Leuven Space and Society (LSAS) groups researchers working on the interconnections between society, environment and space. Environment is understood here as "human environment" - the environment produced or transformed by humans, i.e. manipulated nature. Space is the common denominator in our research fields and is understood as multiscalar and multidimensional, including space as structure of social changes, as agency in ...
The Leuven centre for Aero & Space science, technology and Applications (LASA) works in the fields of aero- and astronautics, supporting the development of advanced methods.The research focuses ono five research lines:
1. development of numerical simulation techniques for scientific and technical analysis in space, aerospace and aeronautics
2. development of experimental techniques for scientific and technical analysis in ...
In the research domain Open space, the agricultural use of open space is studied. The open space in Flanders is restricted. Therefore it is important that it is used in an efficient and qualitative way. Moreover, agriculture is not the only user of this open space, so attention is also paid to the relation with other stakeholders such as inhabitants, industry, recreation, nature.
In operations research, a challenging research area is combinatorial optimization. Next to exact methods such as branch-and-bound, branch-and-price, also approximation algorithms are studied. Assignment and scheduling problems, winner determination problems and research on client-oriented vehicle routing problems are some of the subjects under study. Further emphasis is placed on machine scheduling, resource-constrained project planning and ...
The KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law has a solid track record as a law and ethics partner of large international and interdisciplinary research projects. It is internationally renowned for its expertise in the areas of data privacy and information security law, new media and communications law, information rights management, intellectual property rights, and legal dimensions of ehealth.
Our researchers focus on the ...
Inter-Actions – situated at LUCA School of Arts in C-Mine Genk - bundles a series of research groups which focuses on design and artistic research, evoking inter-actions between people, domains and disciplines, while exploring the possibilities of old and new materials, artefacts, media, spaces and events.
By separating “inter” from “actions”, the unit stresses that its research wants to stimulate people “acting (actions) together ...
The VUB Astronomy and Astrophysics department is involved in research at the forefront of the field. We study the origins of cosmic rays, which tell us about the most energetic events in the universe (thousands of times more energy than man-made experiments can produce). We observe and model radio galaxies with supermassive black holes at their centers. We look for elusive dark matter by studying the movement of the gaseous ...