Projects
Quantifying and modelling the impact of small-scale water retention measures KU Leuven
My PhD work will be a part of the Project TURQUOISE, which aims to investigate the different aspects of implementation of blue-green measures (BGM). These BGMs are emerging techniques in climate adaptation that help improve water security by increasing water availability in the context of climate change. TURQUOISE is a joint project requiring efforts of different specialists from different universities and research institutes. My PhD work ...
FLAMENCO: Flavor, Lepton number, And Mass Explorations of Neutrinos at the COmpact muon solenoid Ghent University
Neutrinos, the subatomic particles that play a fundamental role in everyday nuclear processes like the solar fusion cycle, are very much a mystery despite their discovery already 60 years ago. Within the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the widely successful description of particles at the smallest scales, neutrinos are massless. As a result, the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of extremely tiny neutrino masses represents one of the greatest ...
Compact representation of biomedical signals. KU Leuven
Compact ornamental plant without growth retardants Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Breeding of (ornamental) plants is done by classical breeding techniques and a wide range of in vitro techniques. The aim of this research project of ILVO and Ghent University was to develop an innovative technique by co-cultivation with Rhizobium rhizogenes as a third standard method in breeding companies. This co-cultivation can have advantages such as spontaneous dwarf growth or a more compact growth. In the ...
Creating extremely performant compact heat exchangers through multi-scale shape optimization and 3D topology optimization KU Leuven
Opening new dimensions in the study of ultra-short variability and asteroseismology of compact pulsators with BlackGEM KU Leuven
Stellar variability studies have recently undergone immense boosts thanks to recent photometric surveys done with ground-based telescopes and with the CoRoT and Kepler space telescopes. This wealth of data led to huge progress in the understanding and improving of the theory of stellar structure and evolution, mainly thanks to asteroseismic applications. Unfortunately, some crucial phases in the life of stars could not or only hardly be ...
Towards compact, multimodal spectroscopic devices for the read-out of microfluidic organs-on-chip Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Zeros of matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials and critical measures on compact Riemann surfaces KU Leuven
This thesis mainly concerns non-Hermitian scalar-valued or matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials because of their connection to hexagon tiling models. In the case of doubly periodic tilings of the hexagon, matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials play a fundamental role. First, we study a concrete example of matrix-valued orthogonal polynomials that play a role in a family of 1×2-periodic tilings of the hexagon. We show that the matrix-valued ...
Optimization of Balanced Compact Heat Exchangers KU Leuven
This PhD project investigate the practical use and limits of multiscale optimization of compact balanced heat exchangers. The research builds on the expertise in the TFE group on multiscale heat transfer modelling, simulation and optimization and on a state-of-the-art finite-element simulation and optimization software for large-scale flow and heat transfer simulations on the basis of the FEniCS software package, that paves the way to finally ...