Projects
Complex regular fractional factorial experimental designs: enumeration, evaluation and application KU Leuven
Whether it is to minimize the operating costs of a production line, or to optimize the taste of a new dish in a kitchen, experiments are present all around us in many shapes and sizes. Any experiment can be boiled down to the study of a system, where input factors are changed to see how they affect the output. In most cases, there is some kind of restriction on the available resources. There are many different types of restrictions. For ...
Aligned, recycled carbon fibre-hybrid composites: microstructural design and advanced experimental characterisation KU Leuven
Het doel van mijn PhD-project is om een vezelbreukmodel te ontwikkelen dat nauwkeurig het spanning-rek-gedrag van uitgelijnde, discontinue vezelversterkte composieten voorspelt. Het project vereist uitgebreide experimentele validatie voor de schadeontwikkeling van discontinue uitgelijnde composieten, die zal worden uitgevoerd met behulp van synchrotron-computertomografie om in-situ ontwikkeling van vezelbreuken te begrijpen
Identification and optimization of ethanol tolerance mechanisms in Escherichia coli by means of experimental evolution. KU Leuven
Fossil fuel reserves are declining while energy demands continue to increase. Therefore, solving the energy issue poses one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Over the past decades, multiple efforts have been undertaken to facilitate the switch from fossil fuels to renewable biofuels. Especially bioethanol has gained much attention. It is one of the biofuels that is already widely integrated in our society. Ethanol is produced in ...
Process intensification of industrial O3/UV-reactors: experimental approach and modeling. KU Leuven
Eén van de grootste uitdagingen van de 21ste eeuw is het voorzien van drinkwater voor de steeds toenemende populatie op aarde. Een verregaande zuivering van (industrieel) afvalwater gekoppeld aan maximaal hergebruik is dan ook aangewezen. Deze verregaande zuivering kan in een tertiaire zuiveringsstap o.a. met behulp van geavanceerde oxidatietechnieken (AOPs) worden verkregen. De kostprijs van AOPs voor een volledigechemische oxidatie is over ...
A blended experimental and computational approach to assess control of standing balance KU Leuven
With age, our ability to complete seemingly simple activities of daily living declines. Older adults move slower, less accurate and more often lose their balance resulting in frequent falls, which might lead to significant injuries requiring medical attention and leading to loss of independence. Age is associated with declines in muscle strength, sensory acuity, motor acuity and cognitive ability, but our understanding of the relative ...
Fictions of Bio-Messiness: Interspecies Ambiguity in the Experimental Forms and Spaces of Post-1945 Novels Ghent University
Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity in representations of animal experimentation. Within “Fictions of Bio-Messiness” ‘experimentation’ operates on the levels of both content and form—that is, literature with animal experimentation as its subject and texts ...
Experimental evolution in Candida biofilms: does drug tolerance facilitate drug resistance development in fungi?Experimental evolution in Candida biofilms: does drug tolerance facilitate drug resistance development in fungi? KU Leuven
Invasive fungal infections pose a profound and growing public health threat with treatment failure and mortality estimates often surpassing 50%. Only three major antifungal drug classes are available to treat lethal fungemia and the incidence of resistance to these drugs has risen significantly in recent years. Moreover, multidrug resistant (MDR) ‘superbugs’ like Candida auris have emerged. Despite these alarming concerns, fungal infections ...
Synaesthesia for pain: an experimental analysis Ghent University
I want to investigate the variety os somatosensory responses towards observing pain in others ranging from the detection of somatic sensations, over the modulation of noxious input to the experience of pain synaesthesia by means of an experimental paradigm. As a recent provided model of pain synaesthesia has remained untested, I want to investigate the underlying processes and conditions.
The relation between appraisal variables and emotions: a research using indirect experimental methods Ghent University
We examine which aspects of a situation and/or person are crucial in the elicitation of emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness. Since we assume that emotion-antecedent information processing often occurs automatically, we use experimental tasks suitable for examining automatic processes, such as variants of the sequential priming tas and the Simon Task.