Projects
Development of non-destructive analysis protocols for the chemical and isotopic analysis of archaeological materials KU Leuven
New analysis protocols for the non-destructive chemical analysis of ancient materials will be developed. Micro - X-ray fluorescence (µXRF) will be used to look at major to trace element compositions. Laser ablation – multi collector - inductively coupled plasma - mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICP-MS) will be used to perform isotopic analysis, focusing on Pb-Sb-Sr-Nd isotope ratios. Protocols will be developed, for both methods, custom-made to the ...
TiO2 Gas Phase Photocatalysis from Morphological Design to Plasmonic Enhancement KU Leuven
The past decades, photocatalysis has emerged as a powerful technology for pollution abatement and energy applications, but its use in gaseous environment is less obvious than in water borne applications. Therefore this thesis specifically aims at understanding and improving TiO2-based photocatalysis in all its facets towards gas phase processes.
In first instance a suitable photoreactor is developed and validated. A simple ...
Almost inner derivations of Lie algebras KU Leuven
A classical problem in spectral geometry was to determine whether or not isospectral manifolds are necessarily isometric. It turns out that the answer to this question is negative and several counterexamples have been given. For the construction of continuous families of isospectral and non-isometric manifolds, class preserving automorphisms of nilpotent Lie groups were crucial.
An automorphism of a group is called class preserving if ...
What works for high risk students? Looking for clues to improve their academic outcomes KU Leuven
What works for high-risk students? Looking for clues to improve their academic outcomes.
Gudrun Vanlaar (Supervisors prof. B. De Fraine & prof. J. Van Damme)
Educational research shows that students with a low socioeconomic status (SES), an immigrant background, and/or special educational needs are more vulnerable for academic underachievement. This doctoral project focuses on the question how the gap between high- and ...
SHE for HIM: Simulated Human Environment for the Human Interface Mate KU Leuven
Machine learning is giving computers the ability to learn, or adapt their behavior, based on information they receive. By giving these "learning programs" the right information, they can be trained for a specific purpose. At this point in time, most of the machine learning algorithms that are trained need a large amount of training data in order to become good at something. One could train a program to recognize cars in a picture for example, ...
Development of Inorganic Polymers for Near-zero Energy Dwellings KU Leuven
Alkali activation has been emerging as a sustainable technology to produce innovative construction materials. Alkali-activated materials have been extensively investigated, but different levels of scientific understanding and industrial implementation can be found among several subgroups of such materials.
The most widely examined alkali-activated materials are commonly known as geopolymers. The scientific knowledge of their reaction ...
TEM analysis. University of Antwerp
SEM/TEM analysis. University of Antwerp
Multiscale modelling of plastic anisotropy of automotive steels KU Leuven
The proposed project contributes to the development of a multiscale modelling platform for advanced metal forming simulations. For that purpose, suitable parametric representations of the (dual phase) microstructures will be searched and corresponding virtual, microstructure-based RVE generators will be built. The scientific core of the project will be the extension of single phase polycrystal plasticity models available at KU Leuven to dual ...