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Ruben Schols

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Department: Biology

Division: Invertebrates

Job Title: Molecular biologist

Specialisms: invasieve soorten, zoönosen, One Health, freshwater snails, trematodes, microbiome

Email: ruben.schols@africamuseum.be

Phone: 32 2 769 5310

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Career

- 2020-current: PhD student on the MicroResist project at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren) and the KU Leuven (Kortrijk)

Awards

- VLIR-UOS travel grant (€1,000) (2018)
- BRAIN-BE 2.0 MicroResist PhD project (€319,940) (2020-2024)
- SBBOA travel grant (€2,500) (2021)

Dissertations

- M.Sc. Thesis (2019; KU Leuven): "Gastropod-borne trematode communities of man-made reservoirs in Zilmbabwe, with a special focus on Fasciola and Schistosoma helminth parasites" Promoter: Prof. Filip Volckaert, Supervisor: Dr. Tine Huyse.