Projects
Conservation ecology of the threatened damselfly Lestes macrostigma: an integrated life cycle approach KU Leuven
Insects are the fastest declining group of species and among the most threatened by anthropogenic activities. However, they are largely overlooked in conservation policies and conservation research. Wetlands have greatly declined over the last centuries and continue to face important threats, impacting all sectors of biodiversity, including insects. Odonates (damselflies and dragonflies) are valuable indicators of wetlands’ conservation ...
Evolutionary-ecological study of the synergistic (bio)pesticide cocktails on the mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus and its competitor the water flea Daphnia magna KU Leuven
Natural populations are increasingly facing multiple stressors. Their ability to deal with interacting stressor combinations will be crucial for their local persistence. Populations of target species are typically exposed to pesticide mixtures and natural stressors, and are increasingly developing resistance to single pesticides. Nevertheless, we have poor knowledge whether natural stressors and the presence of pesticide resistance shape ...
Dynamics and change of 19th century intergenerational death clustering: an international comparative analysis. KU Leuven
Nonequilibrium graph theory KU Leuven
The main question of the PhD work is to investigate how nonequilibrium gravitational degrees influence physical processes in the early epoch of the universe. The PhD research will first focus on the early universe and ask the question how gravitational degrees of freedom have formed a nonequilibrium background or medium for the matter and energy evolution of the universe. One first hypothesis that needs to be sharpened and verified concerns ...
Radiation Hardened Aging Resilient Digital Integrated Circuits in Nanoscale CMOS Technology KU Leuven
long-term reliability of recent CMOS technologies is impacted by different intrinsic degradation mechanisms that progressively alter their electrical characteristics (BTI, HCI, TDDB...). Due to the ongoing aggressive scaling process, those mechanisms exhibit significant dispersions related to the process details and variability. The parametric evolution induced by those mechanisms constitutes a reliability risk, both directly, by compromising ...
High-throughput field phenotyping using a drone with RGB imagery. Exploiting the spectral, spatial and temporal dimensions KU Leuven
Altered climatic conditions leading to more frequent and intense abiotic events (e.g. drought or heatwaves) and biotic stresses (pathogens and pests) are going to impact on our food system endangering the access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food. To mitigate the negative effects, the adaptation of crops to future climate has to go also hand in hand with an increase in global crop production in order to achieve the estimated demand for ...
Coulomb excitation studies with radioactive ion beams from HIEISOLDE KU Leuven
The major fraction of the visible mass of the universe is situated in the nucleus of the atom: the heart of the matter. This nucleus is a compact object made of protons and neutrons (so-called nucleons) that interact through the strong and the electromagnetic force. Together with the electrons, that surround the nucleus at large distances, it constitutes the atom. While hydrogen (one proton surrounded by one electron) and helium atoms were ...