Projects
Teaching Chemistry to Primary School Children: A Board Game Case Study Linking Material Hardness to Atoms and Bonds KU Leuven
In this work, it was investigated whether children can explain the mechanistic relationship between atoms and bonds and the hardness of materials by playing a custom-made board game. Recent studies show that primary school children can already understand and retain aspects of the particulate nature of matter after formal teaching interventions. In this project, material hardness was selected after conducting an extensive curriculum analysis ...
Study of the impact of puroindolines, polar lipids and their association with gluten proteins and/or starch on wheat hardness. KU Leuven
ThermoBreast : An innovative non-contact and harmless screening modality set to change the course of breast cancer detection and patient monitoring Vrije Universiteit Brussel
more than 2.26 million new cases of breast cancer. Early detection is crucial to survival; recovery rates approach 90% when detected
in early stages. National population-based cancer screening programmes in Europe currently implement 3 standard imaging
modalities: mammography, ultrasound and MRI. ...
Study of the formation of harmless RCF derived bisphenols and derivatives, and their UV-stabilizer and anti-oxidant properties KU Leuven
Catalytic novel routes to form harmless bisfenols will be studied. Green and sustainable synthesis routes will be followed to synthesize these bisfenols. UV-stabilizer and anti-oxidant protocols will be developed to measure these properties for the synthesized chemicals and materials.
LONG-TERM SEQUENTIAL USE OF BIOLOGIC THERAPIES IN INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE: HARMLESS OR HAZARDOUS? KU Leuven
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are illnesses that are characterized by chronic inflammation of the gut. To prevent the development of complications and to improve quality of life it is necessary to start treatment, which often includes biologic therapies or biologicals. The latter are designed to block specific pathways in our immune system to restore the dysbalance seen in disease state and due to the chronicity of IBD they need to be ...
The Darkness of Non-Being. A Husserlian Phenomenological Clarification of Illusion and Hallucination KU Leuven
My dissertation is the first book-length, systematic study of Husserl’s treatment of sensory illusion and hallucination. Working along with Husserl’s treatment by means of a reconstruction, explication, and deepening of Husserl’s insights and problems, the dissertation aims at discerning the nature of these two phenomena and at offering a systematic clarification of the a priori conditions of all actual and possible manifestations of illusory ...
TRANSMEMO: The sadness of Belgium: The family transmission of the memories of the Second World War Ghent University
Method in madness Ghent University
In the Enlightenment tradition, the faculty of reason was viewed as a defining characteristic of man, and irrationality was put in stark opposition to reason. This project goes beyond this traditional dualistic conception and aims to integrate irrationality in the framework of naturalized epistemology, which recognizes human reason as a biological faculty acquired over a long process of evolution.
Unravelling the evolutionary significance of non-lignin cell wall-bound phenolics: a multi-experimental analysis of fern sclerenchyma tissues Ghent University
When plants colonized land they needed adaptations to survive this new environment. Phenolic
compounds must have been of great importance to early land plants, given their functional roles as
cell wall strengthening components, light screens against intensive irradiation and phytophagy
deterrents. Lignin, one of the most studied phenolic compounds, is generally thought to have played
a pivotal role in strengthening ...