Projects
FWO sabbatical bench fee professor Ruyssen Ghent University
This project investigates the role of access to irrigation as a mitigating factor for migration aspirations following drought. Climate change, marked by increased precipitation variability and severe droughts, adversely impacts agricultural yields, affecting the livelihoods of 700-800 million impoverished individuals reliant on agriculture globally. Migration is viewed as an adaptation strategy, but its large-scale occurrence poses ...
Moral Realism as a Normative Doctrine: Rethinking Politicized Realism. University of Antwerp
Mobilising, harmonising and incentivising forest biodiversity and environmental monitoring data through Web 3.0 technology University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Sofie Pollin: Spectrum sustainability KU Leuven
The electromagnetic spectrum is a crucial but finite resource for modern society. On the one hand, the radio spectrum is used for the ubiquitous wireless communications that we know in the form of cellular (4G and 5G) or Wi-Fi networks, radar applications for our security or weather forecasts, to give a number of examples. In addition, the electromagnetic spectrum is a way to potentially uncover new scientific discoveries. As radio technology ...
Sabbatical Tom Holvoet: Study and verification of vulnerabilities in smart contracts for decentralized software systems in a blockchain environment KU Leuven
During this sabbatical I will take time to thoroughly study the emerging and exciting field of ‘Smart contracts in blockchain environments’ in order to build a solid base for further research. Themes in this research may include: - Permissioned & permissionless blockchain architectures / Web3 application architectures - Smart contract programming paradigms and languages (Solidity and Vyper) - Vulnerabilities in smart contracts (Solidity ...
Sabbatical Steven Bouillon: Biogeochemistry of tropical wetlands KU Leuven
The main goal of this sabbatical is to strengthen and revigorated our key research niche, i.e. studying the biogeochemistry of tropical aquatic systems using state-of-the-art analytical techniques. My research combines a focus on tropical aquatic ecosystems, and the use of stable isotope proxies to study element cycles across a range of ecosystems – from highland streams to rivers, lakes and reservoirs, floodplains, down to the coastal zone. ...
Sabbatical Simon Brumagne: Ex oriente Lux KU Leuven
Setting up and participating in the study “Proprioceptive impairment in individuals with and without sacro-iliac dysfunction” in collaboration with Koji Kaneoka (Waseda University, Tokyo) and Hiroshi Akuzawa (Niigata University of health and Welfare, Niigata, Japan). Visit to the research facilities of Julie Hides, Griffith University and Paul Hodges, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, to further mature the concepts of ...
Sabbatical Siegfried Dewitte: In search of an increase in effectiveness of behavioral insights in stimulating desirable behavior. KU Leuven
In recent years, my team and I have conducted research into the effectiveness of behavioral insights for stimulating desired behavior in areas of social importance such as healthy eating, economical energy consumption, active and green mobility, and green investments, using a wide range of methods. such as laboratory experiments, field experiments, surveys, observational studies, qualitative research, and combinations of these. During this ...
Sabbatical Ewald Janssens: metal clusters for catalysis KU Leuven
The reactivity of small metal clusters differs radically from that of bulk materials because the atoms in a cluster have a lower coordination number, the concentration of reaction centers is high
and the electronic band structure has not yet been developed. Not only does the electronic structure vary dramatically with cluster size and composition, unexpected properties such as the occurrence of selective catalytic oxidation on gold ...