PhD theses

Over the years many students have graduated from our division, writing wonderful PhD theses. Looking through the names of the graduates, familiar names pop up. Some have gone on to become professors, employees of the division or influential voices in the research community. Several of them will have gone on to supervise the theses of later students, including PhD students of other universities throughout the Netherlands.

To celebrate the work of these students over the years, an exhaustive overview of the published PhD theses can now more easily be read here on the website. In the Utrecht University Repository many of these PhD theses can be read in their entirety. 

An overview of these PhD theses is included down below, organized by year of graduation. 

A collage of the covers of 18 of the most visually intricate thesis covers, from the last two years. Some use flowers to highlight the natural roots of the medicine they discuss, others cartoon images of mice or people to represent who partook in a trial, and occasionally just a pretty swirl of colours to add something memorable to the cover. We have decided to highlight these designs, to show that the standard of having a plain white cover has been going out of favour in the past few years.