On Friday 17 May 2013 Ralf Wieriks will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'The Landscape of Sustainability Assurance: Towards Further Shaping the Assurance Approach'. Supervisors are Professors Hans Gortemaker and Gert van der Pijl. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are professors Martin Hoogendoorn, Willem Verschoor (Erasmus School of Economics) and Philip Wallage (Universiteit van Amsterdam) 

On Thursday 18 April 2013 Vitalie Spinu will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Nonadditive Beliefs From Measurement to Extensions'. Supervisors are Professors Peter Wakker and Han Bleichrodt. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Professor Horst Zank (The University of Manchester), Dr. Kirsten Rohde and Dr. Vladimir Karamychev.

On Thursday 11 April 2013 Esther Pronker will defend her PhD thesis entitled 'Innovation Paradox in Vaccine Target Selection'. Supervisors are Professors Harry Commandeur, Professor of Industrial Economics and Business at Erasmus School of Economics, and Eric Claassen, Professor in Knowledge Valorisation in the Life Sciences at Erasmus Medical Center. Other members of the Doctoral Committee are Professor Albert Osterhaus (Erasmus Medical Center), Professor Adam Cohen (Leiden University Medical Center), and Professor Enrico Pennings (Erasmus School of Economics).