Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

+3211268329 Campus Diepenbeek
Gebouw D
Office D156

Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

Associate Professor

Faculty of Sciences
Capacity group Biology - Geology
Research group Zoology: Biodiversity and Toxicology
Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences

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

Understanding the role of public perception in conservation: The "World Animal Species Perception" project

Tuan Nguyen for the title Doctor of Business Economics (doctorate in progress)

Supervised as Copromotor

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

African catfishes and their monogenean gill parasites: barcoding, diversity and biogeography

Archimède Mushagalusa Mulega 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

View all 17 supervised PhD's of Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

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

Pathogenic landscape of mangrove ecosystems: implications of overfishing on disease vectors.

Lucas Van Passel 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

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

View all 17 supervised PhD's of Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

Publications

View all UHasselt publications by Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

Projects

30 research projects have been found

View all 30 UHasselt research projects of Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

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

"With a pinch of salt: habitat variability promoting plasticity and hampering diversification in a hostparasite system?" (Research)

01/10/2023 - 30/09/2027

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

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

World Archives of Species Perception (WASP) Project (Research)

01/11/2021 - 01/11/2025

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

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 - 30/09/2025

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 - 31/08/2025

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 - 30/06/2025

Siluriformes of the Albertian Rift and their monogeneans: systematics, phylogeny and biogeography. (Research)

01/11/2022 - 31/07/2024

Fish parasite diversity: the dying art of nematode systematics (Research)

14/05/2024 - 30/06/2024

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

BOF 2021 incentive funding ERC (Research)

01/05/2021 - 31/05/2023

biodiversity (Research)

01/01/2020 - 31/05/2023

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

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

Fish parasite diversity across spatial scales (Research)

01/03/2022 - 31/05/2022

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

Tracing parasite transfer between invasive Nile tilapia and native cichlids in Central Africa after anthropogenic introductions (Research)

01/09/2017 - 31/08/2018

View all 30 UHasselt research projects of Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

Education

Involved in the following courses

Academic year 2024 - 2025

3130

Biodiversity Exploration

Member of the teaching team

3458

Selected topics on nature conservation in developing countries

Coordinating lecturer

3122

Diversity of the vertebrate

Co-lecturer

3123

Ecology: organisms in their environment

Member of the teaching team

1634

Research Project

Coordinating lecturer

3961

Experimental Design in Environmental Health Sciences

Member of the teaching team

3354

Histology and Physiology of the Vertebrates

Coordinating lecturer

4921

Parasitology and One Health

Coordinating lecturer

Academic year 2023 - 2024

3130

Biodiversity Exploration

Member of the teaching team

3458

Selected topics on nature conservation in developing countries

Coordinating lecturer

3122

Diversity of the vertebrate

Co-lecturer

3123

Ecology: organisms in their environment

Member of the teaching team

1634

Research Project

Coordinating lecturer

3961

Experimental Design in Environmental Health Sciences

Member of the teaching team

3354

Histology and Physiology of the Vertebrates

Coordinating lecturer

4921

Parasitology and One Health

Coordinating lecturer

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Prof. dr. Maarten VANHOVE

Research

Supervised PhDs

Understanding the role of public perception in conservation: The "World Animal Species Perception" project

The more it changes, the more it stays the same: can phenotypic plasticity of the host counter parasite diversification?

Integrating fish parasite monitoring with stakeholder needs: towards a renewed health information system for sustainable aquaculture development in Africa

African catfishes and their monogenean gill parasites: barcoding, diversity and biogeography

With a pinch of salt: habitat variability promoting plasticity and hampering diversification in a hostparasite system?

Assessment of anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment and biodiversity in the Katangese Copperbelt Area: a community-based ichthyoparasitological approach (DR Congo)

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

Pathogenic landscape of mangrove ecosystems: implications of overfishing on disease vectors.

Food-borne detection of high risk consumption pathways of cholera outbreaks: present and future

Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites

Population genomics and phylogenomics of two African freshwater sardines in a fisheries context.

“Deep evolutionary relationships of Monogenea: a window on how parasitic flatworms colonized vertebrate hosts”

A flatworm’s choice: developing a model system to study the ecology and evolution of host preference using cichlid fishes and their monogenean parasites

Biocultural diversity of herpetofauna in South Africa: State and relevance as a science-based policy tool for conservation and social inclusion

Invasive Nile tilapia and their monogeneans in sub-Saharan Africa: reconstructing stocking using both host and parasite

Collection-based parasitology of invasive Nile tilapia and native cichlids in Central Africa to trace parasite co-introductions and transfer

Molecular evolution of rhabdocoel flatworms as a case study on the acquisition of endosymbiosis

Publications

Projects

Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites (Research)

Anthropogenic disturbance, biodiversity loss and the dynamics of snail-borne parasites (Research)

"With a pinch of salt: habitat variability promoting plasticity and hampering diversification in a hostparasite system?" (Research)

IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Parasite Specialist Group (IUCN SSC PSG) (Research)

A network of change: predation on human disease vectors by mangrove fishes and the role of fisheries and parasitic infections (Research)

Integrating fish parasite monitoring with stakeholder needs: towards a renewed health information system for sustainable aquaculture development in Africa (Research)

Monitoring the status of African wetlands using macroinvertebrates and parasites with traditional andmodern tools: balancing ecosystem and societal needs. (Research)

World Archives of Species Perception (WASP) Project (Research)

Pathogenic landscape of mangrove ecosystems: implications of overfishing on disease vectors (Research)

The more it changes, the more it stays the same: can phenotypic plasticity of the host counter parasite diversification? (Research)

Blended education with collections from life and environmental sciences: a case study for the development of virtually supported collection-based didactics (Education)

Internal and external capacity building for international biodiversity conservation: a headstart for activities in Red Listing and the IUCN Parasite Specialist Group (Education)

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)

Siluriformes of the Albertian Rift and their monogeneans: systematics, phylogeny and biogeography. (Research)

Fish parasite diversity: the dying art of nematode systematics (Research)

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)

BOF 2021 incentive funding ERC (Research)

biodiversity (Research)

The evolution of host-parasite interactions of parasitic flatworms (Research)

The few or the many: Evolution, predictors, and drivers of host specificity in African parasitic flatworms belonging to Cichlidogyrus (Monogenea, Dactylogyridae) (Research)

Multilevel differentiation and evolution of parasite populations in space and time (Research)

Biocultural diversity of herpetofauna in South Africa: State and relevance as a science-based policy tool for conservation and social inclusion (Research)

A genomic approach to study parasites from invasive Nile tilapia in Africa (Research)

Fish parasite diversity across spatial scales (Research)

Population genomics of freshwater sardines in Central African lakes, and its translation into fisheries policy (Research)

Reconstructing Nile tilapia stocking in Africa: parasites, nextgeneration-sequencing and museum collections (Research)

Novel insights in trematode taxonomy: larval diversity and life-cycle strategies in snail hosts from Lake Tanganyika (Research)

Molecular evolution and cophylogeny of rhabdocoel flatworms as a case study on the acquisition of endosymbiosis (Research)

Small worms and their problematic mitochondrial genomes: a long-range PCR approach. (Research)

Tracing parasite transfer between invasive Nile tilapia and native cichlids in Central Africa after anthropogenic introductions (Research)

Education

Involved in the following courses

Academic year 2024 - 2025

Biodiversity Exploration

Selected topics on nature conservation in developing countries

Diversity of the vertebrate

Ecology: organisms in their environment

Research Project

Experimental Design in Environmental Health Sciences

Histology and Physiology of the Vertebrates

Parasitology and One Health

Academic year 2023 - 2024

Biodiversity Exploration

Selected topics on nature conservation in developing countries

Diversity of the vertebrate

Ecology: organisms in their environment

Research Project

Experimental Design in Environmental Health Sciences

Histology and Physiology of the Vertebrates

Parasitology and One Health

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