PhD Projects supervised by Prof. Huib Ernste
| Name (date of PhD graduation) | Daily Supervisor | (Working) Title |
| Anke Strüver (2004) | Huib Ernste | Stories of the ‘Boring Border’: The Dutch-German Borderscape in people’s minds. |
| Enza Lissandrello (2005) | Olivier Kramsch | The Utopia of Cross-Border Regions. Territorial transformation and cross-border governance. On Espace Mont-Blanc |
| Nicole Ehlers (2007) | Henk v. Houtum & Martin van der Velde |
The binational city Eurode: The social legitimacy of a border-crossing town. |
| Pieter de Bruijn (2010) | Arnoud Lagendijk | The Spatial Industrial Organization of Innovation |
| Wijanto Hadipuro (2012) | Ton van Naerssen | Water Supply and Urban Livelihoods. A case study in Semarang-Indonesia (together with Prof. Yohanes Budi Widianarko) |
| Marlies Meijer (2018) | Stefan Dormans | Planning Practices, Informality and Depopulation (together with Prof. Erwin van der Krabben) |
| Emiel Maliepaard (2018) | Roos Pijpers | Geographies of Bisexuality |
| Federico Alagna (2020) | Martin van der Velde & Joris Schapendonk |
Differently Integrated: European and national policies to fight the smuggling of migrants |
| Kolar Aparna (2020) | Joris Schapendonk | Enacting Asylum University. Politics of research encounters and (re)producing borders in asylum relations |
| Benny Setianto (2021) | Ton van Naerssen | Civil Society Governance: The role of civil society in shaping environmental governance in Semarang (together with Prof. Bas Arts) |
| Lydia Sitohang (2021) | Lothar Smith & Martin van der Velde | Cross-border Interaction in the Context of Development in the Indonesian-Malaysian Border Region: Garuda is in my chest Malaysia ringgit is in my stomach |
| Freek de Haan (2022, Cum Laude) | Rianne van Melik | Counter-actualizing Gentrification: A study of problems and practices of displacement in Arnhem, Vienna and Istanbul (together with Prof. Arnoud Lagendijk) |
| Vanessa Jansen-Meinen (2022) | Huib Ernste | Steering Sustainable Events Performance: Towards a more balanced assessment of sustainable association events |
| Hanna Carlsson (2022, Cum Laude) | Rianne van Melik & Roos Pijpers |
Caring for Older Migrants in Dutch Cities. A study of responsiveness to diversity in aged care practices in times of post-multiculturalism and localism |
| Henk Willems (2023) | Olivier Kramsch | Why did the Mondragon co-ops degenerate (or not)? Theorizing the Mondragon cooperative experience beyond the ‘degeneration thesis’ |
| Oely Sidabalok (2023) | Martin van der Velde & Ton van Naerssen | Residential Solid Waste Management in Semarang: The Question of Geographical Environmental Justice |
| Mohamed Munas (2023) | Lothar Smith | “Reconnections”: Complexities of diaspora engagement in post-war Sri Lanka |
| Emil van Eck ( 2024, Cum Laude) | Rianne van Melik & Joris Schapendonk | Public Space in Endless Motion. The politics of markets in the Netherlands |
| Iris Poelen (expected 2025) | Lothar Smith & Jana Výrašteková | Home in displacement Syrian and Eritrean women’s negotiations of home in the Dutch nation-space |
| Joren Jacobs (expected 2025) | Henk v. Houtum & Martin van der Velde |
Reconfiguring the Border in Cross-Border Spatial Planning Practice (on the brink of finishing) |
| José Muller (2024) | Pascal Beckers | Unlocking the Potential of Refugees: An intervention to foster the mental health, economic participation and social networks of Syrian refugees in the Netherlands |
| Lica Putranti | Lothar Smith | New Indonesian Frontiers (working title) |
| Piet Severijnen | Huib Ernste | How can the interaction between performing musicians and their social and material environment contribute to placemaking? |
| Mirjam Wajsberg (expected 2025) | Joris Schapendonk | Moving Edges Migrant Infrastructuring Practices in Urban Spaces across Europe |
| Veronica Pastorino (expected 2025) | Huib Ernste | New Generations Doing Space: When local practices challenge national identities. A new conception of spatial citizenship (together with dr Alice Mattoni) |
| Dawit Tesfay Haile | Joris Schapendonk | Investigating the genealogy of contrasting construction of the ‘good migrant’ (together with Prof. Toon van Meijl) |