Projects
Questioning water modernity: a GIS-approach to the privatization and resilience of common drinking water systems in 18th- and 19th-century cities, test-case: Antwerp (1750-1900). University of Antwerp
Connecting knowledge, scales and actors; an integrated framework for adaptive organic resource management, targeting soil aggradation and agro-ecosystems ' resilience in SSA. KU Leuven
Knowledge platform: tailoring food protein functionality by rationaI design of fibrillar structures (PROFIBFUN) KU Leuven
To address the overall growing demand for sustainable high-quality food systems, it is of utmost importance to generate basic knowledge of food constituents in general and protein functionality and the impact of processing thereupon in particular. Many animal protein types including those from eggs have relatively good foaming, emulsifying and gelation properties. Several knowledge gaps currently hinder their partial or full replacement by ...
Water Fit for Reuse digital Architecture and Modeling Ecosystem (WaterFRAME). University of Antwerp
Holistic river water quantity-quality modeling. KU Leuven
Water engineering and management practices strongly evolved during recent years. More focus is given to integration of civil technical, hydrological, water quantity and quality, ecological and other aspects. However, this integration is to date not as efficient as it should be. This has both institutional and technical reasons. At the technical level, mathematical models are used as decision support tools, but are most often developed for ...
BIOSTABLE: safe drinking water now and in the future Ghent University
The goal of BIOSTABLE is to provide safe and tasty drinking water to all Flemish inhabitants now and in the future. Whereas currently quality control is guaranteed, several factors will influence drinking water use and quality in the Flemish region e.g. consumers are encouraged to rationalize their water use, a possible decentralization of water production facilities, climate change leads to possible higher temperatures, changes in organic ...
Assessing critical thresholds of tropical ecosystems integrity using water content estimated from field and microwave remote sensing data KU Leuven
Several ecosystems worldwide are subjected to droughts with certain frequency, and drought stress is a major driver of ecosystem functioning decreases, productivity losses, and disruptions in the carbon balance. Global climate change might aggravate issues related to drought stress, since more frequent and extreme droughts are expected in the future due to changes in the climate, and we still lack knowledge on many aspects of plants and ...
Evolutionary-ecological study of the synergistic (bio)pesticide cocktails on the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus and its competitor the water flea Daphnia magna KU Leuven
Natural populations are increasingly facing multiple stressors. Their ability to deal with interacting stressor combinations will be crucial for their local persistence. Populations of target species are typically exposed to pesticide mixtures and natural stressors, and are increasingly developing resistance to single pesticides. Nevertheless, we have poor knowledge whether natural stressors and the presence of pesticide resistance shape ...
Unravelling the impact of sourdough fermentations on the viscoelastic gluten network and the aqueous phase in a wheat wholemeal dough system in relation to gas cell stability KU Leuven
Food fermentation technology, including the use of sourdough, is increasingly re-examined as a sustainable technology that can improve the nutritional quality of products, next to adding flavour and shelf life. While much progress has been made in recent years concerning the microbial ecology of sourdoughs, a knowledge gap exists concerning the technofunctionality of sourdoughs in wheat (wholemeal) dough systems. Therefore, in this project, I ...