Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Research Centre for Economics and Corporate Sustainability, Brussels Campus" "Ingrid Molderez" "CEDON (Center for Economics and Corporate Sustainability) is an interdisciplinary group of researchers with backgrounds in economics, psychology, environmental sciences, engineering and biomedical sciences." "Modelling for Sustainability (M4S)" "Peter Hellinckx" "M4S is the acronym for Modelling For Sustainability and is pronounced as MForce which refers to power we believe modelling will have in the digital world we are about to enter and the necessity to leverage it to reduce discrimination of sustainability goals by economical driven forces. M4S is an applied research team of the faculty of applied Engineering in the domain of Electronics-ICT working closely together with application domains within or outside the faculty to leverage its modelling expertise to reach the sustainability goals and to study the sustainability impact of decisions within the constraints of the different fields including business models, safety, …. Our goal is to model the future to support decision making in different application domains ranging from real time control of autonomous systems towards high level policy making support to reach our sustainability goals within an economic reality and to monitor the impact decisions will have on our future. Our mission is to convince people of our believe that building a sustainable future is a multi-objective optimization problem that given the right weights to both sustainability goals and economic factors will result in a better more sustainable and livable world. We believe that our modelling and optimization expertise together with domains specific expertise can really make a difference. Or to put it differently: ""We believe that this technology will support better decision making to ensure a future for us and our children!""." "Plasma Lab for Applications in Sustainability and Medicine - Antwerp (PLASMANT)" "Annemie Bogaerts" "In the research group PLASMANT we develop numerical models for - gas discharge plasmas, - the interaction between a plasma and a solid surface, and - the interaction between a laser and a solid surface, with the aim to optimize the applications of plasmas and lasers (e.g., in materials technology, analytical chemistry, environmental and medical applications). For the gas discharge plasmas we have developed Monte Carlo models, particle-in-cell Monte Carlo simulations, fluid models, collisional-radiative models and hybrid codes. We investigate various kinds of plasmas, such as direct current (dc), radio-frequency (rf), magnetron and dielectric barrier discharges, in different kinds of gases (argon, helium, nitrogen, methane, silane, CF4, air, CO2,...). We describe the behaviour of different kinds of plasma-species (e.g., electrons, ions, radicals, atoms, molecules, excited species, as well as nano-particles). The interaction between a plasma and a solid surface (which is important e.g., for the deposition of thin films or for plasma catalysis) we try to describe by molecular dynamics simulations, in which the trajectory of individual atoms is described by Newton's laws, and the interaction forces between atoms are determined by an interatomic interaction potential. We describe the behaviour of atoms, molecules, radicals and ions, bombarding the surface. In this way, we can calculate e.g., how a thin film is deposited, as well as the microscopic structure and composition of the film. For the interaction between a laser and a solid surface, we develop a set of models, which describe the behaviour during and after laser-solid interaction: - Heating, melting and evaporation of the solid surface by a heat transport equation; - Expansion of the evaporated material plume: by Navier-Stokes equations; - Formation of a plasma in the material plume: by Saha equations; - Formation of nanoparticles: by a model for condensation." "Katharina BIELY" "Milena Bruyninckx" "Yeheng Pan" "Timothy Robeers" "Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)" "Frederic Ang" "Jelle Boeve-de Pauw" EduBROn "Peter Bossier" "Department of Animal Sciences and Aquatic Ecology"