Projects
Individual differences in Sensory Processing Sensitivity: A multilevel and multimodal perspective KU Leuven
Leadership is in the eye of the beholder: Studying the effect of appearance on personal electoral success. University of Antwerp
Temperament-parenting interplay as source of individual differences in youngsters with neurodevelopmental disorders Ghent University
Although all youngsters with neurodevelopmental behavioral disorders (NDBDs) are at increased risk to develop problems, wide variability exists. Some children show extreme problems, whereas others thrive relatively well. This project aims to examine how temperament and parenting, vitally crucial for all children, can explain this wide heterogeneity in youngsters with NDBDs. To unravel syndrome-(a)specificity, I will target differences across ...
Getting closer? A longitudinal study assessing adolescents' self-disclosure and social capital formation in social network sites. University of Antwerp
The limits of personal autonomy: reproductive rights as case study for a research into the conditions of a fundamental principle of law KU Leuven
Scientific developments within medically assisted procreation generate more and more possibilities for prospective parents. One of these new techniques is pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), which enables the screening of embryos, not only for genetic defects, but also other traits, like gender or eye colour. The perfectibility of man slowly becomes apossible reality in this way.
The central question of this research is ...
Unravelling risk factors for chronic dizziness in patients after an acute unilateral vestibular deafferentiation syndrome. University of Antwerp
Data-driven image-based phenotyping and inferencing. KU Leuven
In the next five to twenty years, whole genome sequencing will become the standard of care in clinics. In parallel, imaging systems are improving in resolution and modalities for deep and longitudinal phenotyping. This presents new methodological challenges in image analysis, with uncharted high impact applications in personalized, preventive and precision medicine and cross-modal inferencing. My research program aims to substantially advance ...
Language productivity at work Ghent University
Language patterns are more or less ‘productive’, depending on their lexical scope. An interdisciplinary approach is needed to compare attested productivity, in present-day language use as well as through history, to on-line and off-line language processing, and to measure the impact of
personal variables. Only in this way can one arrive at a better understanding of what productivity is.