On January 11, 2023, Ward Quaghebeur successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Hybrid models of dynamical systems: neural differential equations, Shapley value analysis, and illustrations in water systems" and was awarded the title of Doctor of Bioscience Engineering: Mathematical Modelling. Ward was supervised by Ingmar Nopens, Bernard De Baets and Elena Torfs. His research was supported by the Research Foundation - Flanders.