ZEF BIGS-DR Students

Around 500 students from more than 100 countries have participated in the BIGS-DR program at ZEF since its inception in 1999. Each annual batch has around 20-30 students from different academic and disciplinary backgrounds. Our students complete their doctoral studies in about 3-4 years.

Where do BIGS-DR students come from?

BIGS-DR Students' News

December 04, 2023.

Congratulations to Ahmed Abdalla who successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Transitions towards sustainable agriculture: The case of wheat-based production systems in Egypt" on December 04, 2023 at ZEF!

Ahmed was a doctoral researcher at ZEF and the Right Livelihood Campus Bonn and received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Agriculture of Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.

His first supervisor was Prof. Dr. Mathias Becker (Professor of Plant Nutrition in the Tropics and Subtropics at the University of Bonn) and his second supervisor was Prof. Dr. Christian Borgemeister.

Ahmed's research was funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) via the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and by the Dr. Hermann Eiselen Doctoral Programm of the Foundation fiat panis.

Ahmed also made a post for the ZEF Researcher's blog on "Could the Ukrainian war spark another revolution in Egypt?", which you can read here and an article in the ZEF news no. 43.

Two new successful ZEF doctoral graduates: André Bueno Rezende de Castro and Yauheniya Shershunovich
October 24, 2023.

André Bueno Rezende de Castro and Yauheniya Shershunovich successfully defended their theses at ZEF

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Abby Daniela Ortega Sandoval successfully defended her doctoral thesis!
August 28, 2023.

Abby Daniela Ortega Sandoval successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Qualitative and quantitative assessment of sustainable urban stormwater management in Bogotá, Colombia".

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A new successful ZEF doctoral graduate: Dipesh Chapagain
August 08, 2023.

Dipesh Chapagain successfully defended his doctoral thesis on "Detection and attribution of spatiotemporal trends of climatic disaster mortality in Nepal".

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