Projects
Synthesis and transformation of muconic acid into platform molecules starting from biomass (MUCOFORM). University of Antwerp
Spectatorship as a Political Act. Re-Assessing the Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere University of Antwerp
Supporting human capital in digital transformation for process optimization and condition-based maintenance. KU Leuven
The digital transformation to industry 4.0 is creating new digitized machines, production lines and installations. Thanks in part to advanced sensors and the use of artificial intelligence, existing assets can be optimized in terms of maintenance, energy efficiency, life span, and productivity, among other things. This digitalization requires the sharpening of existing or the acquisition of new competencies, for example by following the ...
Responsive Urbanism: Incremental transformation in the urban crust KU Leuven
This research focuses on the mechanisms and repercussions of urban transformation processes at the small grain in the urban tissue. It investigates the production of built form and space as the result of incremental change as it occurred throughout history, and it explores alternatives in the face of today’s urban challenges, in particular in the context of Flanders Centre-Cities. This research looks into the possibilities of a method of ...
Mainstreaming Ecological Restoration of freshwater-related ecosystems in a Landscape context: INnovation, upscaling and transformation Ghent University
Europe's environment is in an alarming state, with climate change effects aggravating. To secure economic prosperity, human wellbeing and social peace, systemic transformative change of our society is imperative. Ecosystem restoration using nature-based solutions (NbS) is key to this change, in which freshwaters hold a pivotal role. MERLIN will demonstrate freshwater restoration bestpractice; implement innovative NbS at landscape-scale; ...
Language access and content enrichment of Brepols' full-text databases: an AI and NLP-based transformation into a dynamic research, reading and learning environment KU Leuven
Based on the most recent developments in computational linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (NLP), this Baekeland mandate strives for a multi-layered connection, deepening and enrichment of Brepols' Latin and Greek text corpus, both from a linguistic and content-based perspective, each time on word, sentence and text level. This transformed and enriched corpus will form the backbone of a dynamic research, ...
Shedding light on medieval landscape transformation in the North Sea coastal plain: an interdisciplinary approach combining retrogressive analysis, deposit modeling and optically stimulated luminescence profiling and dating Vrije Universiteit Brussel
North Sea coastal plain during the Middle Ages, and the strategies
people developed to live in this wetland landscape, especially for the
earliest phases of reclamation in the first millennium AD, which are
currently neither well-studied nor well-understood. This requires
identifying, examining and accurately dating the traces of earlier
...
Sabbatical Marc Swyngedouw: The redesigned political ideological space: socio economic and urban transformation processes, glocalization, transforming welfare state provisions and (re)new(ed) cleavages. KU Leuven
In twenty years' time, the political power space in Flanders has been completely distorted. The three traditional parties (CD&V, Open-VLD and sp.a) still accounted for 38.6% in the Flemish elections of 2019.
In 1999 they still accounted for 60%. The proportion of voters that the three traditional parties were able to win in the 1991 parliamentary elections in Flanders – the start of the ISPO election survey – was 66%. The ...