Finalised PhD Projects in 2016

Pankaj Sekhsaria (external PhD)
Supervisor: Prof. dr.ir. W.E. Bijker
Co-supervisors: Dr. A. Khandekar, Dr. R. Zeiss
Title: Enculturing Innovation; Indian engagements with nanotechnology
Successfully defended on Thursday 10 March 2016, at 12.00h.

 

Trust Saidi (external PhD)
Supervisor: Prof. dr.ir. W.E. Bijker
Co-supervisors: Dr. R. Zeiss
Title: Travelling Nanotechnologies
Successfully defended on Thursday 10 March 2016, at 14.00h.

 

Koen Beumer
Supervisor: Prof. dr.ir. W.E. Bijker
Co-supervisors: Dr. A. Khandekar
Title: Nanotechnology and development; Styles of governance in India, South Africa, and Kenya
Successfully defended on Thursday 10 March 2016, at 16.00h.

 

Annapurna Mamidipudi (external PhD)
Supervisor: Prof. dr.ir. W.E. Bijker
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. L. Delarive Box
Title: Towards a Theory of Innovation in Handloom Weaving in India
Successfully defended on Thursday 14 April 2016, at 12.00h.

 

Rafael Bienia
Supervisor: Prof. dr. S. Wyatt
Co-supervisors: Dr. K. Wenz
Title: Role playing Materials
Successfully defended on Thursday 28 April 2016, at 14.00h.

 

Rik Linssen
Supervisor: Prof. dr. J.J.G. Schmeets
Co-supervisors: Prof. dr. P.L.H. Scheepers (RUN), Dr. M. Te Grotenhuis
Title: Participation in context; contextual and individual determinants of political participation in Europe and the Netherlands
Successfully defended on Wednesday 15 June 2016, at 16.00h.

 

Maurice Heemels (external PhD)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. A. Knotter
Title: Op den akker des doods, waar allen gelijk worden… Begraafcultuur in Roermond, 1870-1940
Successfully defended on Friday 16 September 2016, at 14.00h.

 

Vlad Niculescu-Dinça (external PhD)
Supervisor: Prof. dr. T. Swierstra
Co-supervisor: Dr. I. van der Ploeg
Title: Policing Matter(s); Towards a sedimentology of suspicion in technologically mediated surveillance
Successfully defended on Wednesday 28 September 2016, at 14.00h.

 

Marije J. Hristova-Dijkstra
Supervisors: Prof. dr. G. Verbeeck and Prof. dr. K.K. Patel
Title: Reimagining Spain; Transnational Entanglements and remembrance of the Spanish Civil War since 1989
Succesfully defended (cum laude) on Thursday 20 October 2016, at 14.00h.

 

Bart van Oost
Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. W.E. Bijker and Dr. A. Hommels
Title: Our climate, our underground; understanding the slow implementation of carbon capture and storage
Successfully defended on 20 December 2016, at 16.00h.