Name Activity "Agricultural and Farm Development" "We study the complexity of choices made to increase sustainability. How does a competitive and sustainable production system function within an environmental, market and policy context? What makes it shock-resistant? We study the resilience of agricultural systems, develop decision support tools and models, study collaboration in the agro-food chain, create sustainability assessment tools and study learning processes in farmer groups." "Faculty of Engineering Technology" "VisionThe Faculty of Engineering Technology of Hasselt University is a young faculty established in 2013 when the industrial science programmes of the university colleges were integrated into the universities. The Bachelor and Master programmes in Engineering Technology are organised in collaboration with KU Leuven. The Bachelor programme is a multidisciplinary basic programme with the primary purpose to lead on to the subsequent Master''s programmes. There are six specialisations: civil engineering technology, chemical engineering technology, electromechanical engineering technology, electronics and ICT engineering technology, nuclear engineering technology and packaging engineering technology. The eight Master''s programmes (biochemical engineering technology, civil engineering technology, chemical engineering technology, electromechanical engineering technology, electronics and ICT engineering technology, energy engineering technology, nuclear engineering technology and packaging engineering technology) produce academically trained industrial engineers who can function as widely employable problem-solvers and/or developers. The industrial engineer is required to convert technology into practical solutions and implement technological innovations in industrial processes. The programme emphasises research, contributions to society and industrial practice. The Faculty has opted for high-quality applied research within a number of selected multidisciplinary spearheads. Part of the its research activities are conducted within Hasselt University''s research institutes. This is the case for research in the fields of packaging technology, functional layers, medical diagnostics, solar energy and energy storage (at imo-imomec), medical imaging, environmental chemistry and reuse of natural radioactive material (at CMK) and road design (at IMOB).The activities of the civil engineering research group are housed in the new Application Centre for Concrete. MissionThe Faculty of Engineering Technology strives for quality education, state-of-the-art quality multidisciplinary technological research and the practical application of knowledge. The Faculty focuses on the region, while maintaining a broad international orientation. Through active collaboration with regional industry in terms of education, research and services, the Faculty seeks to play an active role in the region''s further economic development." ArcK "Liesbeth HUYBRECHTS" "ArcK is the research group for the domains of architecture and interior architecture of Hasselt University. Domains which imply a spatial synthesis of material, cultural, aesthetic, social, urban, and societal aspects within a given situation or context. We believe that research within these domains should reflect this complexity. As a multidisciplinary team (including designers, urbanists, art historians, engineers, psychologists, and philosophers), we address theoretical and empirical research questions in their proper context. We use a wide range of research methods and emphasize the possibilities afforded by designing as a research method. Our approach is centered on the human aspect, embodied by both the spatial designer and the user, with particular attention to an inclusive and sustainable design process and design result.The main topics of ArcK center around five clusters, which partly overlap but also share the same ambition of generating knowledge that is useful for designers in order to create innovative visions of the future that will ultimately benefit society as a whole:Adaptive reuse deals with theoretical and designerly questions relating to aspects of reuse, transformation, or conservation of historical, abandoned, or underused buildings or sites. Capacity building (collaborative design processes) deals with how to actively include and engage users, future users, and other stakeholders in different stages of the complex process of design practice. Designing for More (user-space interaction) centers around the following questions: How are spatial environments experienced by their users? How do they affect people on a perceptual, cognitive, and emotional level? How do they interact with diverse groups of people, and how can they increase their well-being ? Sustainability (in design product and process) deals with the question how different aspects of sustainability can be incorporated in both the design process and the resulting product, and in the way we can support designers and architects to effectively deal with these issues. FRAME, the research line in collaboration with MAD-research, focuses on artistic research methods. FRAME wants to explore unconventional forms of knowledge in order to develop new ways of thinking in/about space and image." "Computational Sensing Systems" "The CoSenS Computational Sensing Systems research group focuses on application specific dedicated hardware architectures and systems for computational intensive applications. The application area is in sensing systems, such as high-resolution, high frame rate and/or ultra low latency cameras and this for applications in real-time depth vision, image processing, 3 to 6 degrees of freedom position measurements and object recognition. Applications are in multi-camera video and vision, medical, automotive, robotics, haptic systems and camera based deep-learning. By the directly implementation of computationally complex algorithms in System-on-Chip hardware, computationally intensive problems can be realized and implemented, enabling high frame rate, ultra low latency and low power solutions which can otherwise not be realized as such in regular programmable computer architectures based on CPUs and GPUs alone." "ECOOM - Centre for Research and Development Monitoring" "Wolfgang Glänzel" "The Centre for Research & Development Monitoring (Expertisecentrum Onderzoek en Ontwikkelingsmonitoring, ECOOM) is an interuniversity consortium with participation of all Flemish universities (KU Leuven, UGent, VUB, UA and UHasselt). Its mission is to develop a consistent system of R&D and Innovation (RD&I) indicators for the Flemish government. This indicator system has to assist the Flemish government in mapping and monitoring the RD&I efforts in the Flemish region." "Laboratory for Neurofibromatosis Research" "Hilde Brems" "The Laboratory for Neurofibromatosis Research conducts research into the following topics: Neurofibromatosis type 1, Legius syndrome and related MAP-Kinase disorders: molecular pathogenesis of the diseases and multidisciplinary clinical follow-up." "Topological Algebra, Functional Analysis and Category Theory" "Mark Sioen" "The research team investigates mathematical structures that are important in several basic areas of mathematics like geometry, representation theory, functional analysis, differential calculus or theory of approximation. The motivation also comes from outside mathematics, from computer science or physics where some of the mathematical structures that are studied are called upon as models. By application of methods from category theory the relation between these mathematical structures is studied. The compatibility of their fundamental constructions is investigated and a general study of their representability, as well as of their function space theory is undertaken. More specifically the theory of frames or locales uses order-theoretic notions to gain more insight in topological structures and to shed light on the use of choice principles in topology (or sometimes simply avoid them altogether). The theory of approach spaces provides the tools for obtaining quantified results in topology and in functional analysis, extending the isometric theory of Banach spaces. The team contributes to the development of the theory of semi-abelian categories and tensor categories Semi-abelian categories allow a unified setting for many important homological properties of non-abelian categories. Categories of quantum groups, of rings, of Lie-algebras and of crossed modules are typical non-abelian categories, often with a tensor structure. Abstract tensor categories lead to interesting non-commutative spaces (operator algebras) whose analytical properties are studied in connection with the properties of the associated category. The main emphasis is on representation categories of quantum deformations of semi-simple Lie groups." "University of Brussels - European Criminal Law" "University of Brussels - European Criminal Law" "Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM)" "Herman Bruyninckx" "An overview of our main research groups are:Robot-Assisted Surgery, autonomous Systems,  industrial Robotics and Mechantronics, assistive Robotics, Estimation, Control and Optimization and Robot and Machine Programming." "Analytical, Categorical and Algebraic Topology" "The research team investigates mathematical structures that are important in several basic areas of mathematics like geometry, representation theory, functional analysis, differential calculus or theory of approximation. The motivation also comes from outside mathematics, from computer science or physics where some of the mathematical structures that are studied are called upon as models. By application of methods from category theory the relation between these mathematical structures is studied. The compatibility of their fundamental constructions is investigated and a general study of their representability, as well as of their function space theory is undertaken. More specifically the theory of frames or locales uses order-theoretic notions to gain more insight in topological structures and to shed light on the use of choice principles in topology (or sometimes simply avoid them altogether). The theory of approach spaces provides the tools for obtaining quantified results in topology and in functional analysis, extending the isometric theory of Banach spaces. The team contributes to the development of the theory of semi-abelian categories and tensor categories Semi-abelian categories allow a unified setting for many important homological properties of non-abelian categories. Categories of quantum groups, of rings, of Lie-algebras and of crossed modules are typical non-abelian categories, often with a tensor structure. Abstract tensor categories lead to interesting non-commutative spaces (operator algebras) whose analytical properties are studied in connection with the properties of the associated category. The main emphasis is on representation categories of quantum deformations of semi-simple Lie groups."