Projects
Exclusive DIS reactions in the HERMES experiment. Ghent University
Nutritional needs of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and the role of the gut microbiome KU Leuven
The honey bee population is currently facing various challenges, including pesticides, the parasitic mite Varroa destructor, and a reduction in available food sources. In beekeeping practices, food supplementation is used to support the health, strength, and winter survival of bee colonies. The nutritional needs of honey bees vary depending on their life stage or role within the colony. Research indicates the existence of caste-specific ...
Polymorph selection of APIs at functionalized surfaces using SHG KU Leuven
Crystalline materials commonly display a surprisingly large variety of stable and metastable crystal structures with distinctive physical properties. This phenomenon is called polymorphism. A well-known example is the element carbon which can exist as diamond, graphite, graphene, fullerene etc. In the pharmaceutical industry, control over the polymorph outcome is crucial, because the crystal structure determines the efficacy, stability and ...
Public health risks of Microplastics and trace metals in drinking water supply system components in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ghent University
This PhD research project involves the determination of the pollution status of Addis Ababa drinking water with respect to microplastics and trace metals. Drinking water samples will be collected from different points across the drinking water supply chain and analysed for microplastics and trace metals. By doing this the possible point sources of pollution and the potential public health risk associated with drinking water will be ...
Multi-actor collaboration dynamics and capacity building network inside and between AKIS to foster the upscaling of SFSCs across Europe Ghent University
In line with the new CAP post2020, the F2F Strategy and the Green Deal, the EU4Advice Project will develop enabling methodologies and tools to connect short food supply chains (SFSCs) advisors in a common network with the aim of fostering the upscaling of consumer-producer chains across Europe. SFSCs are a mean for producers to increase their bargaining power and to improve their position within the value chain and for consumers to increase ...
EU-FarmBook: supporting knowledge exchange between all AKIS actors in the European Union Ghent University
An online, open-source, European knowledge reservoir about agriculture and forestry practical solutions was developed by two EU projects, EURAKNOS and EUREKA. The EU-funded EU-FarmBook project will further develop this digital platform, making it easy to search for and share practical knowledge about farming and forestry from regional, national and EU research and innovation projects. This is the first long-term, EU-wide digital knowledge ...
Urbanization and Sustainable Development in Ethiopia: Peri-urban Areas of Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa Cities in Focus Ghent University
This research investigates dynamics of conflict and contestation as a result of processes of rural-urban transformation in Ethiopia.
The research will use a comparative case study design to better understand peri-urban land and housing markets in two urban settings. To gain a better understanding of the multiple possible pathways, research will be conducted both in a major urban center and in a secondary city. In each city, two ...
Monitoring and controlling solid form of APIs crystallized from supramolecular gels by means of NLO techniques KU Leuven
In this project, we will apply harmonic light scattering (HLS) and microscopy as an accessible alternative optical technique to measure the supramolecular gel mediated crystallization of amino acids. For these active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), polarized SHG microscopy has been used to discriminate their polymorphic forms and chirality, to study their growth kinetics. However, the direct detection of nucleation has hitherto stayed out ...
APISEC: Safe API's for fintech companies KU Leuven
General purpose The overall goal of the APISEC project is to enable software vendors in the fintech sector to quickly and effectively use complex new technologies in API security as a fundamental lever for their success in the digital economy. The practical goal is the knowledge building and knowledge transfer of a useful framework to facilitate the assessment and application of advanced API security tailored to this sector. This framework ...