Projects
RevalExo: a wearable lower-limb exoskeleton that assists activities of daily living and enables data-driven remote rehabilitation KU Leuven
The objective of this project is to research basic strategic concepts for 1) a wearable lower-limb exoskeleton for gait-impaired or elderly persons, which can be worn comfortably throughout an entire day and used independently by the patient in a home setting, and 2) a rehabilitation assessment tool for remote follow-up by healthcare staff, based on information from multi-modal sensors integrated in the exoskeleton.
Engels KU Leuven
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a hereditary, progressive and lethal multi-organ disorder affecting 85,000 people worldwide. CF is caused by mutations in CFTR, which codes for a chloride/bicarbonate channel in the apical membrane of (airway) epithelial cells. Over 2000 CFTR mutations have been described of which 432 disease-causing. Potentiators and correctors have been market approved to functionally correct about 40 different mutations, accounting ...
Timed dendrite-axon routing of mitochondria enables successful repair in the injured central nervous system KU Leuven
Neural insults and neurodegenerative diseases typically result in permanent functional deficits and represent a growing social and economic problem in our aging society. As the central nervous system of adult mammals only has a limited regenerative capacity, identifying cellular and molecular mechanisms that enable neuronal regeneration forms a critical step towards designing future pro-regenerative therapies. Within this project we aim to ...
Individual behaviour and extra-utilitarian ethics in health economic evaluation: an individual-based modelling approach for measles elimination. University of Antwerp
The Media-Tourist: 'Mediation', Image-Making, and Enchantment in Tourists' Experiences of Antwerp, Naples and Helsinki. University of Antwerp
The "Nepantla" generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. KU Leuven
Research Project. The Nepantla generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation os Spanish exiles in Mexico Ghent University
The project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts written by the children of Republican exiles in Mexico. This so-called Nepantla generation, after the Nahuatl word for “between two worlds”, is characterized by its complex and multiple cultural identity. Through a discourse analysis of the essays of a representative sample of authors from this generation, we examine how these ‘Hispanic Mexican’ writers managed to construct ...
Towards a diachronic typology of the middle voice KU Leuven
The middle voice is a complex linguistic domain, as it lies at the interface between morphosyntax and the structure of the lexicon. A typical example of a middle marking language is Dutch, in which the ‘reflexive’ pronoun zich in fact behaves as a middle marker, as it is used either lexically with verbs that only occur with the reflexive, e.g. zich vergissen ‘be mistaken’, or to derive reflexives from transitive verbs, e.g. zich(zelf) slaan ...
Engelse beschrijving Title: Characterization and Treatment of Body Odor Ghent University
The aim of the project is to obtain a thorough understanding of body odor development and to find solutions against it. A bacterial transplantation in the armpit was proposed as alternative and possible lasting solution. This project will further fine-tune the transplantation technique. Many optimizations will be verified and focus on the steering towards a good & nonodorous axillary microbiome.