)
Supervised PhDs
The more it changes, the more it stays the same: can phenotypic plasticity of the host counter parasite diversification?
Kelly Thys for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Integrating fish parasite monitoring with stakeholder needs: towards a renewed health information system for sustainable aquaculture development in Africa
Miriam Shigoley for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
With a pinch of salt: habitat variability promoting plasticity and hampering diversification in a hostparasite system?
Martina Topic for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Assessment of anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment and biodiversity in the Katangese Copperbelt Area: a community-based ichthyoparasitological approach (DR Congo)
Kapepula Kasembele for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Biological invasion of the non-indigenous blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 and its symbionts in a « One Health » context in Moroccan coastal environments: effects on native biodiversity, associated marine diseases, and risks for human health
Amal Lamkhalkhal for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Food-borne detection of high risk consumption pathways of cholera outbreaks: present and future
Sofie Leen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites
Emilie Goossens for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology (doctorate in progress)
Supervised as Promotor
Understanding public perception in biodiversity conservation: The "World Archives of Species Perception" project
Tuan Nguyen for the title Doctor of Business Economics in 2025
Supervised as Copromotor
African catfishes and their monogenean gill parasites: barcoding, diversity and biogeography
Archimède Mushagalusa Mulega for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2025
Supervised as Promotor
Population genomics and phylogenomics of two African freshwater sardines in a fisheries context.
Leona Milec for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
“Deep evolutionary relationships of Monogenea: a window on how parasitic flatworms colonized vertebrate hosts”
Samuel Leeming for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2024
Supervised as Promotor
A flatworm’s choice: developing a model system to study the ecology and evolution of host preference using cichlid fishes and their monogenean parasites
Armando Cruz Laufer for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2023
Supervised as Promotor
Biocultural diversity of herpetofauna in South Africa: State and relevance as a science-based policy tool for conservation and social inclusion
Fortunate Phaka for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2022
Supervised as Promotor
Invasive Nile tilapia and their monogeneans in sub-Saharan Africa: reconstructing stocking using both host and parasite
Mare Geraerts for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2022
Supervised as Copromotor
Collection-based parasitology of invasive Nile tilapia and native cichlids in Central Africa to trace parasite co-introductions and transfer
Michiel Jorissen for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2021
Supervised as Copromotor
Molecular evolution of rhabdocoel flatworms as a case study on the acquisition of endosymbiosis
Marlies Monnens for the title Doctor of Sciences: Biology in 2021
Supervised as Copromotor
Projects
37 research projects have been found
DiSSCo Flanders 2.0: Enhancing access to Flemish collections through integration with DiSSCo (Research)
01/01/2025 - 31/12/2028
PERCH: Public Engagement and Research on Charisma and Human Values – Advancing Biodiversity Conservation by Linking Perception of Plants to Conservation, Developing Global Metrics for Charisma, and Mitigating Taxonomic Bias (Research)
01/11/2025 - 31/10/2028
Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites (Research)
01/11/2024 - 31/10/2028
Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites (Research)
01/11/2024 - 31/10/2028
Host–parasite and microbiome perspectives on blue crab invasions: space for time approach (Research)
13/11/2025 - 30/04/2028
One Health monitoring meets the science-policy interface in tropical freshwater wetlands (Education)
01/11/2025 - 01/11/2027
"With a pinch of salt: habitat variability promoting plasticity and hampering diversification in a hostparasite system?" (Research)
01/10/2023 - 30/09/2027
Filling in the gaps: examining (parasite) biodiversity of African wetland macroinvertebrates in context of One Health and conservation policy (Research)
16/06/2025 - 15/06/2027
IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Parasite Specialist Group (IUCN SSC PSG) (Research)
01/01/2024 - 31/12/2026
A network of change: predation on human disease vectors by mangrove fishes and the role of fisheries and parasitic infections (Research)
01/10/2023 - 30/09/2026
Integrating fish parasite monitoring with stakeholder needs: towards a renewed health information system for sustainable aquaculture development in Africa (Research)
01/10/2022 - 30/09/2026
Internal and external capacity building for international biodiversity conservation: a headstart for activities in Red Listing and the IUCN Parasite Specialist Group (Education)
01/09/2023 - 30/06/2026
Biological invasion of the non-indigenous blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 and its symbionts in a « One Health » context in Moroccan coastal environments: effects on native biodiversity, associated marine diseases, and risks for human health (Research)
01/01/2023 - 30/06/2026
Monitoring the status of African wetlands using macroinvertebrates and parasites with traditional andmodern tools: balancing ecosystem and societal needs. (Research)
01/03/2024 - 28/02/2026
Blended education with collections from life and environmental sciences: a case study for the development of virtually supported collection-based didactics (Education)
01/10/2023 - 31/12/2025
Pathogenic landscape of mangrove ecosystems: implications of overfishing on disease vectors (Research)
01/11/2024 - 31/10/2025
The more it changes, the more it stays the same: can phenotypic plasticity of the host counter parasite diversification? (Research)
01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025
Siluriformes of the Albertian Rift and their monogeneans: systematics, phylogeny and biogeography. (Research)
01/11/2022 - 31/07/2024
Unraveling the molecular mechanisms of diversification: Comparative genomics of the monogeneans infecting the gills of the marine barramundi (Lates calcarifer), at both micro and macro evolutionary levels. (Research)
01/03/2023 - 28/02/2024
The evolution of host-parasite interactions of parasitic flatworms (Research)
01/03/2023 - 31/03/2023
The few or the many: Evolution, predictors, and drivers of host specificity in African parasitic flatworms belonging to Cichlidogyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) (Research)
16/01/2019 - 15/01/2023
Multilevel differentiation and evolution of parasite populations in space and time (Research)
01/10/2021 - 30/09/2022
Biocultural diversity of herpetofauna in South Africa: State and relevance as a science-based policy tool for conservation and social inclusion (Research)
01/01/2019 - 31/08/2022
A genomic approach to study parasites from invasive Nile tilapia in Africa (Research)
01/01/2019 - 30/06/2022
Population genomics of freshwater sardines in Central African lakes, and its translation into fisheries policy (Research)
01/06/2021 - 31/05/2022
Reconstructing Nile tilapia stocking in Africa: parasites, nextgeneration-sequencing and museum collections (Research)
01/10/2017 - 30/09/2021
Novel insights in trematode taxonomy: larval diversity and life-cycle strategies in snail hosts from Lake Tanganyika (Research)
18/01/2021 - 28/02/2021
Molecular evolution and cophylogeny of rhabdocoel flatworms as a case study on the acquisition of endosymbiosis (Research)
01/10/2018 - 31/12/2020
Small worms and their problematic mitochondrial genomes: a long-range PCR approach. (Research)
01/03/2019 - 29/02/2020
Education
Involved in the following courses
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2025 - 2026
Academic year 2024 - 2025
Academic year 2024 - 2025
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