Name Responsible Activity "Department of Electronics and information systems" "Koen De BosschereJan Van CampenhoutRik Van de Walle" "The main activities of the Department of Electronics and Information Systems (ELIS) are situated in the fields of electronics, computer science and ICT. In particular in these technical fields, the evolution in industry and society is taking place faster than ever, and this has a very strong impact on university departments like ELIS. We believe it is our role to be at the very forefront of the evolution, preparing our engineering students to fully participate in it now and in the years to come, and stimulating our researchers to contribute to the new developments." "Electrical Engineering and Power Electronics" "The study group is mainly doing research and teaching in the following domains -Electric and Hybrid Vehicles- where the current activities consists of vehicle evaluation and demonstration, standardisation, drive train simulation, inductive charger development, battery testing and development of state-of-charge measurement techniques. Dissemination activities in collaboration with CITELEC, Association of Cities interested in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, and AVERE, the European Association of Electric and Hybrid Road Vehicles -Electrical drives and Power Electronics where the research focuses on ac drives for industrial application, dc and ac drives for electric vehicles and special power electronic equipment for electric vehicles. Beside there are also dissemination activities in collaboration with EPE, the European Power Electronics and Drives Association. -Computational Electrochemistry. This research group is approaching electrochemical phenomena from an electrical engineering and numerical engineering point of view. The research is done in close co-operation with the industry. Two main areas are covered: modelling of transport of charge and mass occurring in general electrochemical systems, macroscopic modelling of corrosion and cathodic protection of buried pipelines. The models are developed using an object oriented code enabling a more general approach to solve field equations -Lighting or illuminating engineering where the main research topics are structured around : basic visibility criteria and visual ergonomics, public, tunnel and residential area lighting design, material's reflection characterisation, reflector design, integration of (day)light and building functions in architectural design -Dissemination in the field of electrical engineering in collaboration with SRBE/KBVE, the Belgian Royal Society for Electrical Engineering." "Electronics - ICT" "Electronics and Informatics" "ETRO (Electronics and Information Processing) focuses on three major topics: devices and electronic technology (LAMI) on the one hand, and on the other hand the processing of information through electronic means in fields related to digital images and video (IRIS) and speech (DSSP). 1. IRIS studies how to map image processing algorithms on appropriate architectures for efficient implementation, image and video compression, data visualisation, pattern recognition, tracking based on visual cues and various aspects of machine vision in applications like satellite image analysis, medical imaging, industrial visual inspection, anti-personnel mine detection. 2. DSSP studies the analysis, modification, and (re-)synthesis of acoustic speech signals by digital processing equipment. It deals with diverse fields, among which are digital signal processing, pattern recognition, phonetics and software/hardware development. 3. In micro-electronic technology research (LAMI), the emphasis of the research is on optical/electrical interconnect technology, new opto-electronic/electronic devices and the design of mixed analog/digital circuits. Together, the three subunits within ETRO are covering a wide range of generic technologies in the field of Information Technology, which cannot be dealt with separately when the real world applications of the 'information society' are envisaged." "Nanostructured and organic optical and electronic materials (NANOrOPT)" "Wim Wenseleers" "Optical spectroscopy (absorption and emission, raman scattering, ultrafast laser spectroscopy) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR; continuous and pulsed, in X-band, 9.5 GHz, and at high frequency in W-band, 95 GHz) spectroscopy are applied in the research group in order to investigate the properties of different condensed matter systems, and in particular: (i) Defects and impurities in technologically relevant crystalline materials e.g., bismuth germanate, BGO, as photorefractive material, respectively, and the superhard cubic boron nitride (c-BN) for (opto)electronics in special environments. (ii) Metal/semiconductor and metal/insulator/semiconductor structures with spin polarised injection and collection of electrons for application in the new field of spintronics. (iii) Molecular compounds with special magnetic properties, including high-spin transition metal clusters with so-called ""single-molecule magnet"" behaviour. (iv) Organic and organometallic molecular compounds with nonlinear optical (NLO) properties for applications in opto-electronics and photonics. (v) Nanostructured composite materials, based on arylene-vinylene derivatives and fullerenes, for organic opto-electronics and in particular photovoltaics. (vi) Single-wall carbon nanotubes and their composites with organic compounds studied by optical and EPR spectroscopy, taking advantage of the original solubilisations methods. To a large extent, the optical and EPR instruments are shared with the SIBAC research group of Prof. dr. S. Van Doorslaer, and the two groups join forces in several topics of research. The ECM team collaborates intensively with materials preparation laboratories, applied research groups and theoreticians, within the university as well as outside of it, worldwide." "Electronic Circuits and Systems (ECS)" "Wim Dehaene" "Divsion ESAT - MICAS, Micro-elektronics en Sensors MICAS is a research division with a world class reputation in the domain of integrated circuit and sensors design. The focus of the research is on circuit level design and MEMS development. MICAS designs chips for power management, communication, biomedical applicartions and so on. We span everything from DC to mm-Wave and optical. For this we cooperate with semiconductor companies, academic as well as research institutions. Almost all MICAS chips are fabricated in the most advanced technologies. Afterwards these chips are packaged and tested in the most advanced and extensive package and measurement infrastructure of MICAS: ICLab. More information about the MICAS-team, the research topics, our realisations and much more can be found on http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/micas    " "ET: Smart ICT - Elektronica-Research" "The PXL Smart ICT Expertise Centre researches and develops all kinds of smart applications of emerging technologies and bundles practice-based research and services at the cutting edge of IT and electronics. PXL Smart ICT focuses on mobile technology and searches for smart solutions for objects and communities: from smart sensors, watches, phones and tablets, to smart buildings and smart cities. In doing so, the applicability and deployability of developed applications in practice is always paramount. As an interdisciplinary centre of expertise, PXL Smart ICT also supports and advises organisations in the logistics sector, healthcare and education in their search for smart applications." "Department of Criminology, Criminal Law and Social Law" "Gert Vermeulen" "The Department of Criminology, Penal Law and Social Law brings together three research disciplines. The research discipline of Criminology conducts and promotes internationally relevant scientific research regarding criminal policy issues. The field of research focuses on three main themes: justice and home affairs in the EU, international and comparative criminal law and criminal justice, and Belgian criminal law and criminal justice. More in-depth, the following phenomena are studied: drugs, organised crime and corruption, and trafficking in human beings and sexual exploitation of children." "Leuven Centre on Information and Communication Technology" "Dominique Schreurs" "The LICT Center bundles the complementary expertise of (electronic) engineers, computer scientists, sociologists and law experts all active in the area of ICT, being it hardware, software, or related legal and social aspects.The research activities of the center can be classified in 8 research lines.- Analog, Mixed-Signal & RF building blocks- Circuits & Systems for Sensing & Communications- Embedded Hardware and Software- Distributed Software- ICT Security & Safety- Multimedia Processing- Human-Computer Interaction- Data & Knowledge Science.The different research lines come together in cross-technology themes like “Green ICT”, “Big Data” and “Internet-of-Things” and find their application in domains like ""Health, Sports and Ambient Assisted Living"", “Smart Environments (Buildings, Cities, Industry, ...)”, “Media & Content”, “Transport, Logistics & Automotive”, ""Learning"" and ""Agriculture & Food""." 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