I supervise or co-supervise several PhD students
Ongoing
Joseph Bahati Mukulu, PhD student in the VLIR TEAM project From handmade gravel to handmade urbanism
Divin-Luc Bikubanya, assistant at IOB
Hadassah Arian, PhD student in the DOCPRO project Questioning legitimacy in the ‘responsible cobalt assemblage’
Maria Eugenia Robles Mengoa, PhD student in the FWO InForMining project
Mollie Gleiberman, Capturing the benefits of private sector investment in natural resource extraction for national development. A case study of labor and the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique
Defended
In 2021
Bossissi Nkuba, Mercury pollution, intoxication and remediation in the Kamituga gold mining area. PhD in Biology, co-supervised with Lieven Bervoets, in the framework of the CEGEMI project
In 2022
Francine Iragi, The hammer and/or the hoe? Analyzing the linkages between artisanal mining and agriculture. PhD in Development Studies, co-supervised with Marijke Verpoorten, in the framework of the CEGEMI project
Fergus Simpson, The political ecology of conservation at a violent frontier in South Kivu, Eastern DRC, FWO fellow, joint PhD University of Antwerp and Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
In 2023
Simon Marijsse, Ambient technologies: an ethnography of extractive pathways in Eastern DR Congo. PhD in Development Studies and PhD in Antrhopology (KULeuven), co-supervised with Filip De Boeck and Boris Verbrugge, in the framework of the FWO-EOS project Winners and Losers from Globalization and Market Integration.