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The Department of Solid State Sciences has emerged from the former U+201CLaboratory of Crystallography and Study of the Solid StateU+201D, also called the U+201CLaboratory DekeyserU+201D, after its founder Prof. Willy Dekeyser. Under his guidance, the laboratory has given an importance boost to the development of solid state physics at the UGent and in Flanders, leading to well-known important scientific evolutions and numerous applications in ...

The research group Echo is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.