Projects

This project falls within the broader call 'Training for the Future' of Europe WSE (formerly ESF). In order to anticipate the dynamics of the labour market and better align the training and education on offer, a targeted focus on competences is necessary. The call 'Training for the future' aims to create training courses based on the results from the SCOPE competence forecasts or from similar studies. The project 'Major evolutions within ...

Prehensile systems have evolved multiple times independently among vertebrates. Prehensile tails is just one of those, which can be found in fishes, reptiles and mammals. With this project, we want to study how the musculoskeletal system has become adapted for this function, by performing biomechanical analyses and testing models using 3D printing. From that, we can also derive potential applications in industry or biomedical sciences.

The dissertation ‘Lawful Limits. Border Management and the Formation of the Habsburg-Dutch Boundary, ca. 1590-1665’ examines the creation of the territorial separation between the early modern Netherlands. Focussing on the Eighty Years War and the first years after the end of this conflict, the research examines the manifold actors who contributed to the emergence of the Habsburg Dutch-Border. Numerous people and institutions, ...

Residents in Vietnam are faced with an increased concentration of organic pollutants (e.g., humic acids, fatty acid, phenol, persistent and toxic pesticides,  pharmaceuticals, drugs, dyes, personal care products, etc) and heavy metals (e.g., As, Cu, Cd, Fe, Mn, Ca, Mg, etc) in water supply sources (reports from Ministry of Natural Resources & Environment, 2013) is caused by agricultural, industrial,  ...

Invasive fungal infections pose a profound and growing public health threat with treatment failure and mortality estimates often surpassing 50%. Only three major antifungal drug classes are available to treat lethal fungemia and the incidence of resistance to these drugs has risen significantly in recent years. Moreover, multidrug resistant (MDR) ‘superbugs’ like Candida auris have emerged. Despite these alarming concerns, fungal ...

The thesis combines different streams of literature on brokerage, recognizing the role of brokers in facilitating research interactions between emerging and developed market firms. Specifically, in this work, it is argued that brokerage is critical in mitigating resource dependencies between partners,  coping with partners’ psychic distances and managing institutional complexities – competing institutional logics of partners – ...

There has been an upsurge in studies on adaptive evolution in cities over the past five years because of its high relevance in the context of  population resilience and persistence, and the need to improve biodiversity conservation across anthropogenic landscapes. This proposal builds on the exceptionally well-documented multi-trait urban evolution in water fleas (Daphnia) in Flanders. I aim to address a number of key knowledge gaps in ...