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 ...
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.
Queering the censorship: A (self)-investigation through the first-person perspective of an experimental filmmaker in Vietnam. University of Antwerp
BOF-ZAP post in Experimental Psychology Ghent University
BOF-ZAP post in Experimental Psychology (Frederick Verbruggen)
Understanding the Behaviour of Building Integrated Photovoltaic Facades. Numerical and Experimental Analysis KU Leuven
Climate research has shown that anthropogenic CO2 emissions are the primary cause of global warming. The higher global temperatures associated with global warming are disrupting local climates and ecosystems in a catastrophic manner. In order to limit global warming, a deep transformation of all human systems is imperative. Among others, an unprecedented increase in the use of renewable energy sources is necessary to achieve a climate-neutral ...
Understanding the Causal Role of Attention Biases in Depression: Experimental manipulation of attention using Eye-Tracking Techniques Ghent University
The aim of this project is to develop new techniques to manipulate attention biases in depression. A procedure targeting attention biases will be developed to clarify their role in social disturbance. Another procedure will analyze the role of attention-interpretation interplays in depressive disturbances. Finally, these techniques will be used with depressed patients to clarify their efficacy in modifying clinical symptoms.