Gabriel Teteka Mutondo
Gabriel Teteka Mutondo, born in Lubumbashi, February 6, 1985, Assistant at the University of Lubumbashi, Graduate of Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Geography and Environmental Sciences in 2022, obtained his State diploma in 2003 at the Kigoma Institute, his graduate diploma in geographical sciences in 2007 and his postgraduate’s degree in Physical geography in 2009.
Research area : Hydroclimatology, Climate Change and GIS
Author of 3 scientific articles and co-author of several other articles
PhD topic: The role of water availability for the recovery of miombo woodlands, in the context of global change (posterpresenatation).
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Djibu Jean-pierre
Promotor Ghent University: Prof. Marijn Bauters
Kisimba Ngobola Trésor
Kisimba Ngobola Tresor was born on 9 May 1989 in Kalemie (DR Congo). He has a degree in chemical sciences and a master's degree in management of physical earth resources (soil sciences). At present, he works as a senior analyst at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, in the Soil Science Laboratory. He has been enrolled in a doctoral thesis at the University of Lubumbashi and Ghent since 2024.
His PhD, which he started recently, focuses on " Entrepreneurial support and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Katanga Copperbelt in the DRC: an ecosystemic approach." Despite his research, he also practice knowledge dissemination by participating in conferences at both the local and international levels.
PhD topic: The land-use change response of community composition and functioning of termites, as ecosystem engineers in miombo woodlands
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Dr. Ir. Mujinya Bazirake Basile
Promotor UGhent: Prof .Dr. Dries Bonte
Gabriel Ndibazokize
PhD topic: Exploring the Potentials of Multi-Agent Systems to Support the Participatory Management of Village Spatial Transformations Around Mining Sites: Application to Villages Around Mining Sites in Haut-Katanga in DR Congo (posterpresenation).
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Bonaventure BANZA WA BANZA
Promotor Hasselt University: Prof. Oswald DEVICH
Gyrhaiss Kasembele
Gyrhaiss is a Congolese parasitologist and aquatic biodiversity researcher from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a PhD candidate at Hasselt University (Belgium) and a lecturer at the University of Lubumbashi, where his research focuses on fish parasites, aquatic biodiversity, and the impacts of mining pollution on freshwater ecosystems in the Katangese Copperbelt. His work combines parasitology, ecology, and molecular techniques to assess environmental health and promote the conservation and sustainable management of aquatic resources. He has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed scientific publications on fish parasites and biodiversity in Central Africa.
PhD topic: Assessment of anthropogenic impacts on the aquatic environment and biodiversity in the Katangese Copperbelt Area: an ichthyoparasitological approach (DR Congo)
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Dr Ir Emmanuel Abwe
Promotor Hasselt University: Prof. Dr Maarten Vanhove
Trésor Sumbu Nzuki
Trésor is a pharmacist researcher from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is a PhD candidate at University of Lubumbashi and University of Mons where he is completing a joint PhD program and his research focuses on evaluation of the anticancer property of natural plant-based substances from the Katanga copper arc (ACK). This study aims to objectify traditional knowledge with the intent to possibly contribute to the search for new cancer treatments using medicinal plants.
PhD topic: Assessment of the anticancer activity of natural plant-based substances from the Katanga copper arc (ACK).
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Kahumba Byanga
PromotorUniversity of Mons: Prof. Fabrice Journé
Patient Umba Kyangwe
Patient UMBA KYANGWE has been a teaching assistant at the School of Criminology at the University of Lubumbashi since 2018. He is passionate about empirical research and am interested in security dynamics in urban areas of Africa, particularly in Greater Katanga.
PhD topic: Urban insecurity in the Katanga copper belt: a comparative study of the cities of Lubumbashi and Kolwezi
Promotor UNILU: Honoré NGOIE MWENZE
Promotor Ghent University: Prof. Dr. Antoinette VERHAGE
Trésor Mupeta Mutwila
Trésor is a doctoral student in a joint program between the University of Lubumbashi (UNILU) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Originally from Lubumbashi, he holds a bachelor's degree in financial management, followed by a master's degree in human resources management, during which he published 5 articles on the topic of entrepreneurship focused on gender issues, which made him discover his passion for this field of research.
His PhD, which he started recently, focuses on " Entrepreneurial support and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Katanga Copperbelt in the DRC: an ecosystemic approach." Despite his research, he also practice knowledge dissemination by participating in conferences at both the local and international levels.
PhD topic: Entrepreneurial support and growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Katanga Copperbelt in the DRC: an ecosystemic approach
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Pascal Sem Mbimbi
Promotor VUB: Prof. Nikolay Dentchev
Victoire Muheme
PhD topic: Female entrepreneurship as a lever for social transformation in ACK.
Promotor UNILU: Prof. M’BAYO MUSEWA
Promotor VUB: Prof. Nikolay Dentchev
Pacifique Bilolwa
2014: Diploma in Agronomic Engineering from the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, Department of Zootechnics, University of Lubumbashi
2015: Appointed Assistant in charge of teaching and research at the University of Lubumbashi
2019 : Promoted to Works Supervisor Ministerial Decree No 272/MINESUCABMINEEM/2019 of 31/12/2019 appointing and promoting academic and scientific staff of the Universities of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
2020: Awarded a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Animal Production at the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Lubumbashi.
2023: Appointed secretary in charge of teaching in the Production Animal Department of the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences/UNILU.
Author of several publications in the animal production, animal nutrition research area.
2023 to present: Doctoral student in the VLIR - UOS programme at the University of Lubumbashi and the University of Ghent in Belgium.
PhD topic: Effects and mitigation of dietary heavy metal contamination in rabbits in the Katangese Copper Belt (posterpresentation).
Promotor UNILU: prof Florence Mujinga Kampemba
Promotor Ghent University: Prof. Stefaan De Smet
Judith Muzulukwau Mavungu
PhD topic: Mycorrhizae, an essential factor for sustainable agricultural production in the Lubumbashi region of DRCongo; Synergy between the biostimulant effect and the biocontrol effect
Promotor UNILU: Prof. Dr. Ir. Mukobo Mundende Robert-Prince
Promotor Ghent University: Prof. Dr. Ir. Geert Haesaert and Prof. Kris Audenaert