Projects
Early life determinants of healthy ageing during the first two decades of life: from the telomere interactome to clinical phenotypes. Ghent University
The WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, but not merely as the absence of disease or infirmity”. Ageing starts before birth and depends on factors that operate throughout life, and hence, the concept of healthy ageing also encompasses healthy growing and healthy living. Indeed, disorders in adults often find their origin in risk factors operative in early life. Senescence or biological ageing is ...
Early life determinants of healthy ageing during the first two decades of life: from the telomere interactome to clinical phenotypes Hasselt University
3if.eu fieldlab CBM (Condition Based Maintenance & IDSA (Industrial Data Space) LSEC - Leaders In Security
Inventing New Possibilities of Life: Ethico-aesthetics and the Meaning of Life in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy KU Leuven
My doctoral research aims to present Deleuze’s metaphysics of immanence as an original philosophy of life from a whole new ethico-aesthetic perspective. Deleuze's concept of life is a central paradigmatic concept underpinning his immanent ontology. While the vitalist meaning of the concept of life has been examined in the scholarly literature, its pragmatic meaning remains largely underexplored up to date. Deleuze’s full-fledged notion of ...
Towards a ‘network of life’: the relative role of lateral events in highland-lowland speciation under past environmental perturbation Ghent University
Speciation theory assumes that evolutionary change accumulates over space and time, either as a result of mutation-order or ecological speciation. While both mechanisms are theoretically plausible, the predominant speciation mode remains unknown for most species. Isolated mountain massifs are especially appealing to study speciation as both adaptive and non-adaptive processes are expected to co-occur. While diversification in montane systems ...
Living a Catholic life: Understanding the intimate lives of young Catholic women in Flanders KU Leuven
This PhD project takes the lives of (young) Roman Catholic women as a starting point to examine how religiosity is constructed and performed. I investigate how these women navigate between religious traditions and prescriptions, and secular society. Furthermore, I seek to explore how religious beliefs and teachings inform their interpretations, experiences, and practices pertaining to intimate relationships, and sexuality. The research adopts ...
EXPLORING THE CODE OF LIFE: FROM DECODING TO DESIGNING CELL TYPE-SPECIFIC ENHANCERS WITH DEEP LEARNING KU Leuven
Cellular identity, which is defined by the activity of certain genes, is provided by the transcriptional enhancer code combined with differential and combinatorial expression of transcription factors. This code plays a central role in the regulation of gene expression. To understand the functional impact of noncoding genome variation and to develop cell type-specific drivers, decoding the code of enhancers is essential. Here in this thesis, ...
Soldiering the equipment or equipping the soldier? Emergent Forms of Belgian Military Life: Innovation, Corporality and Technology. A Comparative Ethnographic Study of the NATO Frigate Helicopter and the Pathfinder Detachment. KU Leuven
This PhD, embedded in the blossoming field of military anthropology, studies how Belgian soldiers deal with (new) military technology, and how technological innovations redefine and reshape social socio-professional structures and relationships in low- and high-tech military settings. The latter were represented by two ethnographic case studies: the NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH) and the Pathfinder Detachment.
Each military technology is ...
Abundant Life: The Theology of Resurrection in the light of Migration KU Leuven
Reflecting on the phenomenon and the problem of migration, diverse scholarly studies easily adopt a sociological, practical-theological, ethical or narrative-biblical approach. These approaches are not the focus of our research. In the first chapter, we offer an analysis of the theological literature on migration. These analyses then bring us to the second chapter with the central focus on a systematic-theological reflection. Based on a ...