Projects

Yellow fever serology assays for measuring the presence of neutralizing antibodies and in vivo experiments to assess the immunogenicity and efficacy of yellow fever vaccine candidates.

Infections with gastrointestinal worms, including the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, occur throughout the developing world and remain a major public health problem in the poorest communities with lack of personal hygiene, environmental sanitation and safe drinking water. Children are at highest risk of these worm infections, which lead to nutritional deficiencies, anaemia and impaired physical and mental development. To fight these ...

In pigs, we showed that serology has a clear added value in the detection of soil-transmitted helminths and estimating the impact of infections in these animals. In this project, we want to evaluate whether our serological test also provide additional insights into the epidemiology of soil-transmitted helminth infections in humans and whether it can be used to monitor deworming programs.

Over the years sensors expanded their field of use from scientific exploration to consumer electronics, and their market evolved accordingly. Quantum technologies are expected to further push sensor’s performances, unlocking even more application domains, exploiting non-classical correlation of light and matter to extract the relevant information beyond the limit dictated by classical noise processes, improving performances such as ...

Since the 1990s, history of astrology has become a flourishing topic on which dozens of books and papers are published annually. However, there is something strange about this literature: it appears to have great difficulty in bridging the divide between pre-modern and late modern history. Already, few historical studies consider astrology beyond c. 1650 CE; but it is next to impossible to find original and reliable research on astrology in ...

In LASIQ I will develop, for the first time, an on-chip titanium-sapphire mode-locked laser capable of generating low-noise optical
frequency combs in the 650-1100 nm wavelength range.
Optical frequency comb generators are light sources capable of generating a spectrum of millions of equally spaced laser lines. Such
light sources allow to down-convert optical frequencies (THz) to the microwave domain (GHz), enabling precision ...