Projects
Unlocking the Dark Universe with Gravitational Wave Observations: from QuantumOptics to Quantum Gravity. University of Antwerp
Unlocking the Dark Universe with Gravitational Wave Observations: from Quantum Optics to Quantum Gravity. KU Leuven
Unlocking the Dark Universe with Gravitational Wave Observations: from Quantum Optics to Quantum Gravity Vrije Universiteit Brussel
My Past was Dark, is my Future Darker?: An art-based inquiry to the experiences of female Unaccompanied Refugee Minors (URMs) with Asylum Practices in United Kingdom and Belgium KU Leuven
Performance management, big data and aggregation has moved public health further away from what makes us human. While some governments have recognised the need to enable a whole systems approach to tackle complex and pervasive health challenges such as inequalities, there is still much confusion over how local, national and international bodies work together to connect individuals and communities to the system. Key questions are how to shift ...
Revealing the dark side of epigenetic adaptation: belowground DNA methylation memories associated with drought stress KU Leuven
Plants can recognize and anticipate recurring drought stress through developing a stress memory. A drought stress memory can be obtained through accumulating DNA methylation marks at specific target sites in the genome. Such an epigenetic memory is particularly beneficial when plants frequently face drought stress, and is thus expected to become increasingly important as climate changes. Quantifying drought stress memories and their ...
Sabbatical Thomas Van Riet: A new perspective on the nature of dark energy KU Leuven
The operation of the universe remains a mystery on the very largest scale (cosmology) and the smallest scale (elementary particle physics). This is not a stumbling block to the development of most science and technology, because it focuses on the length scales between the largest and the smallest. However, to get an answer to the fundamental questions it is crucial to understand the extremes. What are the fundamental building blocks ...
Bird Atlas 2020-2024 Research Institute for Nature and Forest
Mechanistic underpinnings of bird distribution ranges: temperature tolerance and energetic constraints Ghent University
Global change is causing a redistribution of biodiversity worldwide. Humans continue to introduce species to areas far beyond their natural geographical ranges while changing climates force organisms to adapt, or to shift in location to stay within preferred environmental conditions. Understanding what underlies species’ geographical distributions is a longstanding question in ecology and evolution, given new impetus by the conservation ...
Using Sentinel 2 data to depict insectivore bird diversity as an animal-related Essential Biodiversity Variable - REDSTARTlite Ghent University
The main objective of REDSTARTlite is to use Sentinel-2 data to quantify species-environment relationships of (insectivorous) birds that depict the (bio)physical habitat properties delimiting species resources in detail to deduce an important animal-related RS-EBV. REDSTARTlite will amalgamate recent scientific advances in biodiversity modelling within the science-policy interface of the EBV framework by strongly capitalizing on the ...