Projects
A high-resolution and high-sensitivity hybrid small animal PET-CT system for combined molecular/functional and anatomical preclinical imaging in neurology, oncology and cardiology. KU Leuven
Molecular imaging allows non-invasive in vivo visualization, characterization and quantification of biological and pathophysiological processes that can be longitudinally monitored in specific (transgenic) animal models of human diseases in a physiological environment. The hybrid small animal PET-CT system will provide molecular information with high sensitivity and submillimeter resolution co-registered with anatomical information within one ...
Evolution and ecology of zoonotic wildlife pathogens. University of Antwerp
The evolutionary ecology of manipulative and deceptive signals in insect societies KU Leuven
Animal communication signals typically evolve because of a shared interest between the signaling and receiver individuals. In the present project, I will make the first systematic empirical and theoretical study of another class of signals, where the receiver instead is partly manipulated or “deceived”. To do so, I will use insect societies as my key model system, and study how four classes of manipulative signals that have been previously ...
Trajectories of newly emerging evolving metacommunities – an interdisciplinary research project in empirical ecology and biostatistics KU Leuven
Recent efforts to unravel the assembly of species communities have resulted in limited amounts of explained variation, suggesting that important processes are overlooked and that statistical methods to detect these processes are lacking. This project capitalizes on a unique opportunity provided by a nature restoration project, where several clusters of new ponds are being created. From their creation onwards, all ponds will be subjected to ...
Prioritizing Lyme borreliosis risk areas for forest and nature management based on novel insights in tick ecology. University of Antwerp
The interplay of conditional movement and size specific ecology for eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatial populations Ghent University
The project aims to study how conditional movement and local demographics determine the eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations. It will integrate advanced conditional movement ecology and state-of-the-art size structured population theory with spatial population ecology and life history trait evolution. The research program will combine individual level measurements, multi-generational population and selection ...
Interactions between natural stressors and pollutant exposure in nestling birds of prey: Feathers as a novel integrated measure of pollutant exposure, feeding ecology and stress. University of Antwerp
From Truth to Ecology Reassessing the History of the Senses, 1250-1750 KU Leuven
This project investigates the paradigm shift from truth to ecology that occurred in perception theories from 1250 to 1750 – in the period, namely, from the adoption of an Aristotelian curriculum by European universities to the Encyclopédie. In the course of the Early Modern age, I argue, the time-honoured Aristotelian claim that the senses provide insight into the real properties of bodies was replaced by a quite different understanding of ...