Projects
Effective theories of the Cosmology of Microscopic Physics. KU Leuven
My research proposal aims to develop new, more efficient theories of large-scale properties of the universe by exploiting situations where there is a large hierarchy of physical scales. Just like in atomic physics, where we need only know a few basic properties (i.e. mass, charge) of a nucleus -- but no specific knowledge about the underlying quarks and gluons -- to describe the physics of the hydrogen atom, I hope to consider the cosmology ...
Electrochemical synthesis of metal nanostructures. University of Antwerp
An experimental and theoretical study into the competition between halogen bonding and hydrogen bonding. University of Antwerp
Separation of rare earths by homogeneous liquid-liquid extraction with functionalized ionic liquids. KU Leuven
Electrochemistry of liquid metal salts. KU Leuven
Chemisorption reaction mechanisms for ruthenium atomic layer deposition (ALD): an atomistic insight. KU Leuven
In this thesis, we have explored and applied different computational techniques, i.e. density functional theory (DFT), multiconfigurational perturbation, coupled cluster, and density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods in order to solve different chemical problems of transition metal (TM) complexes.
In gas phase, we have established a general procedure using high-quality ab initio methods to efficiently study binding energies of ...
Molecular Electron Momentum Spectroscopy and Orbital Imaging beyond the Plane Wave Impulse and Binary Encounter Approximations Hasselt University
The study of HIV-1 uncoating by super-resolution imaging of fluorescently labeled capsid. KU Leuven
Single-virus fluorescence experiments provide a powerful tool to study the HIV-1 replication cycle, which is characterised by fast and transient events, essential virus-host interactions and an overall heterogeneous nature. Specific labelling of a viral protein of interest without inhibiting viral infectivity allows to monitor individual steps of the replication cycle in space and time. In this thesis, we aimed to investigate the fate of both ...