Projects
Making (sense of) place. New participatory socio-spatial approaches for neighborhoods-in-flux KU Leuven
Participatory processes in neighborhood development aim to redivide power over how neighborhoods change. However, the way they are conceptualized and implemented poses challenges related to whose voice is included, hidden power dynamics and the risk of insurmountable tension and polarization. This dissertation aims to explore the potential of a relational and New Materialist place-based thinking to recast participatory processes for ...
Development of a multi-region methylation blood based test for pan-cancer detection. University of Antwerp
Meaningful and scaleable reuse and composition of models, with frames. University of Antwerp
Psychological coping with the legacies of collective violence: A multi-site qualitative exploration on the interacting role of coping within social, community and family relationships after political violence in Perú KU Leuven
In the aftermath of a prolonged internal armed conflict (1980-2000), Perú continues to face complex challenges in addressing the legacy of human rights abuses. Nearly 4 decades after, scholars continue documenting the transgenerational sequelae that still pervades the life of the victims, their relatives, and their communities. However, victims have initiated coping strategies and mobilized communal trajectories in searching for justice. This ...
A Combined Multibody and Plantar Pressure Approach to Estimate and Predict Foot Kinematics Applied to 3D-printed Insoles KU Leuven
In Europe, over 200 million people suffer from disabling foot and ankle pain caused by a variety of pathologies as overloading injuries, degenerative joint disorders and systemic diseases (e.g. diabetes). Foot orthoses (FOs) or insoles are a popular conservative treatment to alleviate pain and prevent further deterioration of the pathological condition; the goal is to optimize a patient’s foot function by relieving symptoms and slow down or ...
The use of river valleys by prehistoric hunter-gatherers: a study in the eastern Flemish Valley. KU Leuven
River valleys and basins have played a primordial role in the ecology of prehistoric huntergatherers, from their earliest Palaeolithic appearance to the last nomadic groups of the Holocene. Regional distribution maps unvariably show the close association of human occupations and hydrographic features. Obviously, the latter were important in huntergatherer subsistence but they may also have functioned as demographic corridors or sink/source ...