This is a list of recent Ph.D. theses completed under the supervision of one or more ASTRON staff members, or theses related to the WSRT or LOFAR. For a list of current Ph.D. students supervised by ASTRON staff,  please visit the students page.

2013

• Gabriele Guglielmino, A multifrequency study of the Lockman Hole region: preparing for a LOFAR deep survey, University of Bologna

2012

• Jaap Bregman, System design and wide-field imaging aspects of synthesis arrays with phased array stations : to the next generation of SKA system designers, University of Groningen
• André Offringa, Algorithms for radio interference detection and removal, University of Groningen

2011

• Reinout van Weeren, Radio emission from merging galaxy clusters, Leiden University
• Rutger van Haasteren, Gravitational Wave detection & data analysis for Pulsar Timing Arrays, Leiden University
• Tomas Martinsson, The distribution of mass within spiral galaxies : unique solutions from gas and stellar kinematics, University of Groningen
  
• Maciej Serylak, Modulation properties of radio-emitting neutron stars, University of Amsterdam

2010

• Christian Struve, The role of neutral hydrogen in the evolution of nearby radio galaxies, University of Groningen
• Panos Lampoproulos, The LOFAR epoch of reionization data model: simulations, calibration, inversion, University of Groningen
• Hanno Spreeuw, Search and detection of low-frequency radio transients, University of Amsterdam
• Vibor Jelic, Cosmological 21cm experiments: searching for a needle in a haystack, University of Groningen
• Eduardo Rubio Herrera, Galactic and extragalactic searches for pulsars and radio transients, University of Amsterdam
• Roberto Pizzo, Tomography of galaxy clusters through low-frequency radio polarimetry, University of Groningen
• Attila Popping, Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the Local Universe, University of Groningen

2009

• Erwin Platen, A void perspective of the cosmic web, Univeristy  of Groningen
• Alicia Berciano Alba, Strong gravitational lensing in the radio domain, University of Groningen
• Ramesh Karuppusamy, A study on giant radio pulses, University of Amsterdam
• Edo Loenen, Star formation and the ISM : interactions in the Milky Way and other galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen 
• Huib Intema, A sharp view on the low frequency radio sky, Leiden Observatory
• Anne-Marie Weijmans, The structure of dark and luminous matter in early-type galaxies, Leiden Observatory
• Rajat Manu Thomas, Cosmological reionization simulations for LOFAR, Kapteyn Institute Groningen
• Gemma Janssen, High precision radio pulsar timing, University of Amsterdam

2008

• Peter Kamphuis, The structure and kinematics of halos in disk galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Dominic Schnitzeler, Faraday tomography of the galactic ISM with the WSRT, Leiden Observatory
• Paolo Serra, Stars, neutral hydrogen and ionised gas in early-type galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen

2007

• Michiel Brentjens, Radio polarimetry in 2.5D, Kapteyn Institute Groningen
• Patrick Weltevrede, The modulation and propagation of the radio emission of pulsars, University of Amsterdam
• Roald Schnerr, Magnetic fields and mass loss in massive stars, University of Amsterdam
• Katarina Kovac, Searching for the lowest mass galaxies: an HI perspective, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Rense Boomsma, The disk-halo connection in NGC 6946 and NGC 253, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen

2006

• Gyula Józsa, Grand-design warps in galactic disks, University of Bonn
• Roy Smits, Properties and Geometry of Radio Pulsar Emission, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
• Bjorn H.C. Emonts, Nearby radio galaxies: the interplay of gas, star formation and active nucleus, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Edo Noordermeer, The distribution of gas, stars and dark matter in early-type disk galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Eva Manthey, The structure and interaction history of moderate luminosity mergers, Ruhr-University, Bochum
• Bjorn H.C. Emonts, Nearby radio galaxies: the interplay of gas, star formation and active nucleus, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen

2005

• Elena Gallo, Relativistic jets from stellar black holes, University of Amsterdam
• Benne Willem Holwerda, The opacity of spiral galaxy disks, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen

2004

• Hans-Rainer Klockner, Extragalactic hydroxyl, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Joeri van Leeuwen, Radio pulsars, University of Utrecht

2003

• Marco Beijersbergen, The galaxy population in the Coma cluster, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Michiel Kregel, The structure and kinematics of edge-on galaxy disks, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen

2002

• Marijke Haverkorn, WSRT polarimetric imaging of the warm ISM, Leiden Observatory

2001

• Inigo Garcia Ruiz, Warps in disk galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Yilva M. Pihlstrom, Radio studies of circumnuclear gas in active galaxies, Chalmers University, Goteborg
• Lodie Voûte, The many shapes of giant pulses, University of Amsterdam

2000

• Leon Koopmans, A study of radio-selected gravitational lenses, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Wendy Lane, HI 21cm absorbers at moderate redshift, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Martin Zwaan, Atomic hydrogen in the local Universe, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Carlos De Breuck, Very distant radio galaxies: search techniques and emission line properties, Leiden Observatory
• Marco Kouwenhoven, Pulsar observations with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, University of Utrecht
• Andrew J. Rivers, A blind HI search for galaxies in the northern Zone of Avoidance, University of New Mexico

1999

• J.M. Stil, Dwarf galaxies: dynamics and star formation, Leiden Observatory
• Remco Schoenmakers, Asymmetries in spiral galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• Arno Schoenmakers, A population study of giant radio galaxies, Utrecht University
• Rob Swaters, Dark matter in late-type dwarf galaxies, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen
• R.B. Rengelink, The Westerbork northern sky survey; the cosmological evolution of radio sources, Leiden Observatory
• Titus Galama, Gamma ray burst afterglows, University of Amsterdam

<1999

• Marc A.W. Verheijen, The Ursa Major cluster of galaxies, Kapteyn Institut, Groningen
• Ignas A.G. Snellen, A population study of faint Gigahertz peaked spectrum sources, Leiden Observatory