Projects
Novel light regimes and drought effects on temperate forest plant biodiversity Ghent University
Tree canopies are one of the most recognizable features of forests, providing shelter from external influences to a myriad of species that live in the understorey. Canopy disturbances are now accelerating across European forests, and climate-change induced drought is a key driver. These disturbances are opening the canopy and exposing forest biodiversity to no-analog light regimes and drought – light and drought levels they have never been ...
Functional Piezoelectric Nano Composite Fibers for Smart Drug Delivery KU Leuven
The development of controlled drug delivery systems has been extensively investigated to improve the therapeutic efficacy of conventional drug products. The control over biodistribution and pharmacokinetics is critical to enhance the efficacy and minimizing the side effects of therapeutic agents. An on-demand drug delivery system for precise control over the release time and the quantity of drugs is needed which has not been studied ...
Probing Gauge Symmetries and Gauge-Matter Interactions using Tensor Networks Ghent University
We are in the midst of the second quantum revolution. Highly entangled quantum matter is being discovered, engineered, controlled and probed across a wide range of scales and conditions; quantum platforms are being used to emulate other quantum systems. The ability to simulate the quantum world on classical computers has been instrumental in guiding, validating and diagnosing these exciting developments. As the quantum world is probed beyond ...
Lay Women: International Experts and Theologians avant-la-lettre. Legacies and Entangled Histories (1945-1962) KU Leuven
The overarching objective of this project is to demonstrate European Catholic lay women's vital contributions as international agents, thinkers and theologians avant-la-lettre, from the end of World War II up to the celebration of the Second Vatican Council (1945-1962). While several studies have dealt with lay (and religious) women during and after the Council, their pioneer role as intellectuals and international experts in the ...
Pushing Boundaries in Pre-clinical Aortopathy Research (BREAK-OUT). University of Antwerp
The natural K, Fe, and Cu isotopic response to Pt-based chemotherapeutic drug resistance in ovarian cancer Ghent University
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally and in the EU, and was responsible for an estimated one in six deaths in 2018. Early diagnosis plays an important role in determining cancer treatment outcomes, but the diagnosis of ovarian cancer poses significant challenges; the routine screening of asymptomatic average-risk women is not recommended by any professional society. Chemotherapy using Pt-based compounds (e.g. carboplatin, ...
Teaching the Cosmos in Poetry and Prose: Aratus' Phaenomena and Cleomedes' The Heavens in Late Byzantium Ghent University
COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy and ultimately, it investigates medieval Greek solutions to the question as to how to explain the cosmos through literary means. This is a project about the interaction of science and literature and about interpreting scientific literature as literature in the context of the intellectual space of the Byzantine schools and the multiple curricula coexisting at the higher ...