ABOUT E-MAIL [email protected]. Professor physical geography; specialist in soil erosion, hillslope hydrology, desertification, soil erosion control as well as soil and water conservation practices. PROF JEAN POESEN Professor of social and economic geography. Research topics: • West-European cities & Brussels • Chinese cities • Socio-spatial structures • Housing • Poverty • Ethnic minorities • Land reforms PROF CHRIS KESTELOOT [email protected].
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[email protected] physical geography; specialist in soil erosion, hillslope hydrology, desertification, soil erosion control as well as soil and water conservation practices.
prof jean poesen
Professor of social and economic geography. Research topics: • West-European cities & Brussels• Chinese cities• Socio-spatial structures• Housing• Poverty• Ethnic minorities• Land reforms
prof chris kesteloot
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[email protected] researcher in social geography at KULeuven. My research is on creative participation in urban planning and design. Architect/urbanist by education.
tim devos
Doctoral Researcher. Research Associate of CIMMYT, Int (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) and K.U.Leuven. My research is based on sustainable and resilient cropping systems.
ricardo romero pereZGrovas
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[email protected] in Bio-science engineering and anthropology. Currently working as a PhD student on resilience strategies for landslides in the Central African region.
jan maes
I am Sajjad Saeed. I completed my PhD from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Hamburg, Germany in November 2011 and joined KU Leuven in January 2012. I am a climate scientist working on MACCBET project. The aim of the MACCBET project is to establish projections of future climate and air quality for Belgium, at an unprecedented spatial resolution, and using the latest insights and parameterizations of processes affecting regional climate and atmospheric composition. A detail description of MACCBET project is available at http://ees.kuleuven.be/maccbet/index.html
dr. sajjad saeed
My name is Tomas Ambra and I come from Slovakia. After participating in a course at Utrecht University which was based on innovations for a sustainable future, I decided to pursue my career in sustainable logistics. Main focus of my thesis would be on a correlation between environment and logistics where innovations and recommendations would be proposed in order to mitigate negative impact of NOx and SOx gasses in the atmosphere. Therefore I have chosen to proceed my studies in Belgium since it has a complex interconnected logistic network where the gas concentration rates are rather high. Besides these negative factors, Belgium is a lovely country and I enjoy living here.
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My name is Marta Avesani , I am 23 years old and I come from Italy. I graduated in Development Cooperation at Università degli Studi di Padova (Padua, Italy) with a thesis on the use of Peruvian Migrants’ remittances. I did my internship for the Italian NGO “Fratelli dell’Uomo” (part of the European Group “Frères des Hommes”) and I spent 6 weeks in Peru for studying one of its projects concerning migration and development. During my Italian part of the internship I also became deeply interested in enterprise sustainability and ethics and I really would like to have further experiences as well as finding my future job in this field.After my bachelor I therefore decided to focus on sustainability issues applying to the Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Sustainable Territorial Development (EM STeDe). The Master is giving me the opportunity to study in a stimulating international and intercultural environment. So, after my first semester in Padua again, here I am for my second semester at KULeuven (Belgium).
tomas ambra
marta avesani
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Hello my name is Emmanuelle Genest, I’m 21 years old and I’m French. I graduated last year in economics from Paris 1 - La Sorbonne. I spent one year in Poland during my bachelor degree, in Krakow, where I also studied economics. I discovered there the benefits of studying in another country with people from all around the world. As I wanted to continue this experience I applied for the Erasmus Mundus master, SteDe. I got accepted and I started to study this year sustainable territorial development. I really enjoy being in a multicultural environment and learn from each other experiences. I’m really much interested in topics related to rural development and agriculture. I’m planning to do my internship next year in this field.
emmanuelle Genest
bert stevens
[email protected], my name is Bert Stevens, 21 years old and born and raised in Belgium. I’m currently in my first masteryear of the programme “Tropical Natural Ressources management” at the university of KULeuven, a division of the Bioscience engineering programme. My major focusses on tropical soils and how to correctly manage and conserve them. I already conducted some fieldwork in Africa (Kenia) as part of my study programme. Helping developing countries find new methods to boost soil fertility and plant production is what I want to do in life. Please contact me if you have questions or study related opportunities! Greetings, Bert
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Karina Azar. I was born in Colombia and like every citizen of my country, I am a huge passionate about anything and everything Colombian. I graduated from International Relations and started working for diplomat bodies such as the French Embassy in Colombia, and in my city’s economic development agency, ProBarranquilla, for over 4 years doing consultant related activities. I am interested on any topics on the field of Foreign Direct Investment and Exports Promotion. However, since my work experience has been focused mainly on the economic sphere of Sustainable Development -SD, I started exploring more about the social and environmental parts of SD. Because of this, I decided to leave my beautiful country for 2 years to study the Erasmus Mundus Masters on Sustainable Territorial Development, STeDe.
karina aZar
[email protected], my name is Lucie Cizkova and I come from central Europe –Czech Republic. I study Geography and regional development at University of Ostrava. I´m focusing mainly on regional problems of small regions of Czech Republic and specially on my region of Moravian and Silesian. I came here to Belgium for one year study Erasmus program. I would like to gain more knowledge about other perspectives of geography and subsequently use this new knowledges to improve my master thesis.
lucie ciZkova
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I’m Tomasz from Poland. I did bachelor in Geodesy and Cartography in Kraków. I spent one semester on erasmus exchange in Finland. Here in Belgium I’m doing my master in Geography (specialisation GIS and Spatial Modelling). I love Leuven and students here :) Hobbies: travelling, languages, photography, sport.
tomasZ nowacki
trui van ackere
Hello, I am Trui Van Ackere, a student from Belgium. Last year I graduated in International Politics at the University of Ghent. For my thesis, I worked on financial mechanisms for humanitarian aid. Especially the costs and benefits of pooled funding for NGOs was my primary focus. During my last year in Ghent, I understood that I lacked international experience. Also I wanted to look at developing countries from a more constructive point of view. That’s why I enrolled in an Erasmus Mundus in Sustainable Territorial Development, which I am truly enjoying. For my thesis and internship in the year to come, there are still a lot of ideas floating in my head, but a big chance that it will be dealing with the sustainability of our economical (aid) system and the consequences for the developing world.
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Hi I’m Charlie Flasse, and I’m British! I did a bachelors in Environmental Science at the University of Southampton, and since then I have moved to Belgium and have had some work experience in mapping land cover from satellite images and have taken an introductory course in international development. Now I’m on the master in Geography program in Leuven. I like to learn about the world both socially and environmentally, and I would like to combine these with working with developing countries, GIS and satellite image analysis. My Masters thesis will look at land cover changes of a forest in Ethiopia in the past decades and the social factors behind these changes.
charlie flasse
My name is Ida Carlsson and I come from Göteborg, Sweden. I have a bachelor’s degree in Rural Development from SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) with a special focus on gender and sustainability issues. I wrote my bachelor thesis about migration patterns of men and women in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, especially focusing on identity formation in relation to the local village and its history. I have a strong interest in politics and feminist theory, which I stubbornly try to combine with my current master studies in Geography at KU Leuven and VUB (Brussels). I am in my second semester of the program and will hopefully carry out the research for my master’s thesis about feminist immigrant (Moroccan) movements in Belgium and Sweden.
ida carlsson
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ksenia koZhemyakina
My name is Ksenia Kozhemyakina and I’m from Russia. I have a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from PFUR (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia). At the same time I learnt Arabic language and spent some time in Syria and Jordan. But after that I worked for the Moscow Government in the agency related to the youth policy. During this experience I became interested in the issues connected with sustainable development of the city and that’s why I applied for Erasmus Mundus - STeDe. Now I’m interested in the sustainable tourism and I think that my future thesis will be dealing with this topic.
My name is Gert De Schutter. My home country is Belgium. I am in the first year of the master program Geography, specialisation Space and Society at KU Leuven and VUB. I am interested in many themes related to global power relations, development and inequality, but my thesis will be related to the political geography of Belgium.
Gert de schutter
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Hello, my name is Mats Mees. I’m 21 years old and born in Antwerp, Belgium. I live in Belgium and although I don’t study abroad like most of the other authors above, I love to travel and explore other countries, cultures and nature reserves . I’m currently in my first year of the master crop production at the Bio-engineering faculty of the University of Leuven. I’m interested in living organisms, especially plants: how they function, develop, adapt, and cope with different stresses... Plants related to social issues, climate change and others issues is a field I start to explore. Feeding the world in a more sustainable, healthy and honest way is a serious task to be fulfilled and I hope to contribute to achieving that goal.
mats mees
ana maria rivero
My name is Ana Maria Rivero, I’m from Colombia, and I have a Bachelor Degree in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I have work experience in the public sector as I worked for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Colombia in Diplomacy. I quitted the Ministry and I decided to work in solidarity economy sector, designing and carrying out Urban Agriculture programs, to ensure food security in marginal areas of my city, Bogota. As I wanted to learn more about international cooperation for sustainable agriculture projects I decided to apply to STeDe Erasmus Master Course. My interest topics are rural development, international cooperation and solidarity economy.
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Hi, my name is PHAM Huu Hieu, i’m come from Hanoi, Vietnam. I’m assitant research on Faculty of Geography, Hanoi University of Science, VNU. My background on BSc is Cartography, Remote Sensing and GIS. I has work on some projects in my country about the impact of environmental change on human life and the impact of sea level rise on the coastal zone. Now, with matter thesis, i’d like to do with the change in the vegetation cover on the higher region on the North of Vietnam. I like sport and travelling .
pham huu hieu
svonGwa nemadire
My name is Svongwa Nemadire. I am Zimbabwean. I have a BSc in Environmental Science from the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) in Zimbabwe and an MSc in Environmental Policy from Wageningen University. At KU Leuven, I am developing a research proposal focusing on conflicts between wildlife conservation and natives who live near parks in Zimbabwe.
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Hello, my name is Marek Putala. I come from Czech Republic. I´m on Erasmus exchange programme here in Belgium at KU Leuven for one year. My home university is University of Ostrava, where I study Geography and regional development. I focus mainly on city development and regional policy of EU. I´m writing my master thesis about international comparison of old industrial regions, it was also one of the reasons why I chose Erasmus in Belgium.
marek putala
Hello, My name is Diana Martinez. I come from Quito, Ecuador. I obtained my B.A in International Relations and Latin American Studies from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana . Additionally, I have an M.A. in Development Studies with a specialization in Conflict, Reconstruction and Human Security from Erasmus University of Rotterdam’s International Institute of Social Studies. I am now in the Sustainable Territorial Development M.A. program.
diana martineZ