Projects
'Every thunder means something’. Meteorology, culture and the self in Late Antiquity Ghent University
Located at the intersection of cultural history and history of science, this project studies the cultural embedment of meteorology (that is, approaches to the prediction of weather and the explanation of the causes of meteorological phenomena) in Late Antiquity (4th-8th c.). Whilst meteorology has received a great deal of attention for Classical Antiquity, there is virtually no scholarship on the topic for Late Antiquity. The project intends ...
World-wide diversity of genotypes determining the bacterial catabolism of a pesticide: does it tell us something about the origin, evolution and distribution of catabolic gene clusters KU Leuven
World-wide diversity of genotypes determining the bacterial catabolism of a pesticide in arable fields: does it tell us something about the global origin, evolution and distribution of xenobiotic catabolic gene functions? KU Leuven
Despite the unnatural chemical structure of pesticides and the short
time frame in which they were released in the environment, bacteria
have emerged that carry catabolic pathways allowing to use the
compounds for growth. Interestingly, although originating from distant
geographical areas, isolates that degrade the same pesticide, display
basically similar catabolic pathways and genes, although with
differences ...
Enigma: something that seems impossible to understand completely. University of Antwerp
Ecotoxicity of metal mixtures on aquatic communities: something out of the blue? KU Leuven
The project will study the interplay between the gut microbiome and epigenetic modifications in response to stress by using the water flea Daphnia magna in combination with the cyanobacterium Microcystis aeruginosa as a model system. From our previous research, we know that both the gut microbiome and the epigenome are involved in the stress response of Daphnia sp. to Microcystis sp. Yet the lack of a combined integrative approach makes it ...
Ecotoxicity of metal mixtures to aquatic communities: something from nothing? Ghent University
Chemical contamination is still a likely reason for EU waterbodies not to reach a U+201Cood ecological
statusU+201D However, risk assessment of contaminated waterbodies is mainly focused on a substanceby-
substance basis, while mixed contamination is the rule rather than the exception. This is
definitively the case for toxic trace metals such as zinc, nickel and copper, which often occur close to
...
Towards Parallel-in-time Multiple Shooting Methods for Large-scale Optimal Control Problems governed by the Navier–Stokes Equations KU Leuven
In recent decades, the study of optimal control problems governed by Navier–Stokes equations has received noticeable attention in many applications. In the turbulent regime, the model equations in the control problem correspond to direct numerical simulations or large-eddy simulations, making the solution of the underlying optimization problem very expensive and challenging. Recent work has focused on improving optimization algorithms for ...
Enact: Enabling citizens through sustainability education. University of Antwerp
High yield synthesis of high quality expandable and high impact polystyrene via a sustainable multi-scale design strate Ghent University
For the Chinese and European polystyrene industry, a joint challenge is product innovation toward
high-quality products in a sustainable manner. Such innovation relies on the dedicated control of
multiphase polymerizations possessing a strong multi-scale character: (i) reactions and diffusional
limitations at the micro-scale; (ii) particle size/morphological changes at the meso-scale; (iii)
imperfect mixing and ...