Projects
Defying the 'Plantationocene': Exploring the ways a 'Green Economy' can lead to socio-ecological transformation. University of Antwerp
Platform Revolution from the Margin: How E-commerce Platforms Transform Peri-urban Spaces in China KU Leuven
E-commerce has grown substantially in China over the past decade, with Chinese digital platform providers becoming serious competitors for western corporations. In this project, I aim to examine the rapid expansion of China’s platform economy and resultant transformations of the country. I will add a sorely-lacking geographical perspective, which will contribute to explaining the role of geography in the development of platform economy and ...
The effect of spasticity on reactive balance in children with cerebral palsy KU Leuven
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common cause of physical disability in children. CP is caused by a non-progressive lesion to the developing brain. The resulting inability to selectively control muscles, reflex hyper-excitability, and muscle weakness leads to gait and balance impairments. Children with CP have deficits in reactive balance control, which is defined as the ability to maintain balance after an unpredictable disturbance. Reactive ...
The effect of parametric excitation on the prediction of railway induced vibrations in the built environment. KU Leuven
Ground-borne noise and vibration due to railway traffic is a problem oflarge societal and economical relevance. Railway induced vibrations aredue to several excitation mechanisms including wheel and rail unevenness, impact excitation due to rail joints and wheel flats, and parametric excitation due to spatial variation of the track stiffness.
Considerable progress has been made regarding the development of numerical prediction ...
Multi-Loop and Subsampling Phase Detector Architectures for 128 GBd PAM4 Clock and Data Recovery Ghent University
To support the increasing demands for higher data rates in datacenter interconnects, next generation Ethernet standard (1.6 TbE) foresees 8 lanes carrying 224 Gbps. The electronics to support these high data rates are yet to be developed. One of the critical building blocks in these transceivers is the clock and data recovery circuit (CDR), which reconstructs a clock signal to sample the incoming data stream at the most optimal point. This ...
Just Air? The Spatial Politics of Urban Air Pollution. KU Leuven
Air pollution is the largest environmental health hazard in the Western world. Especially cities are often ‘hotspots’ of air pollution. However, we are not all equally exposed to bad air. Due to the increasing role of traffic as one of the most important causes of air pollution, mainly people living near major roads suffer from its detrimental health effects. This project develops two case studies in Antwerp and London, where this unequal ...
Lineage-specific epigenetic regulation by TET1 in the pre-streak mouse embryo KU Leuven
Gastrulation is an important point early in the development of the embryo, when it transforms from a flat layer of cells into a multilayer structure. During this stage, the embryo mainly consists of two distinct cell layers: the epiblast, that will give rise to the actual embryo and the extraembryonic ectoderm, that will give rise to the placenta. However, changes in the DNA that happen during gastrulation, such as DNA demethylation, are not ...